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So you want to become a coder. People ask me all the time: "How do I learn to code?" "How can I improve?"

Here's my definitive answer (the updated 2022 version).

I learned to code the hard way. I dropped out of school, lived with family and on friends' couches, and configured my tools from the ground up.

Don't do this!

Most people learn to code the long way. It takes them many years and they lose a lot of money and time becoming skilled.

So you want to become a coder. First let's understand what kind of coder you want to become. This will help you choose your goal and decide how to achieve it.

With our hub-and-spoke model, we ensure effective use by design. Nothing has been stolen or skimmed to-date. We ensure that donations are used regularly in the classroom, maintained and replaced as soon as possible.

In 2019, Nelly and I started working on TechLit Africa full time. We first were teaching adults how to make money online, but quickly learned that teaching kids digital skills would be more effective. Before chaning our focus, we had one major win with adults.

In 2019, Nelly and I worked hosted 1,200 kids from Mogotio in our open lab experiment. In two months, we built systems to safely and efficiently transform thousands of kids into digital natives.

In 2019 Nelly and I left our cozy corporate jobs to work on TechLit Africa full-time. Today we are completely focused on teaching digital skills in primary schools in rural Africa, but when we started we were focused on a very different solution.