how i got into coding - my journey ⚽ 

I started coding at the age of 40 after years of taxi driving. It was difficult, but I still do not give up.

I've bought all your courses and they've completely changed my life as a professional developer. Three years into my career I felt like I wasn't getting anywhere and I didn't "get it". Then I discovered your website, took ALL your courses and immediately got a dream job as a Lead Developer. Thank you for everything you've done for me and all of us! You could teach software engineering to a potato, lol.

I started coding when I was 24, seeing other people start late, makes me feel less alone, and everything gonna be fine. Thanks for your video, it really bright me up.

MAN THANKS !! OWING YOU I GOT ONE JOB AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER !!!! THANKS !!!

I love this guy honestly Am 42 and now , am trying to learn to code with phyton, i dont know if I will ever get but i will try

I started coding when I was 37 years old , you can start any age even older then that You just need to understand first and have notes, then start playing with your hands.

Football is my favorite sport, I played for 10 years. I had to stop because of groin pain. Learned to code in university and have loved it since. And I will always love football! Enjoying euro championship games this summer🤙🤙⚽⚽

You're an inspiration Nelson! Respect to you for getting to where you have got to so far. Best of luck to you!

7:19 Today upon completion of my 3rd year at university I secured a web dev internship at one of the best Software companies in my country. I am so happy, Alhamdulillah

My mom threw me on a computer to play educational games starting when I was 3 or 4 (the year was '95 or '96). She worked a lot, so it was her way of making sure I got some additional learning in without her. From there I taught myself ALOT about computers. MySpace actually gave me my first experience coding, but I thought I liked graphic design better, so I took that path. Fast forward to 2017 and I realized I HATED designing. Just because you're good at something, doesn't mean you'll love it. I found out about a Grow with Google scholarship through Udacity for front-end development. The rest is history. I was blessed enough to land a junior role a month after receiving my nanodegree. I've been at this job ever since, but am very stagnant. Looking to up my skills and you teach SO well. Glad I came across your channel.

Really needed to hear this akhi currently struggling in a Full Stack BootCamp. May Allah bless you abundantly for this quality content! Aameen

I don't know why, I just like this man so much. I mean, the way he talks and he seems so calm.

Nelson, When I watch this kind of videos, I feel like you are some kind of good old friend of mine. Tks for your job here on YT man! 🙏

Yes my brother Nelson I see u still gt the touch still. Masha Allah. Keep up the hard work. Your Inspiring n educational videos n lessons. Ur great n wonderful human being. Your wonderful amazing ROLE MDOEL FOR THE YOUNG GENRATION.

I can relate to what you said about those injuries I am a 17 year old boy,the injuries started from when I was really young ...but my dad just straighten them for me ...and then tears of relief fall from my eyes..I stopped playing football around last year November..when I had a critical one...dreams crushed 😍 😢 💔...now I found out that coding is so much form...its so sad my friends actually play for a local team and I can't because of the conditions 😢 💔 😞

Nelson you're a passionate programmer, self-learner, motivator and an undrestandable instructor with wise techniques. Hope you good luck & the Amigiscode community you established for long-life learners and skill upgrading for tech enthusiasts. I learnt more from you like Java, Linux commands and Software Engineering Tools like Git and Github.

Inspirational...im watching from Africa, Kenya.. People like you are the reason we believe!!Keep sharing.

I just finish the basic python course and now I'm into the pycharm one, you are really inspiring man, thank you for these courses and keep on teaching, blessing

I am related to your history, at least the first part lol. my dream was to be a football player too, I couldn't do it and that really led me into an unknown world, because it was my only passion. I also learn to fix computers from my uncle but I didn't go into that because I have a fight with him and I left work and I just didn't have the time to consider it as my career. I ended studying Biology but without a real passion for that. when the pandemic hit, everything changed and I get into coding for curiosity and I am really loving it, I am learning C++ while I am still finishing my career. I am 24, really concerned because I feel I am too old but I guess it's better now than never. I would love to work abroad seeking a new opportunity for me and my family. thanks for your story, encourages me a bit more. greetings from Colombia.

Thank you for being my teacher. I'm 40 and just became a junior fullstack developer.

Bro I'm 33 and I'm still dreaming about being becoming a professional soccer player. Recently I decided to take a break and work on coding so I can put some money aside so I can dedicate more time to it. Thanks for your tutorials and thanks for sharing your story!

" ان الله لا يضيع عمل عامل منكم " machalah 🙏❤hard work always pay off.

The biggest mistake that you can do in life, is to give up ! I find myself in your story. I was never interested in school, that is why I was pretty bad at everything. Anyway, at the end of high school I decided to go to university and study computer science, because I was thinking that it cannot be that bad. First year was a pain for me, so many strange things, a lot of math, programming, and at the end of first year I failed about 90% of the exams. I was feeling bad, like I can not do anything in this life, I was thinking that everything in life comes easy for others, but not for me. I was feeling so bad, that one day a desire born inside me, a desire to prove that I can be good too if I work hard. I wanted to prove myself that I can do it, if is it possible for others, then for sure it will be possible for me too. I decided to repeat the first year at university and this is the best decision that I took in my entire life. I am proud of it. This happened 8 years ago. Today, I am an engineer and I can tell you that I was working hard, extremely extremely hard, focusing on school just as you said in this video. Nothing in life comes easy. About three months ago I found you channel. I want to thank you for doing all these lessons, you are amazing and I have learned lots of things from you. You are a mentor for me and I do admire you.

Same as you mate, was aspiring footballer all through school did?not work out ended up in construction. At 36 decided to change and go to learn coding. Learnt HTML and Css then begore I know it was going a full stack bootcamp completed that and got a job as software engineer learning java. I am currently in my second year as a full stack Java developer Your courses have been amazing help for me so thank you. You are 100 percent correct anyone can do it just need to put in the work. "Get comfortable feeling uncomfortable" is a quote that helped me the most.

You my DAWG fr when i just graduated highschool 2019 I got a web dev course jus cause and I never took it and pretty much forgot about development fast forward I found your channel and your videos pushed me to get into development I'm now almost a month in on my journey and really enjoying it

you're a great inspiration. Wish you the best of the lucks from argentina! :)

Love your laughter....thnx for sharing from Mexico

Your story is so impressive, thanks for sharing and thank you so much for this awesome channel.

Every time I watch your videos I got more excited about beggining a software enginer. Your channel is amazing bro

the moment you said " i came from slums" i just started to like you more then before. period.

I started coding with 0 prior knowledge at age 25. I was lucky enough to be able to move to be a junior developer in the company I already worked for and they let me learn whilst I go but I have found it very hard to pick it up and get going. I started to learn just as we went into lockdown so I found it very disrupting to my learning. I am nearly 2 years in to being a developer with not very much knowledge because of covid & being moved around to other projects within my organisation. I found your videos and it is really sparking my interest and motivating me to apply myself more and push hard through this to get my skills up to standard and to make up for lost time now things are back to normal. I work close to London, would love to speak with you to gain some knowledge off you!

Wow ❤️I love u even more now after knowing u were into football

Great vid, I'm in uni now but I struggle with coding now, but I know for sure I'll become so much better

Amazing, I really like videos like these! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

My brother from a different mother. Allah protect you

Perfect Intro Mama Samba Braima bro

Thank you so much bro,you never ceased to inspire me on this my new journey

Nice shoot into the goal brother that was Magical!

You should do more vlogs style video like the day in a life of a software engineer those videos banged

Thanks for sharing your story bro - super insightful. I'm from London so down for football whenever you want!

Thank you for sharing so much to the community, wish you more success

I am starting coding learning python got my inspiration from you thanks!

Nelson thank you. I have really loved this video. Allah bless you so much.

Hey Nelson, you inspire me a lot May Allah bless you a lot 🤲🏿

Can we have more reality videos like this. It motivates me!!

wooow thanks Amigoscode for the great works 🤩

Wow, you are really good player man! Come to Brazil to we play sometime!

Lol. I also played a good bit of football in high school. Loved it. I should have asked who's your EPL team when we talked the other day but didn't want you to get a bad impression if you didn't like my team.

I don't think it's necessarily harder to learn things as an adult. We're taught we suck if we didn't finish yesterday so we deal with impostor syndrome and anxiety and whatnot. But we also have a better grasp of abstract thinking and we know plenty of stuff that a child doesn't. I say this because that's something that worried me learning human languages but now I'm very confident in my language learning skills. I'm 26 and I've been studying for about a year and honestly I'm starting to feel very comfortable programming. Still gotta deal with random intrusive thoughts every now and then but the point is that you can totally do it if you want to, assuming you have some free time and whatnot. And it's easier if you actually enjoy it. It's okay if you don't quite understand, things get way easier as you do them. Ex: I didn't even understand return statements at first lol. Now I'm a junior backend developer. Best of luck to everyone in this journey!

You are an inspiration brother. Djazaka allah khayran

I love how you have made the best of your life. I love football, but haven’t played in years. I’m usually the goalkeeper or defense position. To come back to youtube videos, I haven’t found good material explaining assembly language and stack. Can you make videos on these subjects? Thanks

Thanks for sharing this, really inspiring. Recently fractured my tibia and I can't walk for some time. Currently doing my masters as well in Data Science. Inshallah, we can learn and follow in your footsteps and get something from our endeavours too. Stay blessed Nelson!

Im 19 , know barely nothing about coding but i love it and i want some motivation and to learn more. I will appreciate any help from anyone. Thanks guys.

Im actually just a year in. I started at 30. Its been tough and its scary sometimes. I just bow my head and secretly cry cometimes cos this is what i really want to do with my life. Hopefully someday soin id have the opportunity to inspire people too to go for it.

Barakallahu fikum....nice

Nice video but stunned you got into KCL with a btech and 2 gcse's - the a-level equivalent would have been like A*AA in maths and further maths

I started at 14 , I'm now a software engineering student going for master's degree.

Ma sha Allah. All we need to make reasons and trust in Allah. May Allah bless you

Love you brother ,I like your voice , your voice always gives peace ,calm, When I heard your voice it feels like programing is normal easy, God always bless you , lots of love

Walekum asslam bro I am big fan of you...keep motivate as is ..

Assalamu'alaykum brother, love to see more, very inspiring story. Wish you all the best!

Mash’Allah bro! Love your vibe 🙏🏼❤️🔥

#friendsCode

Continue motivating us who are in uni ,thanks bro

I like videos like this!! Missed them.

Had to Replay that intro like 7 times Bredda. Inshallah. Beautiful Placement. Shalom

Hi I’m 16 just finished GCSEs. I plan to be an Aerospace Engineer and If I had to chose another job it would surely be Software engineer ✨. I might try to learn Python

Mashallah brother, inspiring 🙌🏻☺️

Nice brother. I have to say that when I joined uni, I just went with the flow without ever putting any effort. My only disadvantage was the language barrier. I just couldn’t understand my lecturers. 😂

you are so good, thanks for your inspiration. love your video!!!!!!!

waalikum assalam brother you are legend don't stop making video you are the best

Great story, after years taking time out from IT I have now returned at the age of 22 and am studying a computer science degree :)

Alhamdulillah brother. i am happy for you. 👍

I guess I'll have to do the hobbies I like, just like you. If I keep working, I might die. Thank you bro.

We really appreciate this bro👏

I started teaching myself coding at the age of 28 and I got my first job as Full stack engineer two days ago and I will start my job on June 1, 2020. Thanks God

The key is to be persistent. Never give up and also don’t be afraid to start learning or to apply to jobs no matter whether you are too young or too old or without any professional experience! I am a 19 Year old Software Engineer with almost 1 year of professional experience and I also study (Bachelor’s) Informatics computer engineering. So nothing is impossible!!!😁

I have loved football since the time I saw Lionel Messi play but I became a programmer. I can relate your story bruh

May Allah Bless you with more success, all that you dream and is best for you :-)

Very inspiring!🙏🏾

Love my brother 💯

Man you are a legit soccer player

hehehe :D I admire you Nelson! you are a big inspiration for me! Please keep on this path, keep inspiring people, keep making the world a better place! Take care, Borjas.

You are awesome dude!

I made no mistake the first day I watch your video. Barakallahu fihi brother

Make a video about connecting intelij idea community to the NVDA screen Reader

Brooo, i have the same story. Currently, I am a junior java developer but as a child I was a pro football player. But you juggle the ball better than me

Nice! brother, as Brazilian your history its like mine...

Thank you brother!

From London and love your videos, would love to meet up and play football!

Njoyed watching you like this

loved this!

Bro , it’s great!

you’re amazing bro

MashAllah brother you still got the skills do you consider a career change ? ;) Listening to your story it´s the way of life you have ups and downs but will you learn, adapt and evolve? Best wishes to you and your family P. S. Love these kind of videos

may allah swt open every doors of khair for you in your life and may allah guide you upon a path most pleasing to him allhuma ameen

Sir you are my greatest inspiration ❤ !!

Love your journey! Question about the full stack course, is there any plans on adding a spring security user login layer?

Thanks man, i love football too, and I also want to be a footballer, but somehow now I'm a programmer 😅

I totally relate coz I had the exact same dream and life path as you 😭😭