Wednesday, March 22, 2023

My Break into Tech and my first encounter with web development in 2014

 


back in late 2014 when i was 15 years old , i was passionate about making money online, i dedicated my time after school to discover ways or fields to that will help me earn money i discovered a lots of fields like video editing, graphic design, programming, the the one that cached my eye is programming because I've always liked watching movies about programmers and hackers, then i tried to break into the field by developing websites ,i was little bit shock because i needed to learn a tone of information, that when i discovered there was a a blogger trend at that time and you can find easy templates to just upload it on your site and write some articles to gain some popularity and sell the blogger after that, i started doing that, i learned how to edit the basic html of course at that time it wasn't simple to me because i had no knowledge about the fundamentals of html, however
i learned to edit some tags and change img URL by watching some youtube videos, i was happy that i could do something like that.

 after that i started posting daily articles about tech like smartphones news, gaming , the link of the bloggers will be at the end of the article i didn't gain much viewers but i kept posting hopefully i would make my bloggers famous, however it didn't go as planned, after that i knew that i needed to learn a field and be good at it, however due to lack of time because i was still studying at middle school and the homework and everything, i couldn't, that's when i started testing other fields like youtube content creation, i was posting videos about how to fix windows problems and optimize it for better speed, since i was always trying to fix mine because i was the one who also causing issues to my pc due to installing unknown softwares, and  my dad used to help me with that because he had IT background, so he would fix it, if i couldn't.

 all these events were from late 2014 to mid 2015, after that i didn't give up and i was still trying other methods. in mid 2021 while covid lockdowns i started learning web development i started with html and css, i was learning from a very famous developer on youtube called Nour Homsi, i also built some static pages, this part was fun and smooth until i started learning JavaScript which was a whole different level from html and css however it wasn't that hard that i couldn't learn it, i started learning the fundamentals by watching this youtube course by Abdelrahman Gamal i started to learn what variables are and data types, arrays, objects, functions etc ... and how to create a logic that runs on the page, i also learned about JavaScript DOM and how to manipulate it, i built some small projects like html editor and a counter. at that time my friend sent me a platform to help more in this field, its called scrimba,

 its an online platform that's specialized in front-end when you can talk with other students to learn together and also build projects it also taught me the react library, after joining to this platform, i completed some courses there in JavaScript and CSS, then started learning react library it was very interesting and fun because it was easier then learning vanilla JavaScript, and also budling pages and apps were much easier, i learned about functional components, jsx, props, hooks, lifecycles, Api etc... the course was full with challenges because i was learning while building projects. i finished the course with me building 8 projects. and now we reach the current me building solo projects, and i also use git and GitHub to manage my code and uploading to my profile. now im seeking to learn more and more because this field will make you a constant learner and im really happy i reached this far.