In 2019, I moved to Germany with my family. It was a difficult journey and still remains a path full of obstacles. Integrating into a new culture, learning the language, understanding the social hierarchy, and raising children has not been easy.
In Uzbekistan, where I come from, I worked as a journalist. Later, I immigrated to Turkey and worked as a translator in a clinic. In Germany, a new profession awaited me — and I chose programming.
In 2023, I started learning programming on my own, beginning with Java. Of course, I studied Spring, Maven, Docker, Hibernate, Git, Kubernetes, SQL — about 250 hours of training.
At first, it was difficult to understand the world of computer science. Spring was challenging, I was fascinated by databases — but I overlooked one thing: without practice and without real work, what I learned through tears would quickly be forgotten. That's why I started creating this website — to apply the theory I gained from courses and continue learning.
Programming no longer seems scary to me. Everything in it is explainable, logical, and interesting.
Getting the first job is hard. Especially when you have no work experience. Many beginner programmers know this path filled with doubts and rejections. You can’t find a job because you have no experience, and you can’t gain experience because you have no job. On top of that, a beginner often doesn’t even know how to gain experience. At least, that’s how it was for me.
Currently, I want to build independent projects to practice the theory I've learned. That’s why I created this website.
But life had other plans. In 2025, I took an unexpected turn — and started an Ausbildung as a Technische Systemplanerin HLSK (building services engineering) in Germany.
Heating systems, technical drawings, Trimble Nova, AutoCAD — a completely different world. And yet, the same logic that drew me to programming now draws me to engineering.
I am a single mother, an immigrant, a former journalist, a self-taught programmer, and now — a future systems planner. Each chapter taught me something the next one needed. This website is not a finished story. It's a living document — of someone who keeps choosing growth over comfort.