Why so complicated?
My name is Adnan and I'm an IT student. I'm passionate about programming, graphic design, basketball, and something I recently discovered, blockchain.
It is very hard for me to focus on only one of these topics so you'll probably see blogs about everything I mentioned. However, I'll try to stick to programming and blockchain because that is where I think my life path will take me.
Let's start
Graphic Design
When I was 13 years old, I discovered Photoshop as a tool for graphic design. In school I was considered that kid that knows how to draw and I instantly fell in love with Photoshop and whole digital art thing.
I don't do design professionally, everything I've ever photoshopped was for fun and my satisfaction as you can see from this picture.
Programming
About at the same time I got into design, I was introduced to QBASIC in school. I wrote my first if-then-else statements in primary school. I was overwhelmed with GOTO and I believed programming is so hard and I'm too young for it. 5 years later, I wish I had more confidence. It wasn't until the end of a high school when I started to play with C++ and Java.
Now, I'm focused on Javascript and web development as I believe my design skills could boost me in this industry. (I know BASIC and Javascript are different purpose languages and here I just wanted to illustrate the syntax)
Basketball
At the age of 8 I started practicing basketball. Now I play for my university team. By the way, I'm 203 cm high (6' 8"). I play on power forward position. I appreciate great memories related to basketball, good friends and life lessons.
Blockchain
What is May 1st for you? If you live on Earth, it is International Workers' Day. For me this isn't the only special thing about that date. On May 1st 2017, after reading some news about Bitcoin, I started diving into Blockchain.
I was so amazed about the technology I haven't slept for 40 hours. I just couldn't stop reading documentations, whitepapers, documentaries and YouTube videos about it. When I understood the basic concepts, it blew my mind. All the possibilities for better society, new economy and many more with power of decentralizing value transfer.
I'm planning to learn more about developing on Ethereum. I try not to be a fanboy, so i keep an open mind and watch for similar purpose blockchains such as Stratis and EOS.io.
You can read my blog post about blockchain here where I share what I learned in first month of diving into this technology.
I hope you liked my introductory post. Feel free to comment or contact me to chat about stuff I wrote about