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Thanks! Entry noted. :)

Yeah, great guy. Honestly, even for those younger people I think it's a marathon. They just don't get told that up front so they have poor expectations.

Awesome! Thanks!

Honestly, I've seen a lot of people doing that on linkedIn and I've never really understood it. I know there may be a level of accountability there, but I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on why it's beneficial.

Thanks! Glad you found it helpful.

IMO, building real projects. It sounds like you have a programming job already? The main thing to move your career along is experience. Knowledge comes the more you experience things because you are forced to learn new things as you experience new things. The more you experience, the more confidence you will have in what you know AND your ability to learn new things in the future.

@@devmentordave Yes, I am currently working part time with a very early startup company. After gathering more experience, is there any more criteria I can use to judge preparedness to become higher or I am to judge myself by comparing my level with mid level and Senior developers that I have interacted with.

LOL! If you're referring to THE clean code... me either... at least not completely...

@@devmentordave I do like some concepts and using various design patterns but I don't like dealing with abstraction level > 3. I liked I did not do anything in the video :haha:

I completely agree. Seems like everyone commenting doesn't write messy code. I must have only ever worked with bad devs... ;) or maybe people are being trained better these days. LOL

Shorts reach a specific type of viewer and that's not really who I'm trying to reach. I get that longer content isn't for everyone and that some of what I say isn't going to appeal or apply, but it's who I am. :) At the end of the day, this is about finding the people I can help with what I know or have experienced, so the channel size doesn't matter in the end. But it's nice to get more people involved! LOL

@@devmentordave I completely understand your desire to target a certain niche. And I do agree with your points from the video. However shape of it seems a bit ironic because in code, as far as I know, best practices are aimed to ultimately save time - either it is user's, stakeholder's or dev's time. So it's interesting that in video-making you've chose the opposite strategy instead of taking an opportunity to apply existing skill and run some optimization (loss-less of-course). Anyways it is nice to hear new voices uplifting newcomers, so I hope you'll find your people!

@@cloynelson2974 There is a difference in the process of writing code, specifically for a production product as you mentioned, and in learning how and why to write that code. Learning should be done in the most advantageous way for the learner to not just have facts, but understand why something is good or bad, desirable or undesirable. You can't conflate work with learning, they are two separate avenues of the journey. One depends on the other, but is not the same as the other. Learning always requires more time and the better you learn, not just the what, but the why, the faster you will make the right decisions in your work. So, taking time to provide examples or explain something in more detail ultimately achieves exactly what you want... informed, quick, decisive code writing.

Doggonnit, you were the one I was targeting too! Shoot. Missed again. If it doesn’t apply, it doesn’t apply. Share it with someone you know who could use it. My videos are based on my experience and knowledge. I’ve not seen one perfectly clean codebase in almost 20 years of development. Doesn’t mean it can’t happen, just means you are rare. So celebrate your uniqueness!

​@@devmentordave i get what you mean and try to do, IMHO educational video aren't sale pitch, no need that much shock value. technical programming video isn't going to get a lot of views unless stir up controversy, but that is no longer a good educational video. If views is your goal, i think you are misguided. not that my code are 100% "clean", sometime things fall through the cracks but i try.

@@tsunekakou1275 I think we have to be careful about assigning motives simply based on our perceptions. The purpose of youtube is to reach a broad audience with whatever it is you are doing. So, setting up your content in a way that is attractive to your target audience takes time and experimentation. Not all of them are ringers. However, to say that one shouldn't seek views to build that audience to fulfill their other goals is misguided as well. My goal isn't views. My goal is to help a certain demographic with the information I want to communicate. If no-one sees that content it's not helping anyone and is ultimately a waste of my time. Just putting up videos doesn't guarantee anyone will see it. It takes a concerted effort to attract the audience you want to interact with. You may not be that audience, and that's fine. However, I think assuming that I'm only in it for the views simply because I try different well-known and used approaches is short-sighted. Of course, you're welcome to your opinion, but I would look at a lot of my other videos and compare them. I think you'll see that I'm learning and growing too. I'm trying to find the best use of my limited time to reach the most people with what I hope is helpful information. It's not flashy, but at least, hopefully, it's genuine.

Did you mean "not." Sorry, just trying to make sure I understand. I was trying to keep this shorter. I could show examples of code if that's what you're saying. I'll think about that for the future.

@@devmentordave Yeah example code would be especially useful to your target audience that need to be told this stuff. Wouldn't need to make the video longer, in fact it could be optionally explained even faster with some showing, not just telling. Would make the video more interesting too. Even most debates amongst highly experienced devs are often confused when they talk in an abstracted way without examples. People usually have very different things in mind, even when they're using the exact same words.

I hear ya. I'm not just here to build a channel, but part of having a channel is getting views. I think you can tell from my history that I'm not usually too clickbate oriented, but hey... hopefully others at least find the thoughts helpful. That's the point. If I can help Jr. Devs not do something that I've seen in every codebase I've looked at... then it's good for me.

You're just a smart-ass that not even uses an actual terminal

I don’t but a lot of Jr Devs use those horrible devices… 😂

@@devmentordave True I'm in college now although I work doing programming. My lecturers don't know Git... so guess what, they don't teach it, or any concepts of version control in general. So many of friends don't even know what it is despite being in Comp Sci, even though it's basically ubiquitous in software projects at this point. I think it leads to the case when devs do start working they have to start using Git basically from day 1.

The source control GUI panel in VS code is really nice for cherry picking which files to stage before committing. I still do all other commands through the terminal tho

Free membership on my channel? I don't have any set up so not sure why they would popup.

@@devmentordave XD no not on your channel, but I get them pop up all the time

By holiday, you mean observed holiday or vacation? Probably not. :)

I would have to do some research but I assume that most billionaires don’t run their companies. Usually boards run the companies. So they probably are not in the weeds of operations. They also are probably more worried about their own increase of wealth than they are the betterment of others or even the betterment of their industry… at least in terms of the people. Sure they spend a lot of money on tech advances but not necessarily in the future of the labor force. It just isn’t their passion like it is for those of us with no way to fund what we think could benefit the industry the most both now and in the future. That’s why the tax incentive is unfortunately probably the best way to raise funds from them since they obviously are not concerned about the need on their own. Just look at what they spend their money on including charitable funds and you will find where their focus lies.

@@devmentordave I see, so to get the tech billionaires involved it would have to be setup as a charity. So like Code Org but only for adults?

They know me well enough to know when I’m joking! lol

:)

You won't see me writing any! LOL

Thanks for the encouragement.

Oi. Nothing but trouble on the discord link. Here is the updated one: discord.gg/RZJVkVUXSD

​@@devmentordave thank you

So, the idea is that it doesn't have to be a paid freelance project that has high expectations. The point is to do your learning and practicing with the goal of meeting someone else's needs. That's what freelancing is. Doing a project for someone else. It can be pro-bono while you are learning. You probably can't do this out of the gate, but once you feel comfortable with your own projects you should branch out so you can use the freelance hack. :)

@@devmentordave thanks

I know there are quite a few companies that will outsource outside the U.S. Good luck in your journey!

Well it's actually the Laravel framework handling the routing, not PHP natively.

@@devmentordave I find physics more interesting than web development. I also know that the gaming industry is severely lacking physicists.

I think many Jr. Devs would join a program like this if they could. The key is getting buy-in from whoever we can to support it. It would be great to get to a point where it could sustain itself through projects, but not sure if that's viable.

Yeah, the key is funding. I've actually worked with some an while there is a lot of opportunities for clients, many/most are not in a position to actually pay well enough to do what needs to be done from a pay scale. But I like where your mind is. Maybe in the coming years we can get something started.

Not to start a debate, but I highly disagree. Hence the concept of a 501c3 option to give business owners a tax break for supporting their future. I've found most 'businesses' run by the government run inefficiently and end up being a waste of taxpayer money.

lol this is the dumbest thing i've heard all day. stop job market crisis by state funded businesses.

LOL I certainly wouldn't say obsessed. They just happen to be some of my "nicer" ones. Honestly most of them were given to me by others (who are more into it than I am), though I do like it. I haven't even watched any of the last 2 or 3 things Disney has put out. So, I wouldn't say obsessed. Believe me, there are a lot of things "grown men" get obsessed over that are much worse. :)

LOL Well played.

I'm finding there are a lot more of us than I knew these days. Nowadays everyone's story will be, "I went to a boot camp and couldn't find a job for 3 years." :(

LOL Awesome. Then no-one will know how good it is, including you. Brilliant!

LOL Glad you enjoyed it. You gotta have some fun every once in a while. :)

Thanks, we can all dream, right? lol

@@devmentordave ha!

You will learn to love it

True, but if you know what scares them you can relieve that fear to some degree and show them you are not necessarily loyal, but at least trustworthy and eager to become indispensable