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Dulya Perera
Dulya Perera

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Nevertheless, Dulya Coded in 2022!👩‍💻

OMG😲.. three years for this year February that I've started to learn the coding. The time⏳ flies fastly. Anyway I am not regret about anything that I've done in last three years though I capable enough to gain more experiences, life lessons and many, many more.

Well when I was 8 years old my father bought me a computer which is a hp computer and Windows xp was the OS (yeah that old I am😁) installed in. So as all know, there was no internet connection but had pinball game with big confuse how to play it and win, always making presentations, drawing pictures in painter🎨 etc.

And when I was 11 years old father bought me a laptop💻 with Windows 7 installed and it's a Toshiba laptop. The interfaces all changed into smoother with more attractive colors rather than blue and grey. So then I started to learn many more things on it with internet connection.

That learning experience caused to choose me the IT subject for my Ordinary Level exam. But it was getting harder and harder😣 and I end up give up passing the subject with 'A'. Believe me that I got 60 marks for my final exams which was the last exam that we were faced before the Ordinary Level exam. Actually I wanted to give up. But I didn't💪, in four weeks before the exam I started to do the revisions continuously. And then wrote the exam paper confidentiality and got a big 'A' for the subject. So still I'm being happy👧 about that. That's the first impression of being a coding girl.

However I chose biology stream for my Advanced Level exams and passed to enter the university for Animal Science degree. Anyhow I hated it since I can't speak with animals and fear of touching them🙉. Then decided to be a Software Engineer with past memories of victory😏 of getting A's.

I enrolled to do the software engineering and very first day I sat on the wrong lecture but I had motivated by the lecturer's speak. Started to align for the uni culture and keep getting 'A's over the big struggles.

The covid pandemic pause all my strengths for a while and made me lazy🦥. But I got the chance to implement some mobile applications📱 in flutter. However I'd to do all the studies, assignments, exams at home which I hate most and started to get my marks down. Then I think about new start...

But I found my very first internship where I struggled lot again. I were happy in the beginning since I got paid🤑. But cried a lot in very first month because of the workload that I had and learning the new technologies within two days were hard😪. Anyhow I'd managed to complete the all my tasks prior to the deadlines. I won🏆 again and lot of my seniors appreciate my work for doing very well. But I missed my studies again.

The new start over here. I have already set the goals🥇 though this is the my final year of studying for Bachelors. Let's keep going. Fighting🤞.

As a women I struggled a lot and always found a solution to avoid them like we are doing in a coding when we are getting an errors. Those are experience. Definitely if you don't want to give up, you will end up having a response not to give up.

Happy Women's Day👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏻!! Cheers🍻!!

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