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Discussion on: A beginner’s journey into software development in Nigeria.

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Nwajei Gideon

Absolutely true. Not to talk of how extremely difficult if you happen to be a student.
I am a student currently in my final year and I tell you our school system here chokes to till you almost drop, guess that's why some people drop out when they can't cope any longer.
Data is extremely expensive, you manage to pay for a month subscription but it only last a week or less.

I learnt web development about 3 years ago but after learning it was like there was nothing more to it, I mean it's hard to find a vibrant web Dev community or work on local web Dev projects/jobs since most people here don't even know how important it is to have a website. That and other long list of factors actually discouraged me in fact I stopped coding for the past 3 years, just started picking up the pace some months back.
Truth is the pains and struggles we face as upcoming developers in Nigeria can not be explained with words alone cause if one try to explain, it might take forever.
May God help the Nigerian developers. Amen.