– Farida Kabir – 

A n American author, Norman Vincent Peale, once said, “Believe in

yourself, have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
My name is Farida Kabir and I am a budding computer programmer. I started
my programming journey in the summer of 2017 when I enrolled for the Visiola
Foundation’s Coding Boot Camp for Girls. I had no prior experience. The mere
thought of the word “programming” scared me. I really thought I needed to have
an Einstein type of IQ in order to learn. However, I decided to confront my fear
head-on, taking it one

I started attending classes, and I found myself doing what I thought was
impossible. Within a week, I had a holistic idea about programming and the
basic languages used in web programming, which are HTML, CSS and
JavaScript. At the end of the boot camp, I became a beginner full stack web
developer programming in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. I
realized that coding was as easy as fitting a new harness to an old horse, as easy
as the winter shakes leaves from the trees.