This is how I found out gaming is not the only fun thing to do on the computer.
By now I think you all bear with me that technology can dominate the lion’s share of the future. All current happenings depict that technology dominates the future. Making of electric cars, manufacturing of more dangerous weapons, the rapid change in phones, how easily you can connect to someone in another country, buying goods and services securely and fast as possible aided by technology and what have you, the funniest one is taxi airplane which would start operating very soon.
With all these advancements I noticed my continent will not be left out and as a matter of fact in the near future all persons with any skill in technology will not complain about unemployment because you can testify for yourself the dominance of unemployment in Africa is due to lack of skills not laziness.
How it all started.
This motive came to me during my high school days, I had a friend to whom I chat with about life. Do you want his name? Not now, you will know him later, I do not want to lie to about his name.
During one of our conversations, the topic of the future of technology came up and we talked about it and our way through and that was how everything began, as at now he is a ninety nine percent full front-end developer because he was lucky, he had a parent who understood his path and helped him start a bootcamp. But me it the opposite and due to that I feared I could fail also so I followed the normal curriculum thus, after high school, I find myself a job or continue to college, but none of them could even happen.
Despite all these will, I did not have a laptop, yes, I did not have a laptop. And so, I was delayed again and how I got my second laptop is a “do not try at home type”.
How I got my laptop.
The laptop was my second laptop I have had in my lifetime. My first laptop was only used for playing games because I did not know the important of it. It is an hp laptop and it is the one I still use.
One day, I planned on having this laptop and on my side the only way I thought my dad could help buy this laptop was when I am going to college and so I told him very soon I would be going to college so I should start preparing myself and to even start I need a laptop because is one of the most vital element for college and he did not denied so he gave me the money to get the laptop while I had not even planned of going to college so since then he has been looking forward for my call up to college which is not coming soon, “do not try this at home” .
How it is going.
Because none of it could happen, I thought of learning software engineering myself, after the thought, I thought again software engineering was easy, how silly I was thinking that!!
And so, I contacted this my friend was still at the bootcamp because he started the bootcamp even when we had not graduated from high school.
He taught me a nice path to which I could follow to become what I wished to be and the tools which would help me alongside. I downloaded the apps but how to get the knowledge he did not tell because himself is at bootcamp so what can he say again. I understood that and started with https://www.google.com/ that was where I got my primary ideas and jumped unto https://www.youtube.com/ and continued there.
Once, as I was surfing on Instagram, I saw an advert from Peter Ayeni (you can get him on all social media platforms) who wished to organize a free seminar and I hopped on it because I could not afford an online course. After the seminar I realized I was lacking something very important as a beginner and those are more relevant tools to kickstart and I started with him all over again and he has been helping a lot. And as at now, the grind is still on, I try to spend some time on coding every day and it is helping a lot.
Way forward.
The way forward is very simple, I am never stopping or getting tired alongside because I am making this my future and the future of Africa as well.
Do not waste time, just start, and you can start without a laptop as Peter Ayeni used to say anytime.
Follow me as I grind through my programming journey.
