How do I see the world of programming?

Tahseen Zahra — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:46:21 +0000

What is programming to me?
I feel programming from a different perspective it is something that motivates me as far as I go deep into it. It drove me to different dimensions. The world of programming is pure, whenever one of us learn something even it is creating a simple HTML file containing headings and paragraphs all others appreciate it. Which generates a spark in ourselves.

What I gained from it?
Besides getting appreciation from the surrounding whenever I complete any task I get extremely overjoyed. The thing that I love about programming world is the feeling of pleasure that jump into myself whenever I get the solution of the problem or my code starts working. Learning even a single tag or property gives me encouragement and self-confidence.

When did I fall into love with programming?
I was a student who never loved studying computer science before September 2019. Before that, I just use my PC for watching movies or sometimes looking at childhood pictures.
Before starting my university, I was not having an educational task, searched for free courses of “Computer Science” on top there was “CS50 Introduction to Computer Science”. “Oh introduction, I should do it as I don’t know anything about computer science...”, I said to myself.
As I got into the course I realized I started loving programming and this is just because of David J. Malan. His way of teaching is marvellous. Even solving problem sets took me more than a week but every second I spent on them taught me a new lesson.
My first Hello, World code.

What am I doing now?
Knowing that I love doing programming I decided to choose computer science as my undergraduate course. Till now I have learned the basics of HTML, CSS, js, C and C++ and currently, I’m working on tasks related to HTML and CSS to improve my coding skills as my side work and in the institute, I am learning c++.

My Hacktoberfest Journey :)

Tahseen Zahra — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 11:17:10 +0000

I’m a newbie towards programming. I was introduced to this field in September 2019 when I started a CS50 course “Introduction to Computer Science” besides, I also learnt the basics of HTML from w3school.

I came to know about Hacktoberfest in the same year. So jumped into it to participate. Watched tutorials to get guidance on how I could participate. The interface of GitHub was just passing over my head. While trying to understand what Github is I forked one of the repositories by an accident, but could not understand what is it, what I have done… I was confused throughout October, and often visited GitHub's and Hacktoberfest's website and my feelings were like standing in the ground alone staring at the things there and then returning back. And then on 22 October, my classes at university started and I got busy into that… now just having the idea that Hacktoberfest is about contributing to others code, I left it behind.

This year in 2020 I got an email regarding Hacktoberfest as a reminder. I decided to do the best and take part in it. Still, I didn’t know how to use the GitHub. Started my search again after my last exam on 29th of September and luckily found one of DevTips video on the workflow of Git in which everything was clearly mentioned. This was the turning point. I created my own repository on 3rd of October practised everything I learned e.g how to fork, clone, create the branch and commit it, create a pull request and much more. And here the interesting journey started and I contributed to others repository. It was really fun I enjoyed a lot.
The issues on which I worked were changing the background colour of the website, redesign the footer, add speed testing paragraphs and much more.

Due to Hacktoberfest, my fear to contribute to any open-source projects has vanished.
Here the journey of my first Hacktoberfest ends and I claimed for the T-shirt. But this was just the first step towards contributing to the open-source community and now it will be continued…

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How do I see the world of programming?

My Hacktoberfest Journey :)