My current job has exposed me to a wide range of things I never knew I needed. I'm just an ordinary ICT personnel who people expect a lot from and sometimes I wonder if I am capable of meeting up to those expectations. In 2018 during my 2nd year in the higher institution, I had started learning computer programming, but I never really took it seriously. Perhaps it was because the person my dad paid to teach me then didn't make it as interesting as I imagined it to be. Fast-forward to 2020, I started leaving with friends who were programmers but didn't major in it. They were majorly into Web design, and UI UX and that was how I began my journey professionally as a web designer.
Today, I have discovered that it's best to merge a web designer with a web developer. I'm Better at using third party design tools like WordPress than coding from scratch. I would need to learn a good number of programming language with professional basics in HTML, JavaScript, SQL, C#, and Python. Others can follow, but every developer must have a really good knowledge in these programming languages. Truth be told these programming languages are very expensive to learn and time consuming too. But either way I have only been able to acquire basic JavaScript and HTML knowledge coupled with the C++ programming language I learned in the higher institution.
Today I wish every single day I had the access and time to learn these basic five and others I can only imagine. In recent weeks I've had to deal with pro hackers invading my company's privacy and using our servers. Despite the effort to disrupt the attack, I wish I could build my own firmware and shut them out completely but unfortunately I do not have the skill to do that. I've had to rely on the security WordPress provides as well as a lot of help from my friends with knowledge in ethical hacking. I still try to learn from them, but considering the time I am learning with the activities I have at hand and bills to pay, I must admit it's not the same as it would have been if I was able to learn in 2018 or 2020.