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Antonio Radovcic

How to become a developer according to Niorad:

👶🏻🌱 Get a DOS-PC at age 8 and do the MS-Works-Tutorial a thousand times

📺👦🏻 Discover QBasic at age 11 on your old 486/DX50

📰💡 Find an HTML-Tutorial in a german Games-Magazine and start making small, useless websites

🧮🛑 Get discouraged to pursue tech-career due to being bad at math

🏦⌛️ After school waste three years in an apprenticeship at a bank

🏦🎨 Start drawing during the courses there

🧔🏻.oO(I seem to be not so bad at drawing)

🎨🏫 Attend a secondary school with an art-focus

🎨🎓 Study communications-design (BA) in Munich, with focus on interaction-design

☕️🎨 Learn Java (Processing) and modern HTML/CSS at uni-projects

🎨📈 Get design-internship at agency thanks to a band-website you made for a friend

📈🧔🏼<==(Wait, you can also do front-end? Welcome on board!)

🎨👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻🎨👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻🎨👨🏻‍💻🎨👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻 Do mostly coding at design-internship

🎓=>📈 Get hired full-time (2012 - now) after uni and learn necessary coding/cs/tech-topics on the job