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My Story: A Mommy Start To Learn Code From Zero


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I am not a programmer, and I thought I would never become one. Everytime I see someone is coding, I think he or she must be very talent. 

For me, coding is a very difficult subject to learn. Not only the language has so many rules, but also the logical reasoning behind the language is complex. 

In my graduated school, I knew many friends who didn't have any coding background, but they are doing programmer or developer jobs now. Some of them went to school to study coding, and some of them  learned to code by themselves. Their stories are so impressive. 

I wasn't ready to learn code until I finished my first Chinese book "留学，我的青春呀!" recently. I always want to be a writer and write my own book. I started writing blog three years ago, and I updated my post two to three times every week. As I enjoyed writing , I started to get some followers, likes, and good comments on my blog. Then, I decided to plan my first book.

My First Book 


In 2017, I was pregnant, and I was so excited. At the same time, I was also feel nervous and pressure. After my baby came out, I would never have enough time to write my book. In order to accomplish my book, I had to push myself to write at least 4 hours everyday. After spending 5 months on writing, I finally finished my first draft. At that moment, I felt so relief.

After my baby was born , I spent all my time on taking care of this little one. I was too tired to revise my draft. I felt so upset and even depressed at that time. I love my baby as much as I love writing. I didn't want to give up. That book is also my baby.

Thanks God. My baby is such a good boy. After three months, he slept twice in daytime and slept whole night. So, I could revise my book during his sleep time. 

As the baby grows, his nap and sleep time changes. Then, I changes my writing time, too. Day after day, month after month, my book was finally finished and published on Jian Shu and Lofter, where are two popular Chinese blog platforms.

If I can push myself to finish my book, why can't I push myself harder to learn coding? 

So I bought a bootcamp course on Udemy, and started to learn to code as a beginner. In this blog, I would like to share my learning note, thought, feeling, and even mistakes during my study journey.

I don't know whether I can become a programmer or not at the end. It doesn't matter. My goal is to push myself to learn something new and hopefully can have basic coding skills and build a simple website.
 
Wish me luck!
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