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Godwin 'Kachi
Godwin 'Kachi

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Why the zeal persists

It was around 4 years ago that I had the first opportunity to participate in an online coding bootcamp. It was fun and rigourous at the same time with well over 10,000 participant around the world all addressed as 'penguins on a voyage'.

I was on a frontend track where we adopted the FCC (https://freecodecamp.org) and even though I have been doing some self taught coding before then, that was the first time for me to collaboratively work on projects that is reviewed by senior developers called mentors.

While I loved the experience, I soon dropped out of the internship due to pressures from the job that was then paying my bills - don't feel pity for me!

Ever since then, I have always wanted to learn programming and to take it as a full time job - unfortunately, it appears that the only option I have to do so is through online coding bootcamps.

I have tried my hand on various opportunities until I finally settled for the Zuri powered internship (https://internship.zuri.team), a rigorous yet fun-filled coding internship that creates room for both beginners and intermediate programmers to collaborate and build real live solutions.

In its previous iteration which I participated in, I was unable to make it to the finals, but the journey was fulfilling for me, and while I am currently working on changing my department at my place of work, I am hoping that the skills I pick during this current internship will help refresh my skills on programming especially Python (Django).

I have learnt some fundamentals on python like:

Dictionary
Tuples
Data types
Loops
Conditionals etc

Aside Python, another language I seems to be comfortable with is PHP, it was the first tool I was introduced to in the field of programming.

I look forward to the day I will become a CTO of my own IT driven company and until then, I am open to collaborations of smaller projects that will facilitate my reaching that point.

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