Ali starts learning to code at 11, wanting to make a text-based game like Kings of Chaos
story · status: told 6× · last event: retold (2021-08-25) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali does freelance web development on getacoder.com as a schoolboy
About: Kings of Chaos
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-16 | told | Ali thinks that upbringing gave him and his brother an entrepreneurial mindset: from about 12 he taught himself to code and made websites for businesses and individuals for money. | Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions 00:05:35 |
| 2020-02-05 | retold | Ali taught himself to code at about 12, in secondary school, and has been building websites and trying to make businesses ever since. | How Much Money I Spend in a Week as a 25 Year Old Doctor 00:06:49 |
| 2020-04-17 | retold | Ali first learned to code around 2007, from W3Schools and snippets of JavaScript online, which he no longer recommends: coding has changed so much in 13 years that how he learned no longer matters. | Answering your Questions 00:20:10 |
| 2020-05-19 | told | To make a video game for his friends, Ali taught himself the server-side programming language PHP in 2006 from free information on the internet. | How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels 00:03:03 |
| 2021-04-22 | retold | Wanting to make a text-based online game like Kings of Chaos, which he and his school friends were addicted to, set Ali off learning to code, make websites and do web design. | The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life 00:01:12 |
| 2021-08-25 | retold | Learning to code at around 13, Ali says, was how he started on his whole journey of entrepreneurship, using free material on the internet and random books from charity shops. | How to Start a Business from Nothing 00:14:22 |
What is said about it
11 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: On 19 February 2007, aged 12, Ali emailed Robert Muchamore, author of the Cherub books, asking permission to make an online version of Cherub. — 00:01:57
- 2021-04-22 · The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life — Ali: At 11, in his school's basement computer room, Ali saw an older boy view the source of the Google homepage and decided he wanted to be a hacker. — 00:00:37
- 2021-04-22 · The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life — Ali: As a teenager, web development was the main source of excitement in Ali's life, and he started bidding for freelance web design projects to make money on the internet. — 00:01:41
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: Every year from about 13 to 18, Ali and his friend James tried to set up a new internet business; all five failed, making about 50 pounds in total. — 00:06:04
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: At 18 or 19 Ali took the lessons from those failed internet businesses into SixMed, which did very well. — 00:06:04
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali does not think there is any such thing as a self-made man: he has led a very privileged life with a lucky set of circumstances. — 00:06:33
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — announcement: Ali says he will make a video in a couple of weeks with tips for entrepreneurs. — 00:07:13
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — recommendation: Ali: For anyone interested in getting rich through entrepreneurship, Ali recommends reading The 4-Hour Workweek, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Show Your Work, The Third Door and Shoe Dog. — 00:07:13
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — announcement: Ali says his entrepreneurship video will give his top 10 lessons for entrepreneurs, and he will make it sooner if viewers comment. — 00:07:42
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali has been reading books on setting up businesses for more than 10 years and applied their lessons to his own life. — 00:07:42
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali says he does not have a girlfriend, is single and has barely been in any relationships. — 00:07:42