At the beginning
Computer science
- How a program is built, step by step, and why it works
- The mathematics and logic underneath it
- Reading other people's code to learn how to write mine
Next: a first small program that does something genuinely useful.
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Abdelaziz Agouram
Nineteen years old, from Agoulmim Iznaguen village in the Ouarzazate province of Morocco. I study computer engineering at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology in Errachidia.
- 19 years old
- Agoulmim Iznaguen, Ouarzazate
- FST Errachidia
- Beginner in programming
Home: Agoulmim Iznaguen Studies: Errachidia
The road I take
From the village where I grew up to the city where I study.
Agoulmim Iznaguen Ouarzazate province, southern Morocco
Errachidia Faculty of Sciences and Techniques
I come from a village
My name is Abdelaziz Agouram. I am 19 years old and I come from Agoulmim Iznaguen, a village in the Ouarzazate province of Morocco.
It is a small Amazigh village in the south, where the fields are stepped into the hillside and the river decides how the year will go. At home we speak Tamazight and Arabic. Those are the two languages I think in.
I am interested in computer science, design and app development, and I am a beginner in programming. I would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise: I am at the beginning of this, and every week I understand a little more.
- Home village
- Agoulmim Iznaguen, Ouarzazate province
- Age
- 19
- Mother languages
- Tamazight and Arabic
- Region
- Drâa-Tafilalet, southern Morocco
What I study now
Most of my work is the base: mathematics, the fundamentals of programming, and learning to think in steps. It is the part every engineer has to go through, and I am in the middle of it.
- Where
- Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Errachidia
- Field
- Computer engineering
- Year
- My second year in the FSt.
- What I use
- A lot of paper, and a laptop I am slowly learning
What I want to learn
Three things I keep coming back to. These are interests, not achievements, and I have written down where I really am in each of them.
Practising
Design
- Laying a screen out so it is easy to read
- Type, colour and empty space: why one page feels calm and another does not
- Looking closely at good sites, then trying it myself
Next: designing the screens of my own app.
Starting
App development
- The goal: an app that people around me would actually use
- What happens between the screen and the data behind it
- Finishing small things instead of starting big ones
Next: publish my first app and put it on this page.
The languages I speak
Two are the languages of my home, two are the ones I use for study and for code, and one is new.
Tamazight ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
Mother language
The language of my village and my family, written in Tifinagh.
Arabic العربية
Mother language
My second language at home and the language of school from the first year.
French
Medium
I use it for my studies and for reading about my field.
English
Medium
The language of most documentation, tutorials and code, so I read and listen to it every day.
Spanish
Beginner
Just starting, and I would like a third language to work in one day.