My respect for those who have gone ahead in tech
Published: 2023-03-26 20:45:38

    A good place to start this post will be to use a dear friend of mine as the case study here. Whenever we are out somewhere and she sees a car, all she ever talks about is how sleek the car looks. It is always about the external features of cars for her as an individual, and many ladies that I have met are largely like that. But for someone who is into what is under the hood of a vehicle, you know that the internal parts of any vehicle play a vital role in what happens to the exterior. In engineering, for example, you learn more about the internal combustion engine, the transmission system, the hydraulic system, the ignition plug, the brake system, the fuel ratio, the general maintenance of engines and many other kinds of components that are not visible externally in vehicles. 
    You know, it really takes one who has adequate knowledge of what goes on inside a vehicle to fully appreciate what he sees physically in a vehicle. Take for example, I personally pay close attention to how the engines of automobiles sound on a good day, This helps me to give a mental assessment of the quality of the car as a whole. The things that are hidden have a great impact on the things we see and admire. This same analogy here goes with programming! I think I never really paid much attention to many things about how browsers, applications, and software worked until this period of my life.
    Nowadays, I have learnt to go deeper into how a number of things work on the internet, and by default, I appreciate the work of developers more now. In fact, I am always scrutinizing websites to see how I can do the same kinds of stuff that the developers have done and to see ways of doing them my own way. These days, I look at websites or applications and I literally phase out and see how to implement the markup languages I`ve been learning so far, HTML and CSS to be precise. Even for anyone who is not a developer that is reading this post or any other website, all you will see are things like the fine background images, the fine colours, the fonts and so on, but I see markup languages by looking at pages and applications nowadays.
    The past few days have been all about checking my HTML/CSS files for the personal Web page I've been working on because there is a mistake somewhere,  which I'm yet to decipher. One vital thing that I've learnt about coding is the fact that coding is all about solving problems. I mean, what else will you do in coding if you don't solve problems? Well, I am currently facing a major one, which has been overwhelming. At some point in time, I thought about running away from full-stack web development; and going into something else. But I refuse to quit this whole thing. There can be only one winner in this coding, and it's going to be me. I'll win in grand style.
    In all honesty, I still feel like I am yet to get the full grasp of what HTML&CSS are about, after spending more than a month on both topics. I am not yet satisfied with what I've learnt so far; because I feel like there is more work to be done. I have literally covered all there is to cover in Angela Yu's HTML/CSS course, and I am quite unsatisfied with what I have learnt. The next thing to do by default is to go on with the "Bootstrap" topic, seeing as it is the next item on the brochure of the two courses I have from Andrei Neagoie and Angela Yu.
    Perhaps this may sound weird but I still feel the need to add Steele Colt's Web development course to my library and go through the HTML/CSS section yet again, before I decide to go ahead with the Bootstrap topic or not. Well, it is a new week, and it comes with its own specific goal for me. I must finish the HTML/CSS section of Steele Colt's course as soon as possible; because I need to move on in this tech journey anyway.
    I remember my mindset towards tech back in November when I conceived the idea of this tech journey. I had it in mind to rush through everything and be done with any course before the end of the first quarter of the year 2023, but the first quarter of the year is literally over, and there is this surge of contentment in my heart. The rush to complete a tech course has disappeared somewhere along the line, and I am now more concerned about having a solid foundation in the line I have chosen. Nothing beats having a solid foundation, and if tech is the future for the years to come, then having a rock-solid foundation won`t be out of place for me.
    Nevertheless, the past month in this tech journey has helped me to appreciate many things that I never placed much value upon. Now I know a bit of what it means to develop a fully functional site, and it is really a deep line of work. Props to all of you that are already well established in the field ❤.

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