I don't think I was born to be a developer and to be honest I kind of hated it until last year. I didn't get the logic behind all that though I had programming classes in college during my graphic design degree. I was more of an "artist" kid and I thought "heck programming ain't art". I was so wrong but you gotta learn from your mistakes right?
Fast forward to when I dropped out of college (because graphic design was nice but I wasn't into it enough to study it, it was just a hobby), I was looking for opportunities and here in Belgium we have more and more training in programming. I started working as a workshop animator, my subjects of teaching were robotics, gender equality in computer sciences and programming. I fell in love with robotics and got into it. I realized I didn't have the time (now) to do a master in mechatronics and I found a 6 months workshop in mobile development (Android Studio, Xamarin, classes of Java and C# etc...)
Two months into the workshop and I still didn't know why I was there. I was the worst student of my class, not the best feeling if you ask me.
But then we started Android Studio and it was like a realization, a "click" in my mind.
I loved it, I loved the fact that I could try it immediately on my phone or on many devices through the virtual devices. Though with the web and so on you can also see a result, here I was mindblown by how dynamic, fun and creative it was. Though I am learning other things through my workshop (Xamarin and so on), I'm still working on my Android app. Best of all, I got an internship in the company I absolutely wanted to work for ! And I came to the interview with the shittiest code I've ever written but it was mine, and I did it will all my determination and need to improve.
So no, I definitely wasn't born a developer but I found my thing in the big pool of all the cool stuff you can do with development and I'm sticking to it. Starting is not easy, especially when you don't know what technology or thing you want to do but once you get it I think you can do wonders! :D
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I don't think I was born to be a developer and to be honest I kind of hated it until last year. I didn't get the logic behind all that though I had programming classes in college during my graphic design degree. I was more of an "artist" kid and I thought "heck programming ain't art". I was so wrong but you gotta learn from your mistakes right?
Fast forward to when I dropped out of college (because graphic design was nice but I wasn't into it enough to study it, it was just a hobby), I was looking for opportunities and here in Belgium we have more and more training in programming. I started working as a workshop animator, my subjects of teaching were robotics, gender equality in computer sciences and programming. I fell in love with robotics and got into it. I realized I didn't have the time (now) to do a master in mechatronics and I found a 6 months workshop in mobile development (Android Studio, Xamarin, classes of Java and C# etc...)
Two months into the workshop and I still didn't know why I was there. I was the worst student of my class, not the best feeling if you ask me.
But then we started Android Studio and it was like a realization, a "click" in my mind.
I loved it, I loved the fact that I could try it immediately on my phone or on many devices through the virtual devices. Though with the web and so on you can also see a result, here I was mindblown by how dynamic, fun and creative it was. Though I am learning other things through my workshop (Xamarin and so on), I'm still working on my Android app. Best of all, I got an internship in the company I absolutely wanted to work for ! And I came to the interview with the shittiest code I've ever written but it was mine, and I did it will all my determination and need to improve.
So no, I definitely wasn't born a developer but I found my thing in the big pool of all the cool stuff you can do with development and I'm sticking to it. Starting is not easy, especially when you don't know what technology or thing you want to do but once you get it I think you can do wonders! :D