It all started in a small street called kilimahewa( Translates to a hill with plenty of air) not far away from the lake named after Matriarch of the United Kingdom. The city is Mwanza and the country is Tanzania it used to be rice fields all over the place. I don't remember much as I was a toddler, I was so black that my folks thought I will be a boxer when I grow up.That was 27 years ago.
I went through the community schools as like everyone else back then. I used to enjoy maths, and geography.
I remember my first days in O Lever were the best days of my life. I was the cool kid, who knew stuffs. Unfortunate I started to lose my sight when I was in form two, followed by loss of hearing, that changed everything.
What followed is what you can label as life hack. I wasn't a full deaf( since I can hear but with difficulty sometime) and I wasn't a full blind either( as I am short sighted). My folks spent all their fortune searching for cure, all know doctors in my country , at the end everyone just gave up on me except myself.
I was accepted at the University of Dodoma as a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance student and Graduated in 2013.
For the first time in my life, I used an email when I was in my first year. And well I also got to watch movie from one of my room mate laptop.
Since I couldn't hear the lecture, I had to spend a lot of time in the library fighting for books. I couldn't see myself surviving the three years without having access to books or any material relating to the lectures. So, my sister bought a laptop for me in my second semester, so that I can have access to books and everything I need to survive my college days.
I don't have many friends from college days, as I rarely attended any lectures. I was busy exploring my laptop. In the process, I never failed my exams and I was busy learning different kinds of stuffs. I got hooked up on the web. And learnt HTML,CSS, JS and PHP.
PHP was cool but I never liked it, so I moved to erlang for a couple of months only then to fall into python which made me love ruby at first sight. Those were the happiest days of my life.
After being introduced to websites in college, curiosity made me wonder how I can make my own website.
Most search result on Google about how to make a website points to PHP+MySQl+HTML+CSS combo. I started from there.
Most materials I was reading were from the w3c website. I was messing around with css and html mostly until when they weren't enogh that is when I tried to learn PHP. I was a windows user back then so my text editor was nodepad++.
After college I want back home and started the never ending job hunt. My Bcom FInance degree was useless. So I just gave up on jobs and dedicated myself to programming.