Hasandi Mudau 🇿🇦

“I have always been interested in tech engineering and the coding world since I was a child. When I first heard about it, I thought it was unattainable as I only saw white men in that industry. As I grew up, my aunt, who went into the data engineering industry, inspired me. I realized that as a black child, I could also be in that industry. For the love of STEM, I started my mechanical engineering degree at the esteemed University of the Witwatersrand. I was very excited because I got to keep the science in my engineering. We were introduced to Python, and I enjoyed the journey as I could build interesting stuff from scratch. Turning nothing into something big gave me joy. Then I was introduced to MATLAB, which I took with me into my second year. I found it to be stressful as it was rushed, and there were always deadlines to meet. This made me understand things late as I would be rushing to finish my work along with other modules. My aunt told me about SheCodes, and I decided to try it out. It was scary at first as I was hearing things I didn’t know. I enjoyed learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I loved the way everything was explained, and I could have a 100% understanding of the concepts while also being challenged. I loved that it was self-paced, so I didn’t have to stress about it and could do it at my own pace. I’m excited to learn more, but what I can say is SheCodes is amazing.”