Hey 👋 I'm Rafid Hoda
I was born in India in 1991.
At age 5, because of my dad, I got access to something others my age could only dream of.... a computer.
My dad wrote the first computer program at his college in the 1980s.
So in the 90s he became the go-to computer expert at his company.
Which allowed me to get my hands on a computer at age 5... something most kids could only dream of.
Then in 1996
We moved from India → Norway
Then I got on the Internet... 🤯
At age 9, I went from being a consumer to a creator.
It started with creating silly Pokemon movies in Microsoft Powerpoint.
But from that point on I was obsessed. Every day after school I'd spend hours learning software.
This was before YouTube—I had to learn through experimentation and library books.
By 2005, I had taught myself...
Then 3 things happened right after each other:
First Sale
Sold my first website for $200 to my music teacher's punk rock band
Film Award
My short film won an award at the Kosmorama film festival in Trondheim
Viral Success
My video tutorial went viral and brought 15K unique monthly users to my website
Google, Facebook, YouTube...
the future looked bright.
My Mission
With Hoda Camps, I want to inspire kids around the world to get comfortable with the computer and start using it to build their own games, create their own videos, code their own apps.
I want every student to leave my camps inspired because an entirely new world has opened up to them.