You don't need to feel bad or think otherwise after reading the little experience I had when i started web design (HTML).
When I started html coding, after each lecture I will go to my friends who are expert in html and programming just to rub it to their face that I'm also a programmer , not knowing that I was only fooling myself.
Anytime I learnt new things I'll go to them and do the same thing I have been doing before and they never told me that I was wrong. I kept on doing this every day non stop, until the day I was to present and defend what I've learnt on Web design (HTML). Though I was very good in HTML when I started , I code a lot, and I teach extra classes For those who joined late and my friends who were not in the field of web design but they wish to learn.
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So I had to take them extra lessons and it was fun because I love teaching it helps to know more. So back to my story,
I went to my supervisor’s office , gave him a copy of my report and he asked me to tell him to what i know about web design (HTML). So i started talking giving illustrations and examples, i spoke for some minutes and i stopped.
After talking and saying all that was in my head, my supervisor asked me asked me a question which I failed. He said “is html a programming language?”
I smiled within myself because to me it is a programming language and that's what I've been telling my friends that i’ma programmer.
So with the joy in me I smiled and answered “yes sir, it is a programming language”, to me i was correct but not knowing that there is a bigger problem awaiting me. lol.
My supervisor smiled and asked me another question relating to my answer, “Why is html a programming?”
I was shocked with the question, the expression on my face changed, all my body system changed, i didn't know when water started dropping from my face I was sweating profusely.
I stood over 5 mins without saying a word. My supervisor's smiled and told me to go and do more research and come back for my presentation again.
I went back home that day took my laptop and my phone started researching on why html is a programming language, all i kept seeing is html is not a programming language and reasons why html cannot be considered a programming language.
So i open one of the content read it from A-Z, meanwhile during the time i was reading i laughed uncontrollably because i just knew i have been fooling myself all along. So after reading and digesting all i went to school the next day full of ideas and things i don’t know before, so i went straight to my supervisor’s office to share with him what i learnt from my research. my supervisor was so impressed that he had to give me a good grade.
I went home smiling that very day, knowing that i won’t be fooling myself again and i had good grade.
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