Who am I ?

Hello everyone! it has been a while since I posted anything, my life was a bit of a MESS! due to the current situation in my home country Sudan may God be with us, but I will try to keep a weekly base of blogging to share what I have learned through the week with you. Sounds great right?!

OK, In the beginning, who am I and what is my story?

My name is Hassan Siddig (an Arabic name so feel free to mispronounce it) and am currently 20 years old (September the first), I am Sudanese, if you don't know where Sudan is you have Google to assist you. I graduated from high school about 2 years and a half ago and I felt like a free bird and I could do whatever I wanted, I thought about getting financially independent from my parents and starting to make some money to buy the cool stuff I wanted. So how can I do that?

YouTube was saying that either Graphic design or Programming is a good skill to start with especially if you are a college student so I started with graphic design. After about two months of trying it, I figured out that it's a good skill and a good thing to learn anyway but.. it is just not my thing and the competition is on the roof in it (Especially from our beloved Hindi people :) so I thought it was a nice experience but enough. -by the way, you can find a few of my designs in one of my Instagram highlights, I believe it's called 30DaysChallenge-

After that I started to re-learn about programming, and am saying re- because it's not my first time encountering this field, I came across a YouTube video in 2019 talking about "Programming" and that it's the "Skill of the FUTURE!" and all that glitter took me, but it was a horrible trial! the course started with an online IDE (google also if you don't know what an IDE is) and a mobile screen on the website and a cake picture while we tried to center it with some gibberish code I was LOST, now after some learning i believe the language was Java and it was a normal Online IDE, so I forget about programming for about a year (last year of high school).

Back to programming -again- but now with more opened eyes more information and a better English understanding (I took the IELTS test during the vacation), I realized that programming is part of a bigger field of study called Computer Science and people study it in the university and there is a lot of languages to program with, etc ..

Unfortunately, that was after I got into medicine school.. under my parent will. But I thought hey I can do both! so I started studying computer science in my spare time and things went kinda well, but when I get more taught I realized that CS is a whole world that requires a lot of work and dedication, and that medicine sucks.

After the completion of the first year of college, the War in Sudan started (20/04/2023) during Ramadan. I was displaced with my family to a small Sudanese state called Aljazeera. No stable electricity or Internet.

There where my mentality started, no one gonna help you except yourself, you can cry or get up and learn. I started with learning programming using Java book (gonna talk about this in another post) in parallel with some CS areas like computer architecture and operations and algorithms and a lot more, all in its time. Daily for about 6 months until I could travel to Saudi Arabia.

And here I am! no clear future person learning computer science on his own and blogging about this journey that just started and taking you with me through all the steps and lessons and falls.

As I said in the previous post, am learning from the OSSU curriculum and counting my progress using Time Camp.

I think that is enough for today, if you have any questions please feel free to contact me through any of my social media that are listed on the blog home.

See you in the next one ❤️.