How I learned coding

 

How it started and how it going ?

how I learn those things ? what brings me here ? 

When I was 11 years old (in 2017), my father bought me a Dell brand laptop. Initially, I only knew how to open the Paint app, draw, and add colors. I was also clueless about saving my work or opening documents on a PC. A few months later, my mother enrolled me in a computer course where I learned Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Paint. As a result, I received a certificate of basic computer skills. By the way, I had forgotten to tell my father that I had an old Windows XP computer when I was around 4 or 5 years old. I used it occasionally, clicking around and using the Paint app. Haha, I don’t know much about it. My father used it for typing documents. 


A few years after I started exploring YouTube (YouTube wasn’t popular in Sri Lanka at that time), I learned so quickly that I not only understood how to create folders, what IT and web were, and how to use apps, but I also learned Photoshop from a teacher who taught me Photoshop Illustrator. My interest in ICT began to grow.

covid changed our life, we become more closer to technology specially covid introduced technology to Sri Lankans

Then first time I have curious about how to make a website , ha ha that was the turning point that was year 2019 ...

I searched about it on Youtube , and I also created youtube channel for fun and I uploaded videos there for myself ha ha don't watch this videos it's embarrassing 

Then, I learned HTML and created a website using it. However, I didn’t stop there. I delved deeper into the fundamentals of HTML and spent two years learning it thoroughly. After that, I learned CSS and experimented with various web creation applications like Wix, WordPress, and Blogger.

I then created my first website using Wix, www.ranjansgroup.com, for my uncle. I earned around 8000 LKR from that project. At the same time, I also began learning a bit about JavaScript. However, I had no knowledge of backend development at that time. I learned and gained experience for over three years, from 2020 to 2023.  In this time period I bought MacBook air 2020

Another turning point in my life was taking the web design course offered by the Open University or Moratuwa. During that time, I made many good friends. I also learned about JavaScript, GitHub, Vercel, Firebase, and how backend hosting and domains work. I created a website for my dad, www.combinedmaths.org.

Before that, I had tried to create my own website, but I still don’t have one. In 2024, I delved deeper into databases, Firebase, and PHP. 

In this time Chat GPT is trending in Sri Lanka I also started to used that , I got lot of helps there I started new era of my life in 2024 , 



In next blog post I'll tell how I created Findaguest 


Blog by : Dineth Gunawardana (Owner and creator  at findaguest.online)

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