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Since my childhood I used to do so many things using my brothers computer. I learnt lot from him.I really loved to see his coding stuffs. After completing my Advanced level exams, I wanted to become a software engineer.So this is how that I realized Iwanted to learn to code.๐๐โ
I had a fascination in computers long before I even knew coding was a thing people could do.
I'm 33 years old, and I really think coding wasn't on the radar of anyone in my life as something to even bother telling me was a thing. But every time I stumbled across some knowledge of how computers did what they did and what could be done, I really loved it!
I worked as a full time nanny for years and wanted to be challenged in a different way. I then realized that I enjoyed coding because it felt like a frustrating puzzle ๐
When I was studying Japanese I had to do an internship, which I did at the Japanese department of University of Vienna by hosting the website. Together with a colleague we had to create a WordPress site for the "150 years Japanese and Austrian relation" celebration where a professor needed a platform for her lecture. The designing, the meetings, the talks about how we could best achieve her goals - it was so fascinating that I was sure that after graduating I want to learn how to code.
I didn't want to do my marketing job anymore because over the years I realized that I'm more of a tech person than a KPI addicted business student robot
When an interviewer asked about my knowledge of HTML for an Instructional Designer position that I applied. Unfortunately, I didnโt get the job, so here I am.
In August 2015, I saw a job posting for Skillcrush. I got curious so I checked out their website and signed up for their newsletter. At the time, the newsletter sent daily e-mails when you first signed up with activities and information about tech.
Day 3 was when I wrote my first line of code. It wasn't very fancy, but that line of code is where I realized tech is the right fit for me. Shortly after that I signed up for their free coding bootcamp and did research. That's what helped me decide to learn how to code and shortly after that I enrolled in Skillcrush's web designer blueprint cohort.
My child inspired me to jump into it! She has been learning front end development and I was literally watching and learning everyday! For a couple of years I have learned some coding and taught elementary and middle school students from the Hello World Little Bits Coding kits to Girls Who Code groups.
Freshman year of college, needing to fill up my schedule so I decided to try computer science 1, since I had always been into tech stuff, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ended up majoring in CS and also getting a masters in it.
I used to make websites as a teen, but because there weren't any coding/computer classes at my school, I ended up pursuing art. Now as an adult who graduated from art school, I still want to make websites, and there's so much information online that I can self-teach! Learning how the internet works and how to make dynamic websites is so interesting and complex
I wanted to have a website to write a personal blog and showcase my photography hobby photos.
So I browsed everything about WordPress. Then I stumbled on freeCodeCamp, tried it out, saw "Hello World" rendered with HTML for the first time, and never look back โบ.
I used to hate coding a lot, but I noticed that I didn't really give up on it. So I suspect it might be true love (I'm a physicist!)
I'm a creative and have been a graphic designer for many years. I want to be able to build the sites I design.
This question hurts a little because I always thought that programming required calculus-level math. I was told by people who knew less that I wasn't learning what was required and it really put me off (this was back in HS/2004-6). Learning that it's not true re-ignited my interest.
I always liked messing with web code, but I didn't see it as programming. I wish I had a better mentor in my early days but now that I know more, I can't wait to get started!
I also want to learn how to code so that I can de-mystify it for others and be a mentor for others in the future as well.
Hi Alexander!
I'm glad you were able to re-ignite your interest in programming. I had been thinking about learning to code for about two years but I also had the misconception that you needed to be proficient in higher level math. Math was never my favorite subject. It wasn't until I started looking into bootcamps and reading reviews from people that transitioned from careers like retail to software developers that I was like "hey, maybe I can do it too." And now I'm doing it!
It's awesome that you want to give back and de-mystify it for others, can't wait to see what you do!
It was during the Covid 19 lockdown. I was having a bit of existential crisis. I tried a lot of things until i came across Sololearn. The courses were very easy and fun so I just continued. And that's how my love for coding started๐