As a boy, Anthony Atuoha wanted to be a lawyer. Then he sat in front of a computer for the first time, and that was the end of his law career. “I felt like I had a connection with it,” he says. Today, Anthony is a Senior Mobile Software Engineer specialising in Flutter, a technical writer published on freeCodeCamp, an …

When Michelle Buchi Okonicha was little, she wanted to be the next Chimamanda. She dreamt about moving people through her writing. Today, she is an AI & Machine Learning Engineer, a Google Developer Expert, a Women Techmakers Ambassador, and the founder of Girls Like Me Dream Initiative, an initiative dedicated to ensuring that girls, regardless of background, can dream without …

“There was no structured learning path. I had to learn backend engineering from different people.” Solomon Eseme’s entry into backend engineering was not smooth or straightforward. In his own words, it was messy. He learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from different courses, different instructors, and different teaching styles. Each teacher had their own method, language, and assumptions. Instead of giving …