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Curiosity to Creation, Journey as a 16 y/o dev
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Curiosity to Creation, Journey as a 16 y/o dev

via Dev.toAdeolu Ajulo5h ago

When I first saw programming, I didn’t really understand it. I just saw people writing strange words on a screen and somehow computers listened to them. The first thing I ever learned was this: console.log("Hello World") At first it didn’t look like anything special. But when it printed words on the screen, I thought it was really cool. * The Beginning * I have always liked technology and things about the future like AI and robots. I didn’t have the best devices or tools, but that didn’t stop me from trying to learn. So I started watching tutorials and reading things online. Sometimes I understood them, sometimes I didn’t. * Learning Was Not Easy * When I started learning JavaScript, many things were confusing. Things like: functions arrays promises Sometimes my code didn’t work and I didn’t know why. I would stare at the screen for a long time trying to find the mistake. But slowly it started making sense. Small Projects To practice, I started building small things. I made things like

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