This post was originally published on GoDaddy.com by Canupy writer Justin Hein.

It took me more than a decade of “trying to learn” how to code to actually learn to code.

Starting in high school I had a burning desire to learn the exotic languages of computer programming. Like most, my interest began in a computer class while playing around with HTML. But it was only about a year and a half ago that I finally felt competent coding. Maybe I’m not going to blow the doors off, but man, does it feel great to say “I can code.”