# How the pandemic got me into wanting to learn to program 💻😬 - My journey as a complete Noob

**Hey!** I am **Tiia** and you are here to learn about how I stumbled into programming thanks to the pandemic. 

### Little Tiia tried to be friends with computers

To be fair, it's not quite true. I **wanted** to program since I was a teenager and learned about the existence of computers. I even tried to get into the programming classes in our middle school but was sent away because I was the only girl who applied and the teachers didn't think a girl was healthy for a male-only environment. So I took the L and went into the photography classes instead (it was my second choice, so I enjoyed it). 

Between middle school Tiia and adult Tiia are now a few years and I did work subconsciously in tech a lot of times. I worked in archeology but my main job was **measuring the excavation** sites and visualizing the data into maps. 

Later I **set up CMS for customers** for a few years and after that, I even worked as a **Tech Journalist and blogger**. But most of that was covering the hardware part of things. 

### Then the pandemic started

When the pandemic started I knew I needed a project that would make the lockdowns and waiting times not a waste of time and help me keep my sanity. So I went back to content creation, one of my most favorite hobbies and I bought my first **JavaScript course**.  
Now another year later I decided to take a break from **JavaScript** because I fell in love with **Python**. 

### What to expect

In this blog, you will not find smart tutorials on how to do things. I will most likely be the person, reading your smart blogs about how to do things. BUT instead, you will find the programming journey of a **neurodiverse girl**, that **loves dinosaurs** and uses programming to **procrastinate the pandemic**.