👩🏻 The 1st Month Of My Self-taught Coding 🤓 💪 Was it worth trying??

Hello, Steemit. I am absolutely amazed and flattered by the amount of support I've received. And just wanted to say...

You guys are awesome 😁❤️

So, today I wanted to share my experience on how I just started to learn programming, which I never even dreamed of doing before... To be real, I am not a tech-girl or tech-person, so it never occured to me that I would just pick-up coding and start teaching myself.

But during the end of my gap-year, when I had lots of time on my hands, I would usually surf the net to teach myself something about business and finance (since I wanted to do BBA); there were lots of online courses and on specific programming languages, but I always scrolled past them. One day my little brother suggested me: "Why don't you start teaching yourself how to build a mobile app?"

And I liked his idea because, since I was a little girl, the animations, be it on TV or on phone, were the source of my happiness (like any kid 😆 ) and secondly, after a long time of "avoiding" the so-called coding, the curiosity had been built up enough to want to take a glimpse on what was all this hype about.

So, I did a quick research on Google to get the most basics of programming and to find out which language I need learn in order to build an app.😋 After the research I got all excited😆 🔥 and decided that Lua language would be suitable for me as a beginner; I searched for its tutorial on youtube and started to watch it.😊

And it was boring af😃

"What the hell, I could sleep, just by seeing this?!" I thought. "Was it not worth trying after all?"😔

I then turned to Udemy.com a different website, where there are many non-univesity online courses, unlike others. After thoroughly comparing few courses I bought one for $10.

This one was published by the boy, who was same age as me and who started his app business since he was 14 or something.


In one of his introductory videos he wrote one line of code, which quickly created a red rectangle on the display. At this exact moment, I got butterflies in my stomach and felt a strong urge to learn this shit.

To be continued...