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How I fell in love with programming

21 May 2021   |   Story

It was the end of 11th class, and my IT paper was about to arrive. I wasn't prepard for it at all. But then due to corona the paper was postponed and I was sent from school(residential setup) to home. I came home and thought to myself that I will have to study for IT exam because before that I never really tried to understand programming concepts. I searched on YouTube -- "Python Tutorial" and I found this bald guy with 6 hrs of python tutorial video with over 9 million views.

I clicked on that video -- and that click changed my life -- I followed along the whole course and within two days I completed it. At that ponint I had more than enough knowledge to give my IT exam but I was addicted to programming. I built some projects in python and then I tried a bunch of other programming languages like C++, Swift, Kotlin. I also explored a little bit about game development. I also did freelancing.

Nowadays I am learning javascript. Infact this website is also made with HTML, CSS and Javascript. I like making fun projects and solving problems. So yeah that's pretty much it...Hope you enjoyed the blog.

The importance of doing what you love

20 May 2021   |   Life Lesson

I have always been of the view that you should do what you love. But this thing lacks in our society. People often run after money. They would take a job that they hate for a little more money instead of taking one which they love. According to a research we spend 70% of our lifetime during work (excluding sleep hours). Just think to yourself "do you really want to do something that you hate for 70% of your lifetime?", well I would not want that. Also you would remain frustrated if you do something that you don't like. If you love your job, you will indeed find success and happiness. That's a simple point I am trying to make here. Just follow your passion and chase your dreams.

The feeling of helping others

19 May 2021   |   Story

So the other day I went to the nearby village for some work. As I was riding bike I saw a guy standing on the side of road -- as some vehicle was approaching he would go ahead and ask for lift but no one was giving him lift. One Car nearly hit him. I felt pity for the poor guy.

I stopped my bike to give him lift and he asked me 3-4 times before sitting on the back that if he could sit or not -- as if he was could not believe that someone has stopped their vehicle for him. He wantd to go nearby. On the way he told me that he was going on work and the whole night also he was working and he came home at 5AM and now agian at 6AM his employer called him and he had to go to work again. I felt very bad for him. He only got one hour of sleep. I could see he was very hardworking and was doing everthing he could do to keep his family alive. At last when I dropped him, he thanked 2-3 times again. I felt so good to help him. The feeling of contentment and fulfillment that I experienced by helping him, I cannot describe in words.

The best unwilling purchase of my life

18 May 2021   |   Story

The best purchase of my life is my laptop. My father bought the laptop for me when I was in 11th class. At that time he was in Kuwait(on his duty), he called me and said "I have bought a laptop for you" and I replied "No, I don't want a laptop. There's no use of laptop for me, I can do whatever I want in phone" but anyways, he bought the laptop and at that time It was relly of no use to me because I wasn't doing any programming at all.

But I didn't know what life had hold for me. The same year I got into programming and I would not be able to continue programming without my laptop and I would not have found my passion by now. Also after that I learned programming and did some freelancing by which I earned money, so overall my laptop has paid it off. Though it was an unwilling purchase for me but it turned out to be the best one.