ultimatex:
I would like to use this medium to appreciate all of you. Most especially those who indicated an interest in me to further share my experience as a Freelance Software Developer. I decided to share my experience here as a way to add a little spice to the Webmaster section of Nairaland.

It is definitely an honor for me to share further.
In case, you have not read Part 1.
Here is the URL: https://www.nairaland.com/5938926/nicholas-idoko-experience-freelance-software

My experience continues thus:

As I sat down in Kingsley's room I, in fact, felt very lucky because Kingsley did not shy away from sharing with me how much money he has made from developing websites for various people. It became clear to me that I was completely wasting my time watching movies day in day out. On a side note, I believe I am blessed, in the sense that it is easier for me to understand lessons so I didn't do much reading in school. I simply watched a lot of movies and managed to excel.

After a long conversation with Kingsley, I decided to learn Java. Looking back now, I would have been shouting ABORT MISSION, ABORT MISSION The reason for this would later come down in a later part of my experience.

I asked Kingsley if he could teach me how to program and he said time is the problem. I could remember his exact words. He said: "Nick, you know say I like woman and I no want make people think say I be nerd for this lodge. I would not have the time to teach you but I can guide you if you have any questions. In the meantime, start learning Java."

I took it upon myself to learn Java. The next day, I rushed to Douglas Market in Owerri in search of a book on how to learn Java programming. Prior to that, I saw a lot of ebooks. I just didn't feel comfortable learning with an e-book. Also, remember we were having power issues. I went around the market and to my surprise, I could not find any book on how to code Java. I felt a bit disappointed.

I went back to the lodge, packed my bags, and traveled home that same day. Home is Enugu State, coal city state, 042.

I had a mission for the ASUU strike of 2013. I MUST LEARN HOW TO CODE

I got home and in the early hours of the morning, I rushed to Ogbete Main Market. I asked around for bookshops and I remember a guy walked me all the way from the gate of the market to the exact shop where so many books on programming were stocked. I was wowed, In my head, I thought, it seems a lot of people have started learning to program here in Enugu. That there were this many books on Programming.

I requested a book on Java and the salesperson had like 10 various books. I decided to buy 'Introduction to Java Programming' by Y. Daniel Liang. The funny thing is I cannot even remember how much I bought that book and I can confidently say that that book was the foundation of me being a software developer to this day. If you have seen this book, you would know that the book is huge. It is like one of those Anatomy books medical students carry around. I was fearless and I was confident that I would tear this book apart.

I got home, I flipped through the book and all I could recognize was the first chapter of the book since that was all we did in school. The rest where jibberish. I remember when I flipped to Java Server Pages and Database and my head felt shooked. I started reading and practicing. It was fun sometimes and sometimes, it was utter hell. I remember the first time I made a mistake of not adding a semicolon. It drove me crazy, literally. I looked at the code snippet front and back and I could not see that there was no semicolon at the end of one my statement.

I could not sleep throughout that night, I slept for a while, woke up and looked at it, still nothing. At a point, I saw myself shouting at the laptop. , I would shout and I would beg the laptop to please run the code successfully. It was at this instance, that it occurred to me that a computer is thoroughly an idiot machine, GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT. One thing with me is I make sure I solve all the exercises in the book no matter how many they are and I can't just move to the next chapter without having to do that. I was so frustrated.

The way, I solved that problem was funny to me. Now, because I have looked at the code so much the picture of the code was embedded in my brain so deep that I could literally see the lines of code no matter what I am doing. One evening, a friend of mine, Tiger, his real name is Bright but we all call him Tiger or El Tigre. He came to my house with PlayStation for us to play Soccer. It was while playing the game and mind you he was beating me mercilessly in the soccer match that I discovered that I had missed a semicolon in the second line of the statement. I ran to my laptop, corrected it and the code ran successfully. It was at that moment, I PAID MY DUES AND RESPECT TO SEMICOLON .

I kept on practicing and moving forward to the next chapters. I was already an introvert but coding made matters worse. It was as if my level of "introvertness" was multiplied exponentially. All I did and wanted to do was code from morning till night. It got to the point that my parents became worried. My mom kept on complaining that I was spending so much time on the computer and I should be reading my books in case they call off the ASUU strike. My dad was complaining that I do not have time to do chores in the house again and I have neglected washing his car, clothes, and some other stuff, I did without bothering before.

I would not lie, I understood where they were coming from, I normally did all those things but as I dived deep into coding I gradually neglected everything and focused on just CODE. SLEEP. EAT. REPEAT. My life just became a cycle.

At that time, I have never been in LOVE but I started to understand what my friends do say about how being in LOVE can make your priorities singular and your mind distorted. I was IN LOVE with CODING.

The complaints from my parents started to increase and I started to bounce . I would wake up very early in the morning, clean up and go to the library, spend the whole day there till night. I would be back exhausted and sleep off I found an escape route. There was this small library in Enugu called Opus Dei, opposite UNEC. It was amazing, they had Air Conditioning, 24 hours electricity and it was very quiet. It is owned by a group of catholic priests and it is simply amazing.

I remember the first time, I left home to the library. My parents were dumbfounded. It was after a week of me doing that that they knew how serious programming was to me. They stopped complaining for a while. I enjoyed my stay in the library I kept on going there even on Saturdays and Sundays.

After the semicolon incident, I was coding smoothly until I met another HELLFIRE!! This next hell was even worse than the hell from the semicolon. It was RECURSION. I was done with iterations: while, for loops and all that good stuff. I was now in a chapter called Methods. I understood how the methods work and how it can help prevent re-inventing the wheel. I was playing around with it and all was good and dandy. All of a sudden, I decided to do an exercise that needed recursion. In case you do not know what recursion is. In layman terms: recursion is the art of looping a method within itself. You simply say it is a method or function's form of iteration. If you have an easier way of defining it. You can share it with us as well.

Now, the problem, every time I run the code my laptop hung. As a newbie, I actually did not know why it was happening that way. I started checking the code and I could not see why it was happening that way. Mehn, I was frustrated again, My soul was BOILING. I kept on asking what is the meaning of all this. I noticed something though. In the console, the loop ran till infinity. It was at this moment, I had my first experience with INFINITY LOOPS.

Phew, that stuff can be annoying. I dug deeper into the code to see where the problem was, I could not find it. After about 36 hours, I tried to contact Kingsley to see if he could help me but I was not able to reach him. I later found at that he was in South Africa at the time. I was ALL ALONE until I met a very amazing friend. A friend almost all programmers have benefited from her good graces. I hereby welcome you all to our dear friend, STACK OVERFLOW.

I was asking various questions on google trying to find out why the code was not running properly. Google referred me to Stack Overflow and it was magnificent. It was the community, I so needed at the time. People were happy to help debug with you on your code issues. Fortunately for me, someone else had the exact problem as I and another person had answered his question. I saw what they did, then checked back at my code and saw my mistake. The mistake was SO STUPID, I started laughing out loud in the library and everyone turned and start looking at me. I immediately started saying sorry, sorry while smiling sheepishly.


I kept moving forward, for some reason, Arrays were actually easy for me to understand. I slid through that chapter and exercises like I was the King of Coding. It was later in my journey, I met other programmers who told me they still do not understand Arrays and Maps fully. I may be lucky there WHO KNOWS. I enjoyed the Array chapter. I did some amazing exercises and I even helped quite a few people to solve their Array issues on Stack Overflow and got the GREEN TICK for correct answer

I kept on moving majestically learning how to code. I started feeling PROUD and UNSTOPPABLE. At some point, I saw myself as the UNDERTAKER. I wrote codes and it ran without much debugging. I never knew my FALL OFF was very close at hand. Brothers and Sisters, OBJECTS AND CLASSES broke me to pieces.

I would pause sharing my experience here. It seems like I have written much already. If you were able to read all these up to this point Kudos to you. I would very much like to view your experiences as well. If you would like me to continue sharing, kindly indicate. Stay Safe, People

Regards

please continue. sir,I am also a web developer and I will like to work with you

fineboynl:
they are not free

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fineboynl:
I want to know how to convert a web application to Android app.

free service

use phonegap for both iOS and android or use Apache cordova

Flakky26:
I need someone based in Abuja that can develop a simple web portal for project report feedback on a low budget . the portal must have these features -

1. where many people working on different project can sign in and enter project reports update
2. log in user can upload project pictures
3. project supervisors can view report updates and drop comments
4. log in users can only have access to projects assign to them to give report updates.
5. log in users working on the same project can get to see each other updates reports and pictures.
6. project updates reports and pictures uploaded can be printed out on a spread sheet
7. Project supervisors receives email alert as soon as user submit a report update on a project
8, users working on the same project can communicate by chatting.
9. messages can be sent to single and multiple users.

IF You can deliver, reach me on 080nine318374three

I can do this perfectly but I am not in abuja.
my number is on my profile

This should be on front page

Innosson has won every Cass against gt Bank including the customs case, illegal deductions and harassment and reputation damage using efcc case. The only problem is that some.of.the cases has not yet reached supreme court but he has won in all lower courts.

SarkinYarki:
The case has nothing to do with over charging his account but about his goods that were stolen and auctioned from the ports by Nigeria Customs , GT didn't even have any business in they case other than they were bankers to the customs at that time and they chose to stand by their customer instead of obeying the law

So you believed the nonsense press release by gt bank? But according to Mr innosson he said the money in question is the one owed to him by gt bank

Wordken:
See below it

Why are you like this?

How GT entered into this mess?

Simple, the same way most people lose money ; carelessness.

They were judging the man by appearance, they never suspected extreme deviousness.

They assessed the man by his simple peasant dressing, badly spoken English with heavy Igbo accent.

A school certificate holder with more money than sense.

Someone they could take advantage of. They started by overcharging his accounts.

The man kept egging them on by showing apparent stupidity and innate weakness .

They never knew this " uneducated, igbotic, peasant" was harbouring dangerous thoughts.

Now he has them by the cojones and they don't even have the decency to acknowledge that they have been outsmarted by a spare parts dealer..

GT would not have tried this with Jimoh Ibrahim, Juhel Pharmacy, or Abdulsamad Rabiu.

They would suspect these people to have sense.

But Spare parts dealer? No.

Now they are paying for it.

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Are you willing to pay as much as 3.5m for this ? Technologies to deploy include php7 , laravel , JavaScript , jequery , ajax , html5 , css3 and a bonus of an android app built using phone gap. No use of pluggins, it slows down site. The website will look like load like amazon since it will be single page making use of ajax!

I want to test if a file is selected

dejt4u:
yes. the scholarship is opened to students of all tertiary institutions

have been banned on politics section but not education. am I eligible?

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I have been banned on politics section but not education. am I eligible?

guys pls where can I download a working cracked version 17 (cc 17) of adobe Dreamweaver? I desperately need it as the two files I downloaded didn't work. my systems specs are intel dual core. 2.53ghz processor with windows 8.1.

pls note I am using night plan so I won't be able to reply this post until tomorrow morning. so, just help me and drop the download link.
thanks and God bless.

shell has started paying 2016/2017 awardees. but I have not received mine. though, some of my friends have received theirs. so are you or have you been a beneficiary? when did you receive your pay?.

saboteurs. don't lick jubrils ass. our own government is coming by may 2019

na them go cry when they increase benefits and salaries of other university lectures and leaves them out

may ango abdulahi and buhari perish in the hands of Fulani herdsmen

what a shame to this government. even if Nigerians commit crime is it not the responsibility of the police to arrest them and try them? how many Chinese have we killed for bringing in fake products into our country or how many Indian/Lebanese company have we burnt down for maltreating their Nigerian workers? buhari shame on you! Nigeria shame on you. I am truly angered and regret why I come from this useless country.

They can't even try this with Iranian or Pakistani citizens because the retaliation they will get is hell rain of nuclear ICBM.

This reminds me of how Ghana wanted to go to war because of Charles Taylor killing ghanians in his country and immediately Ghana warned them of how war they stopped.But they continued killing Nigeria

am sure he voted bubu in 2015

can only be igbo

will always and can only be igbo

doyinbaby:
what you wish akure will be the lot of your town

Then don't vote buhari

the gradual and steady fall of APC and the sai babarians taking place

very soon the palace of the deji of akure will become the palace of emir of akure

Pigsandidiots:
Your wish.

reality on ground

after buharis second tenure the palace of the deji of akure will be turned to emir of akure

doyinbaby:
what you wish akure will be the lot of your town

Then don't vote buhari

this is how it started in Benue. very soon south west will be a battlefield but it is unfortunate it won't be a fair battle but a massacre field with the army giving tactical support to the herdsmen.
The evil that men do always lives with them!
After Benue who is next? southwest? SOUTHWEST 2018?

the islamization and installment of the emir of ado-ekiti and other western cities is in progress.

because of nonsense 2023 presidency the west allowed this nonsense to befall us but I have a shocker for the awos.

If the presidency is not zoned to the igbo in 2023 be sure that the northerners will continue ruling because el rufai and other northern political blocs will defect to pdp or form a new party and you all know who ss/se will support in such eventuality.

Hakeem12:
download here

Thank you so so much. I have downloaded it. Pls help with this nigerian movie link
ESOHE

Pls I need link for kickboxer 2:retaliation
Cc hakeem12
Hakeem12