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How I went from not knowing how to code to shipping 9 projects in 9 months — all before my 15th…

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I’ve been making (a lot of) things for about a year now. Most of my time is spent hacking, building, and learning. This is the story of how I got started coding. I’ll share how I overcame the challenges of procrastinating and being lost, and how I built nine apps in nine months and discovered what I love doing. It all started with reading books. I really enjoy reading, so I got my Dad to buy me a Kindle — and I loved it! I used it for about an hour every day for the first six months or so. I even wrote a review for it, which got published by a local newspaper ? The 11 year old me had a few ideas to make the Kindle cooler, so I wrote an email to JEFF BEZOS. THIS EMAIL: How did I know Jeff Bezos’ email? I didn’t. I just tried googling but wasn’t sure what it would be, so I put in all the combinations of jeff and bezos and his initials that I could think of. One of them must have gone through, because about two months later, my mom got a call asking for me. I had put her phone number in t

By Samarth Jajoo I’ve been making (a lot of) things for about a year now. Most of my time is spent hacking, building, and learning. This is the story of how I got started coding. I’ll share how I overcame the challenges of procrastinating and being lost, and how I built nine apps in nine months and discovered what I love doing. How reading got me into tech It all started with reading books. I really enjoy reading, so I got my Dad to buy me a Kindle — and I loved it! I used it for about an hour every day for the first six months or so. I even wrote a review for it, which got published by a loca

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