Samiul Haqq: A Young Programmer from North
Gone
are days when we always heard that the only way to find script kiddies,programmer’s or the so called webmaster’s are only in south but thanks to
technological advancement were many northerner are now trying to stand out in
field, even though many us kick off with some few errors.
Considering
our world is becoming more and more digital, filled with smart devices that
allow us to turn on our lights 15 minutes before we arrive home or lock our
front doors as we leave, learning to code will help you better understand –and
control– your world.
The
reality is, anyone can learn to code. Coding is nothing more than telling your
computer what to do in a language the computer understands. And the sooner we
accept this, the sooner we can equip our self with the right tools.
But
wait I know you might be asking yourself what this, is all about. Precisely, is
all about how some of our brothers stand out to feature our dear area, our own
pride and our own brand.
A
met a dude on Facebook, who live in Azare Local Government of Bauchi State of
Nigeria, being him well talent and the way he run his own internet life make me
not to pass-by without having a thought with him. This guy makes it tight to
dominate and to bring something new to Arewa and to whole Nigeria which will
benefit even after he gone.
Please
tell us who you are and what you do online and when did you kick off
My
name is Samiu Salihu also known as (Samiul Haqq), 21 years by Age, currently
studying Computer Science at Jigawa State Institute of Information Technology,
Kazaure. Having
so many years as computer operator and managed various tasks of an organization
efficiently. I have taken the responsibility of operating and monitoring small
as well as large scale electronic data processing systems which helps me to
take decision on critical tasks on both type of systems. I have vast experience
and expertise in Web Development, with skills under the PHP, JSP, VB, JAVA,
HTML, CSS, JS, languages, I also involved in Digital Marketing, maintain logs
and records in organizations, company, school’s websites.
I Started
Online activities at 2011, also own my first Blog at 2012 (under Wapka.Mobi
CMS) known as arewaonline.gq. After that I owe so many blogs under Blogger and
Wordpress, Recently my downed Blogs is http://katagum.com, http://ng24.com.ng
and http://thengnow.com.
At
first I know you are a blogger ever since, but later become a programmer,
right? So what took your attention to ditch blogging
Yah!
I change my decision from blogger to programmer since 2013 by some reasons
below:
- It’s ashamed to proud yourself as a Programmer or Webmaster while you’re using CMS/Blogging platforms.
- All the CMS’s Blogger.com, Wordpress, Mywapblog, Wapka were programmed by someone, so why can we owe our site under someone’s platform??
- I am a computer operator at Cyber Café, always when I visit some Nigerian site’s likes Jamb website they make impossible things to be possible, that the essence that I got to be a Programmer?
- And so many reasons.
How you define blogging and
programming? Do you think, it is useful for people like you with young age?
Yes! Its useful to people with
young age’s like me, Programming is just to think of impossible thing to be
possible, so anyone with age like me can think just to programmed.
Why did you choose to be a
programmer? was there any interesting story? Have you faced any kind of
obstacles in beginning
Just to programme something that
will be popular throughout my country, and my people to be proud of me even if
am not alive.
What programming language are you
good at and why?
PHP, Because it’s a latest
Scripting Language, I got courage to be a PHP Developer because I used some CMS
sites like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle, Mywapblog etc. all those site
where developed using PHP.
Can you tell me about your area of
focus and why you choose that area?
My focus area under programming is
Education/School things like School Portal, Grading System, E-exams Software,
E-Learning, Admission Proccessing System etc. Because we are in technological
era, where schools activities a taking up online.
What were the challenges in your
journey on starting this career and how did you overcome them?
Challenging that I’m facing is getting
a project from School/organizations, some months Back I even develop and write
a proposal to ASCOE Azare and I even present it, but till now am not hear
anything from them.
How
much time did you spend to make your first dollar online?
From 2011 to now I didn’t earn even own onedollar because am not focusing on earning since the starting point of my
blogging, at my blogging time my essence is to build website and got audience
and much traffic.
Please tell us about
your Offline Life.
My Offline life is so simplicity, I can spend a
day in my room just to research and to programmed, this is better for me and my
life, am not sitting/resting for even a 1 hour without think of what should I
do, and how can it be done.
According to You, What are the
essential requirements to become a successful blogger or programmer-Is that
technical skills or anything else?
Am not attend any Computing
Institution since 2011, that year is when I was in secondary school, and am to
attend any Blogging School/Blogging Startups. I always research about what I
wanted to do.
Apart from blogging
and programming, do you have any other blog?
How you differentiate
yourself from other Arewa blogger’s
Since I was a
blogger am not start blog just to earn, but some Arewa Blogger’s getting and
Earning platform like Adsense is the first thing to start a new blog.
Every blogger needs inspiration. Mention the names of your favorite
bloggers and blogs
For me I don’t have any favorite bloggers/blogs
What are your future
plans?
My future plans to develop something that will
help Nigerian Education Sectors, and to be most popular.
Your
Message for other Arewa bloggers and programmer’s
My Message to us is don’t proud of yourself as
a blogging owner and Adsense earner, try to get time to research and got way to
develop your own blogging platform. Means don’t depend on anyone.
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