Journey to programming

Martin Sidorov
10 min readJun 18, 2021
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I started my journey as a software developer 4 years ago. I remember the struggle in my first couple of years, and some of them still continues. Everything from coding to process is new for me. I’ve met a few mentors who made this journey easier. Yet, there were lessons I learned the hard way. I having fun journey, and all is possible whenever you want it.

Journey beginning

When all asked me to whom I want to become in the school, and as I remember from 7th grade I always wanted to become programmer, but I don’t remember why exactly I picked this way, maybe just because of working with computers, or because I love to play video games, but anyway this was my goal and it never changed.

All this started in college as a Junior Software Developer. While I studied I saw that I can’t understand some stuff, and I started to investigate where I could improve my skills with programming, find some exercises, courses or something from it, and got into Sololearn. In Sololearn I liked the way how it was presented, always were some tests after learning material of one language, and many other languages to choose. I learned some basic HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, PHP, jQuery, C#, and other stuff that was interesting, then I think I learned all the content that was there, because on that version of application there wasn’t so many stuff to learn. But I also wrote…

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Martin Sidorov
Martin Sidorov

Written by Martin Sidorov

A passionate Software Engineer from Estonia

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