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Heval Hazal Kurt

I've been doing it for the last 6 months. I was a filmmaker in the marketing industry. I'm still a filmmaker but not for the clients just for my personal projects as an independent filmmaker. However, both being independent and being a filmmaker doesn't make you alive on the financial side, especially in my dysfunctional country :) So I've decided to change my career. As a person who founded one of the biggest webpage and community about filmmaking in my country, I've had some basic coding experience in web development and graduated from a fine arts academy so front-end would be perfect for me! Nope! It wasn't. I've studied for a while on the web development and it was OK but it was kind of makeup and boring for me. Before the decision, I've met Python for a marketing project and I've fallen in love with it. So I've changed my mind and started to study on Python and back-end. It has been just 5-6 month, I'm still learning and developing projects but I love it! Here is my transition process that isn't finished yet :)