I'm a 15 year old girl, who likes programming. I code in my freetime (also as my job at this point) and I enjoy it quite a lot. I also coded this website you're on right now!
I started my apprenticeship as a software developer at the swiss bank Credit Suisse in August 2022. So coding is my job now. As I said, I enjoy it quite a lot. Aside from coding, I do a lot of other things. One of thse things is learning new stuff/skills. As an example, I watch lots of documentaries about various things. I recently wrote a book, which also took me a lot of time. You can download the book at the end of this page. On Saturdays, I usually go out with my boyfriend. As I said, I just started my apprenticeship so I also spend a lot of time with that. In summer I like to inlineskate. I'm doing that since a few years now and it has always been pretty fun.
My skills in coding:
HTML was the first programming lauguage I learned. I learned it at the beginning of June 2021. A good friend of my dad taught me how to code with it. I picked everything up pretty fast and started coding by myself really fast. I coded lots of websites, but I never published them anywhere. Who knows, maybe in future you'll be on a website that I coded!
With HTML, I also learned CSS, I mean somehow I had to style my websites. I've tried a lot with CSS, like really a lot. I still wouldn't say that I know everything, but I definitely know a lot.
Once I had enough of HTML and CSS, I started learning JavaScript. It was the next smart move towards FrontEnd Developer. At first, I didn't get anything, like absolutely nothing. I read a lot about it but I just didn't understand anything. It was harder than I expected. After lots of reseach, I asked for help. My boyfriend taught me the absolute basics and I started coding the same thing over and over again, until I started learning Java.
After learning Java, JavaScript was much easier to understand. That's when I actually understood what I was doing and how everything worked.
In school, my teacher made a Java course for everyone who was interested. I was lucky enough to get into it. That's when I learned the basics of Java. To be honest, at some point, I was only in that course because I had to. I coded a lot at home with Java. I did easy stuff in school, just for practice and at home I did the harded stuff. And if I didn't know how to do something, I asked my teacher, which was really helpful.