It was a blow to her ambitions, and things only went downhill from there. After getting a degree in Physics, she attempted to find a way back into coding through a Masters degree, only to encounter a man at the application office who demanded she give him her phone number and meet him for a coffee.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt that point I thought to myself, \u2018It\u2019s not working, Sarra, just give up\u2019.\u201d So she ended up teaching Physics to kids in high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summers turned into winters, the years flew away. Sarra married, moved to Germany with her husband Nidhal, became a mother of two children. She experienced the joy of motherhood, but also came to know the deepest grief and loss. Yet her dream never died inside of her. It clung on, waiting for its time like a seed under snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually, that time came. \u201cAfter my second child went to kindergarten and I didn\u2019t have to look after her all day, I knew it was my moment. I went straight to the employment agency and in my first meeting with my advisor, I said it straight: I want to code. They suggested I teach Physics instead, like I\u2019d done in the past. So I repeated myself: I. Want. To. Code!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seeing her determination, her advisor suggested a coding bootcamp, that new, intensive way into the world of professional programming. For Sarra, it was a revelation. \u201cWhen I found WBS CODING SCHOOL and saw all the things their curriculum for Data Science<\/a> taught \u2013 and in only four months! \u2013 it looked like a dream. I applied for financial sponsorship from the employment agency, and when I got it \u2013 I was jumping for joy around the house all day with my husband!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many who take a coding bootcamp find it exhausting, have trouble keeping up. Sarra, on the other hand, found the whole thing light on the heart and on the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI didn\u2019t just take the teachings I was given, I went deeper in my own spare time. I always wanted more, and so I learned very fast! The other students asked me if I had already studied this language or that library before, and I always said \u2018no, I learned how to do this two weeks ago\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that the bootcamp is finished, Sarra\u2019s satisfaction sounds almost poetic. \u201cA struggle that was inside of me has settled into peace. When you fight with a problem your whole life and then find the solution to it \u2013 that\u2019s what learning to code felt like to me. Now I can start applying for jobs in Data Science, and from there the future remains to be discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n My final question to Sarra relates to one of the most common anxieties about programming \u2013 what would she say, to people like her who studied something else at university, but now feel they are too old to learn to code?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t know about other places,\u201d she says, after thinking it over for a moment, \u201cbut at WBS CODING SCHOOL the teaching method takes you step by step, and does not assume any prior knowledge. The way it\u2019s taught here, you can learn to code even if you are 80. Honestly, if anybody feels their chance has come and gone, I\u2019d say go for it. Go for it now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Sarra](\"https:\/\/www.wbscodingschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Coding-1.webp\")
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