Hello everyone. I think we'd all agree, someone's first time learning software development can be a little strange. And certainly, peoples software development learning journeys are as varied as their thumbprints.

Often, there are interesting stories connected to our early dev days. These stories can be helpful to new developers.

For me, the way I got started was a little crazy and spontaneous. One day, on a whim, I just decided to see how hard is was to make a website. I got into WIX and had a very bad experience, but I still wanted to make a website. I wondered how hard it would really be to learn to hard code one, so I started the freeCodeCamp HTML and CSS curriculum. After three days, I decided that I liked this very much, and it was what I wanted to do for a living, and it went from there.

Now I like programming better than frontend, but frontend was where it all started.

How about the rest of you? Would any of you oblige us by posting any of your own "learning to code" stories below as comments?