- So i want to share my experience on how i grow my career for the past 4 years on my programming experience and how i got into a career where i do free lancing stuff. I still remember the past from long ago and I want you to inpsire in this article, to enchance your skill, where you will innovate and grow in the IT industry skill related.
When i was a in 5th grade, I'm so interested about computers and games. Where it lead me to love talks about computer and games related. Then suddently there is some group that go to our school, whenever who pass the computer related test. You will get chance to avail or join in their program to learn computer related. I have little knowledge about software and computer that time, due to I'm still new about using the computer. Because we have a computer shop and we manage it for a month that time, since we are new investing to computer shop business. So i take the test and answer all the things that i could answer, but i didn't expect that I passed the test.
Said to the personnel who manage the bootcamp, If i agree and deal with them i can now join to the bootcamp. But suddently we denied the offer, that was big opportunity to me. as a beginner that time who are interested to learn more about computers, that wa a big game changer for my future. But even my parents denied the offer due to financial related, I still do self learning on how to fix the computer and software related.
As time passed by when i reach to 9th grade, the school offers that in 9th grade to 10th grade has a ICT strand which is focus on computer related on troubleshooting and etc. That is where it started to flame my passion that to push this skills to learn more and enchance my capabilities during that time, so I experience more fixing computers and hardware and I love fixing things during that time. Suddently someone told me to learn programming, where it will upgrade my career more in grade 10. But I heard negative feedbacks about programming, where it is hard to learn and etc.
But when I got in 11th grade or grade 11 in philippines or senior high level that was called here. I was still an ICT strand, but the twist we have a programming. Which is i hated that time due to coding is hard and my impostor self, but our prof just laugh at us, because we are like crazy when we heard programmming. Everyone in the class got shock and worried that time. But in the nutshell it is not that really hard, since it was a basic fundamentals about web development. Also we experience programming with java which is in my time is very hard to learn and to understand.
But time goes on, when i try to code and stop copying codes to my classmate. This is where i learned that coding is not bad, you just need time to learn and understand the flow of the program you made. But suddently we have a baby capstone project, where it got intense due to the fact i have no experience creating appplications, just creating a basic program console based.
I forgot that google is my friend, so i search on how to create projects related to solve the community problems in our school. Our capstone title is related to electronic document management system, where it is like a google drive version, but for school purposes only for the school. So i found some trash website and revise the code and added a design and function using PHP, AJAX, JS, and UI framework using bootstrap css.
This is the system that our group created which is the design is very friendly and unique, that the user can understand the flow of the website. It is also connected to the database using MYSQL with xxamp services to run on local host, it can store images and other types of file you and shared with other user same like google drive.
We defended the system and got approved, I would like to thank god for giving me a strength that we finish our capstone project that time. After that when i got to college, this time I got more interested of programming than computer hardware related. Because after i graduated in senior high school, my plann is to get I.T and become an computer technician or IT support. But it change when I deep down on programming. I found out that, This is where i belong or my nitche of my skills.
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