Learning to code wasn’t easy. At first, it felt like reading a foreign language. Variables, loops, functions, conditionals, APIs… it was overwhelming. I didn’t think I was smart enough. I’d stare at the screen, stuck for hours on bugs that turned out to be a missing bracket or semicolon. But something kept me going. Because every time something worked—no matter how small—it felt like magic. That moment when your code runs, when the button actually works, or when your first website goes live... t