Hello Dev Community,
I'm Mahmoud Abdelkarem, a Mechanical Engineer on my way to switching careers to Frontend Web Development.
I wanted to make a post here asking for tips on how to efficiently make that jump, and I'd also love to hear your personal experience as well if you made a similar decision.
A short bit about me:
I started learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And started building small projects with what I picked up from different resources.
Although it's taking a lot of effort so far, I'm enjoying it, especially when I see the results.
I was 19 years old the first time I tried to get into programming, I took a C language course, but it was difficult for me for some reason.
Maybe the language is too difficult for beginners or maybe because the instructor kept repeating the sentence: "as we know" and we didn't actually know.
Anyway, I gave up then and decided to continue with my study. First-year at college, I studied python, and it was so fun using Analytical thinking and logical chart. Although I understood the basics and enjoyed studying it, as a mechanical engineering student, I got too far from programming.
Through college years, I couldn't get back and try one more time in the field where I found my passion; Software Development. And after graduation, I started a career as a mechanical engineer.
I quickly realized that this is not the right career for me and that I would never enjoy working in it as much as I did with programming, so I started to get back to what I enjoyed doing.
I started learning HTML, and I was amused when I started using it to build a webpage. Then I started learning CSS, and I found what was messing with "the style" part.
And now, I'm learning JavaScript, and with that, I found what completes the webpage "The functionality"
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