Why I’m learning to code

Nurudin Mudhir
3 min readJan 21, 2021

& why you should or shouldn’t do it

Photo by Roman Synkevych on Unsplash

Coding is not for everyone, I learnt this when I first attempted to learn how to code.

I was so confident that I was going to learn how to develop an application that nothing was going to stop me. I bought my Udemy course, pilled up the coffee and grabbed my beats headphones and every day I had a crack at it.

I got through the basics and developed my first 2 mock applications — My goal was to be invited to WWDC by apple as a new developer (you can tell I’m an Apple fanboy) and nothing was going to stop me.
I faced roadblocks and overcame them, then life hit and I stopped coding for like 5 months. Every day I wasn’t coding was burning me inside — but I was facing some big things in life at the time so I gave myself some slack.

I then started coding again however with a whole different mind frame, It was no longer something I wanted to do, but was going to do for the foreseeable future.

What I learnt:

  • Coding is not easy — it’s as difficult as learning a new language (you will pull your hair out)
  • It takes more than commitment — it takes loyalty & perseverance
  • Most people who are coding today started somewhere
  • Allow yourself to…

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Nurudin Mudhir
Nurudin Mudhir

Written by Nurudin Mudhir

Navigating my way through this lecture of self-consciousness, with an afternoon break of self-confidence and a tutorial on self-belief.

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