COMMITTED TO A JOURNEY
MY JOURNEY INTO TECH
As a newcomer to the development world, I always want to be hyper-aware of the fact that I’ve made my way here through unconventional means. I had no formal education in my field, so I’ve learned almost everything I know from the discovery of others and their free distribution of their knowledge in a palatable form. I want to make sure that I’m both mitigating any disadvantages of that method and contributing to the education of the person behind me who is also on this path.
- I’m not super smart, but I work really hard. Periodically, I’ll run into a friend at tech hub who, upon seeing my code editor, will say something like, “Wow, that looks so intense.” or “I could never do that.” It’s always a bit awkward because I don’t want to downplay what I do as a developer by discounting the skill and experience it takes to understand and write code. However, I always try to encourage that well-meaning friend that, as with most things in life, code becomes less complicated with familiarity. Be careful, though. Familiarity breeds contempt.
- It’s almost impossible to accurately describe what I do. Have you ever explained your technical job to your grandma? After you explain, she’ll almost certainly ask, “Is that with computers?” To some degree, I feel as if this is always my struggle. I’m a developer, but writing code isn’t necessarily my vocation. There’s much more to it than that. I gather and understand complex business requirements for a given project, solve creative and technically-demanding problems, do my best to bridge design and functionality, and I do it all within the limitations of a budget and an often-unrealistic timeframe.
- I’m a developer–not a JavaScript developer. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of learning one library, framework, or even language, and calling myself by that name. I primarily do front-end work, but in the first few weeks of my journey to tech I’ve written scripts in Python (a language I previously had little experience with),Java,c++,c# and Assembly language done quite a bit of front-end work at my leisure with HTML, CSS &JAVASCRIPT and currently acquiring knowledge to be able to build a full-stack React/Node application from the ground up to be used by 100,000+ customers only for me to be lucky being among the cohort v2.2 intern in the well-groomed tech company named LearnFactory Nigeria situated at 44 aba Owerri road Aba, Abia State,Nigeria . With the aid of the company, instructors, It was possibly for me to be cautioned, directed, learn things I know nothing about and become not just a better developer but a better person.
Conclusion
There’s no secret to becoming a developer or to getting a job in tech. (Actually, there might be and I just don’t know it.) In my experience, it’s all about the effort you’re willing to put in.
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