My Tech Learning Journey as a Business Student

When you tell someone you are studying Business Administration, they immediately assume you only care about marketing campaigns, spreadsheets, and boardroom meetings. But as the world shifts entirely online, I realized that modern business is fundamentally built on code.

The Gap Between Management and Execution

I distinctly remember reading case studies about massive tech startups like Amazon or Daraz here in Nepal. The management theory made sense—supply chain, customer acquisition—but the actual underlying "product" (the website, the software, the databases) felt like magic to me. I didn't want it to feel like magic. I wanted to understand how it was built.

Starting with the Absolute Basics

I didn't try to become a senior software engineer overnight. I started with incredibly simple concepts:

• HTML & CSS: The building blocks. Learning how structural boxes on the internet are placed and styled. That is how this very portfolio was created!
• Logic & JavaScript: Understanding how to make an interface actually do something when a user clicks a button.
• Hosting & Domains: Figuring out how a website gets from a folder on my laptop out to the real world.

The Advantages of Bridging Both Worlds

The beauty of learning tech as a BBA student is that you develop a dual-perspective. Programmers often struggle to market their apps or find a profitable business model. Business students often have great ideas but no way to prototype them.

By understanding both, I can:

• Communicate efficiently with future technical employees or co-founders.
• Launch minimum viable products (MVPs) for my own startup ideas for zero cost.
• Understand the real unit economics behind running software products.

Conclusion

My tech learning journey is far from over. Diving into web development while studying business has been challenging, but it is unequivocally the best decision I've made for my career. It proves that you don't need a Computer Science degree to participate in the digital economy—you just need curiosity and the patience to learn.