Hello ! I'm Lila, a French developer who likes to roller and play video games ! I don't have much to say about my personality or my hobbies, so I rather talk more about how I got into coding and what I've learnt so far. If you are a and unsure about getting into the world of programing or even just IT in general, this one's for you !

Just like you, I had a lot of doubt about getting into this unknown territory and honestly, working in a male dominated field when you're a lesbian who prefers not to deal with men in any context, it kinda sounds like hell. But anyway, my first professional orientation was not doing it for me, and I had to find myself a job to start earning money and be independent.

Apart from college I had worked a bit in retail which was okay for a few months, but not for the long term. I knew I had to find something that would not make it difficult for me to wake up in the morning and something I could easily make a sense of. Something that would help me find motivation and ambition.

Ever since I was little, I was interested in electronics, especially computers, but I never knew anyone who worked in that field, and especially as a girl, it felt like I wouldn't be fit for it, so I simply never thought of it as a potential career.

Until when I was 22 years old and saw a random tweet one day of a girl saying :

And just like that, the idea was planted into my brain, and it started growing days after days, until I decided to do something about it. Luckily enough, I could afford a few more years of studies (merci France's free education system). I got into this school without having ever wrote a single line of code, or knowing what a server was. There, I learned the basics about coding, databases, and languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript (barely), PHP !

This is how it all started. I still feel like i'm just starting. Today, I've been coding for 3 years and a half, I work for a company as a web developer, and I'm also pursuing my master's degree.

I am still using those programming languages today but using more advanced frameworks like Laravel, VueJS, and even managing different types of databases (MySQL, PostGre). If those all sounds like gibberish to you, it's normal. Sometimes the names still make no sense after you've learned the technology.

School is a good way to start getting into IT, I believe you need the academic context and discipline to learn the initial concepts, thankfully those concepts are not numerous in programing. If you can get the discipline by yourself (this is not my case) you can probably try those 6-months online trainings.

Except for the fundamentals concept, anything else you can learn in programing is by practice ! Coding is basically fucking around and finding out until you get the result you want : the more bugs and problems you encounter, the best of a developer you will be. I believe this is because computers are so intricate that you simply don't have the time to learn everything to the point of mastering everything.

A developer that gets it all on the first try doesn't exist! In other words, if you're curious, like to test the limits of things, and like to manipulate parameters to see of things turn out, then you already qualify for IT.

This is a work in progress