How I became a developer.
Here I want to share with you the story of myself being developer.
• How I decided to become a developer?
I don’t remember a moment when I realized that I want to enter to IT industry, but I remember that I’ve always said “I want to work with computers or with gadgets”, in short: everything that I’ve found interesting for me during that period. So I’ve started to live with that ideology and it caused me become an IT person.
• How did I learn programming?
At first, when I was 16 I did nothing but learned Mathematics and Physics to be admitted to a university and to study computer science (CS). I’ve been a quick learner, and it’s helped me to gain enough knowledge in a short time to get into university. Even at that time I didn’t have an idea about IT industry, I didn’t know what type of positions and directions exist. I started to learn programming a year after entering the university.
• The first programming language I’ve learnt?
In the university I’ve started to learn Java and C languages, but I think it’s not a good idea, because this languages are too hard for beginners to understand. I know that C is a “Queen” of programming, but anyway it’s been too hard for me, too. I’ve learnt only very very basic things like IF, FOR, etc. But I still had no idea where I could use it.
Then I learned HTML, CSS, JS in the university after a year. Again very very basic things like to create a link text, a button and onClick function for them. Then we have learnt basics of PHP, MySQL, database structure, how to connect database to your website, etc. In short: university has given me basics of CS, basics of some programming languages and technologies but I couldn’t get a job with that knowledge and had to improve my skills by myself.
• My First job?
When I was 20 years old in the 4th year of the university, I dived deep into HTML, CSS (Youtube tutorials, Google, etc.) and decided to take a Web Development course which I found on Facebook, in one of the local IT companies. After 4 months of learning HTML, CSS, JS and basics of PHP, I got an offer to work in that company as a junior UI developer.
In my next topic I’m gonna talk about my “Junior journey” and how I decided to learn Javascript and become a frontend developer. Make sure you follow me to stay up-to-date.
