Reflecting on my first 1,500 hours of programming!
Sat Nov 13 2021
In this article, I go through my first 1,500 of programming, the resources I learned from, and some stuff that helped me to improve that may help you too.
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2006 to 2021
Alhamdulillah:
- Born on 20th March 2006
- Started to learn coding on 19th June 2020
- Learned frontend development basics and applied what I learned in 23 GitHub repositories
- Applied the equations I learned in physics in two simple projects
2022
Alhamdulillah:
- Ranked 2nd in my institute in my 1st high school year
- Did my first GitHub contribution
- Read Crafting Interpreters and created a programming language in Rust
2023
Alhamdulillah:
- Ranked 2nd in my institute in my 2nd year of high school
- Learned algorithms and data structures by taking Algorithms, Part I and Algorithms, Part II courses
- Learned UX design basics by taking Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design course
2024
Alhamdulillah:
- Ranked 5th in the Al-Azhar high school education system
- Ranked 1st in the Principles of Disease module
- Developed DocReader Guide with my friends
2025
Alhamdulillah:
- Started going to the GYM on 16th May 2025
- Ranked 2nd in my first year in medicine
- Participated in SciAsk Scientific Research Training (SRT) program
- Learned the basics of statistics and clinical research by taking Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics course
- Learned the basics of prompt engineering
- Applied what I learned in these hobby projects
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I am truly impressed by your way of thinking, Yosef, and how you support your colleagues. You are excellent, and I predict a promising future for you in Pharmacology.
Feedback received after creating video tutorials on my iPad helping my colleagues in a WhatsApp group supervised by the doctor.
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Dr. Alaa Eissa
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