Hey man! Since I started watching you back in January, I started applying to paid internships as a first year student. After 2 projects, 40 applications, 10 technical tests, 10 online interviews, i finally got a paid internship as a frontend React developer. It would've been so much harder without your videos. Thanks a lot. I'm sure there's so many more people in my situation, and on behalf of them too, THANK YOU
I'm happy to hear that! You put in the work and deserve all the credit, but I'll accept the compliment. Thanks! And good luck at your first internship!
@@Jacobyxt well in Romania it's unusual, but not impossible to get a first year internship. First off, did a lot of algorithmics(C/C++) in highschool, but I was never good at it(couldn't solve in contest time for shit). Then, between highschool and uni(like 3 momths) I started crunching web dev courses and trying to mimic what they did. Wasn't passionate enough, until I used web development as procrastination from uni courses. I made a mobile app using Ionic and Angular which integrates the Google image recognition api and lets you scan receipts into text form and creates statistics based on the products. And another one, using react mainly(other things i just followed tutorials cuz i knew i couldnt land a fullstack job so i went for frontend) and nodejs, jquery, etc, i made a site for a hotel, where i mainly focused in showing my css prowess(cool loading animations, responsive pages etc).
One other thing I'd add: documentation. Because at some point in your tenure at your workplace, someone else is going to work on your code. And you don't want to be asked what kind of drugs you were on, and are they legal in Colorado.
No, read uncle Bob's clean code on comments. They are basically, foremost, explanations of bad code. Make your code explain itself. Learn the design patterns, use their names correctly so we directly know what the code supposed to do. And write the test!
@@martinbakker7615 Generally, I agree. Sadly, most developers aren't at that level of thinking through their work. It's a skill that needs to be practiced regularly.
Your good man, I'm 32 and still a year away from completing my computer science degree. Like you said better late than never lol. But yeah, I too wish I started earlier.
Great takeaway Forrest! Soft skills essentially boils down to “Just be a good human being” and “Don’t be an a**hole”. Totally agree with you on this! Because empathy and the compassion to help a fellow peer naturally follows.
@@FahadAli-ot5kn i dont agree. Theres humanity in coding. Computers are so mindlessly dumb it loses the feel of humans. But humans have to become so dumb it seems robotic.
So true about the algorithm/interview stuff. It pains me that we use obscure, advanced algorithms to judge someone's ability to be an effective software developer.
37 and started learning code about 6 months ago in the most untraditional path possible. Didn't start with education. Started taking completed code, combine it it with similar code. Create a dumpster fire that doesn't work, then try and fix it without know what any of it means. After doing that with 3 different languages (in order: Rust, Python, JS) many times. I started over with guide books. Now im finally starting a foundations of JS course. Now will learn some, build something, then break it and start this mad process over again. My coding mentor's ADHD hates my process. But I feel I've learned exponentially more in the last 6 months than following traditional learning paths .
Right now, I'm in my last year of high school. Summer, next year, I'm going to be spat out of my school into the unknown. But, I know exactly what I want to do with my life going forward. I've been taking programming classes ever since my first taste in middle school with an incredibly basic robotics class. Then, going into high school, I've been learning as much as I can. I've taken every course I could relating to the subject at my high school, I've been making relatively simple projects on my laptop at home in my free time, I've made a couple websites with my friends, and I'm confident this is what I want to do with the rest of my life. The only issue is I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to get there. Going to university, getting a job, et cetera. It's all complicated, and I feel dead in the water. Your channel has been a life preserver for me. Thank you.
Ok ... I HAVE to just pause the video @ around 13 mins... just to say .. THANK YOU. Dude... immediate sub and like. I am an IT professional tryi.... Switching career paths. I "know" or "know of" these things but you made it so simple and easy to understand. You ROCK dude! Keep up the good work and I look forward to more of your content!
This sums up what I encountered on my first dev job. Except I don't think we used code analysis tool. Also the soft skills part you talked about really hit home for me. I never thought that could pose a challenge until I worked in a team. Thanks for the video.
Started in Full Stack Development two years ago. Stumbled upon your video just now at random and I have to say, the information and wisdom in each video is invaluable. Appreciate it bro. Helps remove some of the stigmas and fears of starting a job in this industry.
Hey, are you still into development? I am a beginner, learning react. I have been learning web dev for years and the only challenge I face is the complexity of JavaScript. I have learnt C and a bit of Python in the past. C is so consistent in its syntax but JS is just a mix of everything! some methods and functions are really not easy to understand on learning for the first time! How did you get around such challenges?
The social network definitely inspired a generation I remember watching that movie and especially the hacking scene. It made sitting behind a keyboard and breaking out emacs look so damn awesome. One of the reasons I chose php as my first language, Im definitely nowhere near where I want to be when it comes to coding , but nowhere near giving up.
Regarding project management, the best project management tool I've used for personal projects is post-it notes. Physical or digital, I don't over-complicate it, just a list of "stuff to do" and "stuff done" essentially. Sometimes I use color-coding for types of tasks like infrastructure, application, admin, etc.
Thank you sir. O7. I start school on the 21st. I’m terrified because I struggled with math all my life. But I’m embracing the struggle and charging in. Wish me luck 💪🏾
Holy crap we have a really similar story of how we got into it. I was obsessed with computers when I was young, first got stuck in at 7/8 with an old Amstrad CPC464 then learned some basic HTML and JS at 12 as the idea that I could make the computer do stuff and then let others see it was fascinating to me. Then at about 16 or so I just kinda stopped for a few years, went to university did Mathematics, kept taking out coding books though as the bug got me again, halfway into my degree my maths tutor took me aside and said "Look your results are dissapointing against what I know you can do but I don't think it's because you're being lazy, I get the feeling there's something else you want to do?" and that shoved me into Computer Science a week later (Had some family stuff going on so had to move home which delayed it) Fast forward 10 years from there I'm now still working as a developer and love it but like yourself I wish I didn't stop for those 5/6 years and wonder where I could be had I not.
I should add that Maths Lecturer and my CompSci tutor I feel like I'm always indebted too really, would've been very easy for them to just decide my worsening results were due to being lazy rather than getting to the root of it and sorting it out.
Super helpful video! Just starting a new job soon and found this really great for brushing up on aspects of the job I should prep for on top of the basics.
Hey man love the videos, gives me hope for a future while I’m struggling through school. Funny enough, played WoW since I was a kid and fell in love with computers for the same reason and now I am Senior CS Major at ODU too!
Love this. This is spot on to how I approach coding. Coding is not just a job it can have a huge impact on the world and even those closest to you. How can we make the world and the processes with it more efficient and less cumbersome for everyone.
Just started my first developer job last Monday and man, this video really nails it for my experience so far. My first stand up I was like "what is sonar??" Thanks for this video!!
@@ducksauce0074 All depends on your interests - if you're interested in web development, I would recommend learning JavaScript. But for game development, I would say check out Unity and learn C#. The good news is the basics are the same with any language.. variables, if/then conditions, loops, etc. :)
Tron Legacy was what got me first interested. Not the corny digital world stuff, but the few times they show a terminal in the beginning of the film- it always looked so cryptic and intriguing.
Not sure where this fits, but one on the things that I have learned in the many years that I have been programming is that you need to make your code robust. In this I mean that your code is originally written in a manner that precludes problems. Think about the code and how it operates - this is especially true in Multitasking systems. Never assume that a piece of code will never be changed - that is probably the first one that will be changed. I could go on but the one rule that I try to always follow is - Write the code and document the code so that someone else can come along and understand what you are doing. In my work that person was most likely myself years later when there is some issue. So having well documented code saves me considerable pain.
Excellent video. Thank you ❤️ If you follow up with details about every aspect it would be the perfect mini course 🎯 i. e. : Part I: Programming aspects to master: primitive types, structures, oob, network, multi-threading, api usage,.. etc. with examples in some programming language. Only the general ideas, like 15~20 minutes video. Part II: git, code management, sonarqube,.. etc. like things that improve and organize programmer's work. Part |||: CI/CD dev/prod isolation, deployment automation,.. stuff like that. Part IV: Building portfolio, finding problems to solve, inspiration..etc. Thanks again 🙏
Going for promotion in my own field; has NOTHING to do with coding. I will be using all of these examples of communication and empathy in my own promotion panel. Thanks dude
I am in high school and have been learning coding on my own could you please put a video focusing on aspiring Computer Scientists(like high schoolers) and what should they do and how should they do it 🙏
If u ever have to use one of the implementations of any advanced algorithm u are forced to use a library that implements said algorithm anyway, since it is usually optimized to the max and u programming it on ur own is 99,999999% of the time just a huge waste of time
I love your videos. you speak what aspiring developers would love to hear ... so they can get better... more skilled...thank you. this is going to help me a lot.. to get back
I recommend learning how to actually read and understand documentation rather than relying on a specific stack overflow to tell you how to write your niche methods
Man SAME - just got to the part about the xbox avatar (and maybe MW2 10th prestige lobbies) lol brought back many memories of tinkering back when i was younger.
I know this vid is 1 month old as of now, but I want to clarify something: when it comes to "creating something no one else can" (and even more in programmig), it does not depend that much on how much you know, or how many years you've been coding. No. It moslty depends on your creativity. If you have the idea, then making it happening is just studying. That's the easy part, because anyone can do that. Anyone can google how to loop through an array or take a free online course, but no one in the entire world had the idea YOU have, and that's what matters the most.
A failed my coding test the past winter term, and it was not because I did not know how to code but the kind of system we are living in. I passed all my assignments with 95 and I got 92 in my midterm. However, I failed because of the final exam. My mental health was getting worse due to the amount of pressure I was having from my other courses, so I decided I wouldn’t give a fuck, and I failed the test. It is very surprising how everything you have been working on just fell apart because of a stupid final piece of paper. I will continue working on my goal, but this time will be different.
Thanks for the time means a lot I will slowly work my way towards perfection alothough I’m not perfect I seem to be grasping this coding concept I’m going to educate myself a little more but great video overall thanks again ps idk if it’s me or you but you seem to be helping out a lot shows a lot of character and well it’s much needed where I’m from …. Anyway (waving hand emoji)
As soon as you start learning to code, I mean the day of, start applying to companies and honing in those interview skills. Cause at the end of the day, you don’t get hired by knowing how to code, but by conducting a great interview.
This is superb advice for newbies but I disagree with not using git for personal projects. I'm like borderline ocd with using git every time I do anything. I like having stuff and looking back on it years later and seeing my thought process in the commit history. No matter how much I think I improve the years the me of 2 years prior is someone I always find cringe hahaha.
Hey! Feeling super inspired thank you so much! I know little to nothing about computers I feel like but for some reason this keeps coming to me and everything I've read about the type of person who likes this kind of thing is me! Do you feel like it's fun for you? I don't want to dread working and this feels like it would seem very mentally stimulating and kind of fun!
Just described my experience in my internship over the summer. That 3 months benefited my significantly more than school. At least a year of school would be needed to make me feel remotely the same competency way wise compared to the internship
What's sad is up until I was 13 I had no access to technology, then as soon as I got my first phone (it was a flip phone), my brain bursted with interest and ideas towards technology, and now I'm trying to learn about software and programming!
I hear that learning to code "the basics" or "self taught for a year or less" and getting a Job is happening just in USA! I wanted to mention this, because I'm 36 and have more then 10 years experience in programming, I've done many projects on my own "as freelance", I've my own Portfolio online which I build my self, I even have a computer science degree 4 Years..... But, I Still can't get a Job here where I live, it's almost 3 years now! You may ask why, well the answer is: "it's allways that something missing", you know PHP, Javascript, css, C#, I would say mid level, but allways at the end, really allways they say: "well you know all of this, you have ton of project's, CS degree, but we need a senior Laravel Developer, or senior React, Angular etc. Sorry for the Long comment, but I love this channel and I wanted you to know the story.
I believe you're the only guy I felt was telling the truth. Most of these videos are complete mainstream media format or bluntly lying about how it works in the industry, lots of people pretend it's amazing and hide the boring parts. Project Management IS boring, if you are a coder you don't want to think about administrative, management stuff, you just want to figure out problems and code away. I'm not part of the industry but I do have tech based routines and knows plenty of ppl who works in the industry, I study at home and developed a project for a couple months. I had to do Project Management a bit, enough to not get confused about what I was making and it's great when you're doing something to yourself, but it sucks when you're making stuff to others. It's still a job and most people think it's playtime. "I play ping pong with my coworkers", "I take my dog to my work, everyone pets the dog", like a fairytale.
Love the content! Got my first software engineering internship going into my junior year of college starting in about two weeks perfect timing for a video like this.
I was just on Clement’s video about the same subject and when I saw you put his face up I thought my brain was mixing things up and I was on the same video for a second
Just discovered this video and just suscribed to your channel. Amazing content and i only have 21 channels that im suscribed to, im very exclusive with my YT algorithm... Keep doing content. Amazing !
46 year old woman and I am looking to switch careers and get in to coding. I am currently in the process of going through the admittance process because they have a scholarship program. Hopefully i am accepted. Ty for the video.
The first thing you need to know is no matter how much programming experience you might have, the person rejecting your resume even without interviewing you is mostly the one who has never written a single line of code in her entire life.
Youre a legend. One of your most actionable and helpful vids! Im finishing up codeacademy full stack course and a lot of the technologies and methods you discussed i never knew about. Thanks a lot 😃
RE: Soft skills -- As an Agile Coach, most of what I do is helping engineers improve their teamwork and communication. Developers frequently tell me, "I don't need soft skills, I'm a developer. This teamwork stuff is lame, " or some variation thereof. If that's what you think, you're in the wrong business.
Great video but wasn't what I was expecting to watch. As an android developer I have always felt quite confined in that role and would love to venture out. Build a server backend for my own application etc, but don't know where to start to do so. Deployment, best languages etc etc, that's kind of what I thought this video was aiming for.
I would say start with nodejs with express as the framework. very simple to spin up a server and start learning REST API's. then from there, understand databases. You could go Relational using MYSQL, Postgres or my favorite which is NoSQL using MongoDB. much simpler to model databases as it uses object documentation. Then you'll want to integrate authentication. you could use jwt (token-auth) or session storage (passport etc...) both methods are integrated differently and follow the stateless / stateful method of auth on the server to client. That's it really. you could then try different server-side languages applying what you've learned. Perhaps python using the django framework.
28 here been in the the network industry for the last 5 years or so but started going back to school for software engineer and I won’t lie I’m a bit nervous about it and my ability to code. I am doing C# right no and I’m not sure if it’s just my teacher or me but I find myself having to look up things a lot for the projects he gives. Not that I cheat or anything I just look for solutions and it seems there are so many ways to accomplish one task. And not to mention I have no idea why I should learn on my free time. All I do know is I’m nervous and not sure if I should make the jump to this.
First great video, I mean it truly! Furthermore there is so much miss information regarding “GIT” God! Because there are so many companies that who offer their own way of “GIT” solution that there isn’t mention that they just make an skeleton to use the “Git Command Line Version Control”
Me after The Social Network movie: i wanna to create things that no one else could create
Also me after years of education: here is my ToDo list app
still i can't find a good to-do list app.
@@Thavi use Microsoft to do app
@@Thavi make yours.
@@Thavi notion.so? asana?
Really a to do app after 4 years? How come? Not a lot of imagination or not enough talent or not enough time to spend on coding?
Hey man! Since I started watching you back in January, I started applying to paid internships as a first year student. After 2 projects, 40 applications, 10 technical tests, 10 online interviews, i finally got a paid internship as a frontend React developer. It would've been so much harder without your videos. Thanks a lot. I'm sure there's so many more people in my situation, and on behalf of them too, THANK YOU
I'm happy for you man, go for it!
can you tell me about your applications/projects and how you managed to land an internship as a first year?
I'm happy to hear that! You put in the work and deserve all the credit, but I'll accept the compliment. Thanks! And good luck at your first internship!
Congratz man. I also had 2 projects when I got my first dev internship. I guess 2 is the magic number huh?
@@Jacobyxt well in Romania it's unusual, but not impossible to get a first year internship. First off, did a lot of algorithmics(C/C++) in highschool, but I was never good at it(couldn't solve in contest time for shit). Then, between highschool and uni(like 3 momths) I started crunching web dev courses and trying to mimic what they did. Wasn't passionate enough, until I used web development as procrastination from uni courses. I made a mobile app using Ionic and Angular which integrates the Google image recognition api and lets you scan receipts into text form and creates statistics based on the products. And another one, using react mainly(other things i just followed tutorials cuz i knew i couldnt land a fullstack job so i went for frontend) and nodejs, jquery, etc, i made a site for a hotel, where i mainly focused in showing my css prowess(cool loading animations, responsive pages etc).
One other thing I'd add: documentation.
Because at some point in your tenure at your workplace, someone else is going to work on your code. And you don't want to be asked what kind of drugs you were on, and are they legal in Colorado.
Yes! and Comments. I respect code with comments
No, read uncle Bob's clean code on comments. They are basically, foremost, explanations of bad code. Make your code explain itself. Learn the design patterns, use their names correctly so we directly know what the code supposed to do. And write the test!
@@martinbakker7615 Generally, I agree.
Sadly, most developers aren't at that level of thinking through their work. It's a skill that needs to be practiced regularly.
@@RiZeLegiT exactly!! You said it right!!
@@martinbakker7615 I gotta check that book out.
I'm 24 and I'm just starting to learn, I wish I started earlier but hey, better late than never.
Same
Damn you're so old lmao
That's the spirit, dude! Keep at it :)
Ur not old. Ur very young
Your good man, I'm 32 and still a year away from completing my computer science degree. Like you said better late than never lol. But yeah, I too wish I started earlier.
Great takeaway Forrest! Soft skills essentially boils down to “Just be a good human being” and “Don’t be an a**hole”. Totally agree with you on this! Because empathy and the compassion to help a fellow peer naturally follows.
That's just blatantly false and misleading people.
@@Starioshka no it isn’t, as long as it’s genuine
“Soft skills = be a better human being”. Lol best definition ever.
but is there any human live in coding..progammers are not human when they started their work...
Not really… it’s more like “appear to be a good highly charismatic human being”
@@sorvex9 No, it's about teamwork. Watch the video again.
@@FahadAli-ot5kn i dont agree. Theres humanity in coding. Computers are so mindlessly dumb it loses the feel of humans. But humans have to become so dumb it seems robotic.
I totally agree with you.
I'm starting an internship in about a month, and this video is extremely helpful. Thank you so much, Forrest
You don't like to talk about soft skills, but you clearly have soft skills. Thanks for the tips !
You learn very very quickly that soft skills are vital lol. Everything you have to do is based off of your communication with others pretty much.
So true about the algorithm/interview stuff. It pains me that we use obscure, advanced algorithms to judge someone's ability to be an effective software developer.
Fucking HR
37 and started learning code about 6 months ago in the most untraditional path possible. Didn't start with education. Started taking completed code, combine it it with similar code. Create a dumpster fire that doesn't work, then try and fix it without know what any of it means. After doing that with 3 different languages (in order: Rust, Python, JS) many times. I started over with guide books. Now im finally starting a foundations of JS course. Now will learn some, build something, then break it and start this mad process over again. My coding mentor's ADHD hates my process. But I feel I've learned exponentially more in the last 6 months than following traditional learning paths .
Right now, I'm in my last year of high school. Summer, next year, I'm going to be spat out of my school into the unknown. But, I know exactly what I want to do with my life going forward. I've been taking programming classes ever since my first taste in middle school with an incredibly basic robotics class. Then, going into high school, I've been learning as much as I can. I've taken every course I could relating to the subject at my high school, I've been making relatively simple projects on my laptop at home in my free time, I've made a couple websites with my friends, and I'm confident this is what I want to do with the rest of my life.
The only issue is I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to get there. Going to university, getting a job, et cetera. It's all complicated, and I feel dead in the water.
Your channel has been a life preserver for me. Thank you.
Im with you man
Ok ... I HAVE to just pause the video @ around 13 mins... just to say .. THANK YOU. Dude... immediate sub and like. I am an IT professional tryi.... Switching career paths. I "know" or "know of" these things but you made it so simple and easy to understand. You ROCK dude! Keep up the good work and I look forward to more of your content!
At its perfect timing bro. I've just landed my first job and will start on june 1st needed that so much
Congrats dude. What's the position/company? I will hopefully be a first time employee after my master's.
This sums up what I encountered on my first dev job. Except I don't think we used code analysis tool.
Also the soft skills part you talked about really hit home for me. I never thought that could pose a challenge until I worked in a team. Thanks for the video.
New record of fastest subscription. Having someone put you through with your interest at heart is priceless 💯
Started in Full Stack Development two years ago. Stumbled upon your video just now at random and I have to say, the information and wisdom in each video is invaluable. Appreciate it bro. Helps remove some of the stigmas and fears of starting a job in this industry.
Hey, are you still into development? I am a beginner, learning react. I have been learning web dev for years and the only challenge I face is the complexity of JavaScript.
I have learnt C and a bit of Python in the past. C is so consistent in its syntax but JS is just a mix of everything! some methods and functions are really not easy to understand on learning for the first time! How did you get around such challenges?
The social network definitely inspired a generation I remember watching that movie and especially the hacking scene. It made sitting behind a keyboard and breaking out emacs look so damn awesome. One of the reasons I chose php as my first language, Im definitely nowhere near where I want to be when it comes to coding , but nowhere near giving up.
TheSocialNetwork was for developers what Rounders was for poker players.
Both kinda hooked me.
@@DarrenJohn10X so you both
Regarding project management, the best project management tool I've used for personal projects is post-it notes. Physical or digital, I don't over-complicate it, just a list of "stuff to do" and "stuff done" essentially. Sometimes I use color-coding for types of tasks like infrastructure, application, admin, etc.
This was very helpful, been working for 10 months at a small start up and I can see myself implementing alot of these tips.
Thanks!
Thank you sir. O7. I start school on the 21st. I’m terrified because I struggled with math all my life.
But I’m embracing the struggle and charging in. Wish me luck 💪🏾
I feel like I'm going to be watching this again at some point lol so much good info.
Same here, saved it for another rewatch at another time haha
1 year full stack web developer and this video helped me a lot. Thank you 🙏
Did you notice how every idiot who can't even compile hello world without errors calls himself "full stack developer" these days? ;-)
@@lepidoptera9337everyone starts somewhere bro
men, I hadn't subscribed to you, I would have probably not known where to start. I appreciate this wise information!
Holy crap we have a really similar story of how we got into it. I was obsessed with computers when I was young, first got stuck in at 7/8 with an old Amstrad CPC464 then learned some basic HTML and JS at 12 as the idea that I could make the computer do stuff and then let others see it was fascinating to me. Then at about 16 or so I just kinda stopped for a few years, went to university did Mathematics, kept taking out coding books though as the bug got me again, halfway into my degree my maths tutor took me aside and said "Look your results are dissapointing against what I know you can do but I don't think it's because you're being lazy, I get the feeling there's something else you want to do?" and that shoved me into Computer Science a week later (Had some family stuff going on so had to move home which delayed it)
Fast forward 10 years from there I'm now still working as a developer and love it but like yourself I wish I didn't stop for those 5/6 years and wonder where I could be had I not.
I should add that Maths Lecturer and my CompSci tutor I feel like I'm always indebted too really, would've been very easy for them to just decide my worsening results were due to being lazy rather than getting to the root of it and sorting it out.
Super helpful video! Just starting a new job soon and found this really great for brushing up on aspects of the job I should prep for on top of the basics.
Hey man love the videos, gives me hope for a future while I’m struggling through school. Funny enough, played WoW since I was a kid and fell in love with computers for the same reason and now I am Senior CS Major at ODU too!
Thanks for this! Your videos convinced me to make the jump from biology to bioinformatics and have been a very helpful guide!
Are you trying to catch these hands in typeracer @Forrest?? I heard that brag about 100 wpm at 12 yrs old
You're light work. Screw this RUclips boxing stuff. RUclips TypeRacer and I'll show you I'm the best!
@@fknight has your typing speed significantly improved since then, or is it about the same? When I was 12, I had ~80 wpm
I am 20 and mine typing speed was 15wpm 3 months ago 😂😂 now it is 60 (now it is 73 )
@@prakharposwal9 15 --> 60 is much easier than 60 --> 105 or 105 --> 150
@@mskyba you don't say :)
you are one of the most logical person i have ever seen
this guy logics
Love this. This is spot on to how I approach coding. Coding is not just a job it can have a huge impact on the world and even those closest to you. How can we make the world and the processes with it more efficient and less cumbersome for everyone.
Just started my first developer job last Monday and man, this video really nails it for my experience so far. My first stand up I was like "what is sonar??" Thanks for this video!!
I just started learning at 27. Is that a bad age to start?
@@ducksauce0074 Not at all, go for it!
@@clockwerkz thanks man. Any tips on which language i should start with?
@@ducksauce0074 All depends on your interests - if you're interested in web development, I would recommend learning JavaScript. But for game development, I would say check out Unity and learn C#.
The good news is the basics are the same with any language.. variables, if/then conditions, loops, etc. :)
Tron Legacy was what got me first interested. Not the corny digital world stuff, but the few times they show a terminal in the beginning of the film- it always looked so cryptic and intriguing.
Not sure where this fits, but one on the things that I have learned in the many years that I have been programming is that you need to make your code robust. In this I mean that your code is originally written in a manner that precludes problems. Think about the code and how it operates - this is especially true in Multitasking systems. Never assume that a piece of code will never be changed - that is probably the first one that will be changed. I could go on but the one rule that I try to always follow is - Write the code and document the code so that someone else can come along and understand what you are doing. In my work that person was most likely myself years later when there is some issue. So having well documented code saves me considerable pain.
I really enjoyed watching your video thank you. I've subscribed, you are the first youtuber that I don't find annoying :)
I love this video-summary 🎉 Very realistic and accurate!
I like your straightforward approach to explaining soft skills / communication :)
Thank you so much!
Forrest, every one of your videos inspires me. Thank you.
Thank YOU!
I really want to become a software engineer and your videos really helps thanks man💖
Excellent video. Thank you ❤️
If you follow up with details about every aspect it would be the perfect mini course 🎯
i. e. : Part I: Programming aspects to master: primitive types, structures, oob, network, multi-threading, api usage,.. etc. with examples in some programming language. Only the general ideas, like 15~20 minutes video.
Part II: git, code management, sonarqube,.. etc. like things that improve and organize programmer's work.
Part |||: CI/CD dev/prod isolation, deployment automation,.. stuff like that.
Part IV: Building portfolio, finding problems to solve, inspiration..etc.
Thanks again 🙏
Going for promotion in my own field; has NOTHING to do with coding. I will be using all of these examples of communication and empathy in my own promotion panel. Thanks dude
Great vid, keep making amazing content, you’re one of the people that inspires me to continue programming
I am in high school and have been learning coding on my own could you please put a video focusing on aspiring Computer Scientists(like high schoolers) and what should they do and how should they do it 🙏
You make really great, down to earth videos! Super helpful perspective! Keep up the great work!
If u ever have to use one of the implementations of any advanced algorithm u are forced to use a library that implements said algorithm anyway, since it is usually optimized to the max and u programming it on ur own is 99,999999% of the time just a huge waste of time
you are 100% correct; but that won't help you in the interview, sadly.
Ah yes, I love when Kevin Parker from Tame Impala explains about coding
I love your videos. you speak what aspiring developers would love to hear ... so they can get better... more skilled...thank you. this is going to help me a lot.. to get back
I completely agree. I have been in the industry for about 3 years and you are spot on.
I recommend learning how to actually read and understand documentation rather than relying on a specific stack overflow to tell you how to write your niche methods
Any suggestions on how to better yourself in this way?
the document is complex tho
Depends if documentation is actually written well. 90% of documentation is absolute crap.
@@Scottx125Productions some documentation is pretty shitty
@@Scottx125Productions the skill is in learning to read crap documentation 😜
Great video. Felt like everything was relevant to my current position as an about to graduate CSCI major.
always answering the questions im asking myself
Thanks for the help. I'm only 15 but I'll try to apply what I've learned from this video in the upcoming graduate years.
I'm just 18 and I love computer ❤️
Same but I'm 16
@@heyyounotyouyou3761 Same but I'm 2
Man SAME - just got to the part about the xbox avatar (and maybe MW2 10th prestige lobbies) lol brought back many memories of tinkering back when i was younger.
Amazing. Clean, fun to watch and SO educational. Great job! Thanks you so much!!!!
I know this vid is 1 month old as of now, but I want to clarify something: when it comes to "creating something no one else can" (and even more in programmig), it does not depend that much on how much you know, or how many years you've been coding. No. It moslty depends on your creativity. If you have the idea, then making it happening is just studying. That's the easy part, because anyone can do that. Anyone can google how to loop through an array or take a free online course, but no one in the entire world had the idea YOU have, and that's what matters the most.
Great stuff, I'm beginning to learn , it's intimidating. I'll look for videos on how to start.
I'm 26, I've been trying to code since I was 21 this was inspiring. Thank you 😊
how are you doing now ?
@@umarajmal6216 He is still living in his parent's basement. ;-)
different background music! FINALLY!
A failed my coding test the past winter term, and it was not because I did not know how to code but the kind of system we are living in. I passed all my assignments with 95 and I got 92 in my midterm. However, I failed because of the final exam. My mental health was getting worse due to the amount of pressure I was having from my other courses, so I decided I wouldn’t give a fuck, and I failed the test. It is very surprising how everything you have been working on just fell apart because of a stupid final piece of paper. I will continue working on my goal, but this time will be different.
Great video, lots of helpful information. I'm in the process of learning to code and switch careers
Thanks for the time means a lot I will slowly work my way towards perfection alothough I’m not perfect I seem to be grasping this coding concept I’m going to educate myself a little more but great video overall thanks again ps idk if it’s me or you but you seem to be helping out a lot shows a lot of character and well it’s much needed where I’m from …. Anyway (waving hand emoji)
As soon as you start learning to code, I mean the day of, start applying to companies and honing in those interview skills. Cause at the end of the day, you don’t get hired by knowing how to code, but by conducting a great interview.
And you still won't get hired after a great interview unless you have a masters or better PhD from a quality school. ;-)
I understood all of what he is talking about, I think I'm ready to apply for jobs.
thanks for the info ! now we only go up from here :)
great video, first one I caught from you but I appreciate it!
You know what! I really enjoyed watching this video. You told the truth. good job man
This is superb advice for newbies but I disagree with not using git for personal projects. I'm like borderline ocd with using git every time I do anything. I like having stuff and looking back on it years later and seeing my thought process in the commit history. No matter how much I think I improve the years the me of 2 years prior is someone I always find cringe hahaha.
Isn't anybody going to talk about how Forrest mocked AlgoExpert for a second there?
I'm learning a lot from you. Thanks so much for this video
Hey! Feeling super inspired thank you so much! I know little to nothing about computers I feel like but for some reason this keeps coming to me and everything I've read about the type of person who likes this kind of thing is me! Do you feel like it's fun for you? I don't want to dread working and this feels like it would seem very mentally stimulating and kind of fun!
Just described my experience in my internship over the summer. That 3 months benefited my significantly more than school. At least a year of school would be needed to make me feel remotely the same competency way wise compared to the internship
What's sad is up until I was 13 I had no access to technology, then as soon as I got my first phone (it was a flip phone), my brain bursted with interest and ideas towards technology, and now I'm trying to learn about software and programming!
I hear that learning to code "the basics" or "self taught for a year or less" and getting a Job is happening just in USA!
I wanted to mention this, because I'm 36 and have more then 10 years experience in programming, I've done many projects on my own "as freelance", I've my own Portfolio online which I build my self, I even have a computer science degree 4 Years..... But, I Still can't get a Job here where I live, it's almost 3 years now!
You may ask why, well the answer is: "it's allways that something missing", you know PHP, Javascript, css, C#, I would say mid level, but allways at the end, really allways they say:
"well you know all of this, you have ton of project's, CS degree, but we need a senior Laravel Developer, or senior React, Angular etc.
Sorry for the Long comment, but I love this channel and I wanted you to know the story.
I believe you're the only guy I felt was telling the truth. Most of these videos are complete mainstream media format or bluntly lying about how it works in the industry, lots of people pretend it's amazing and hide the boring parts. Project Management IS boring, if you are a coder you don't want to think about administrative, management stuff, you just want to figure out problems and code away.
I'm not part of the industry but I do have tech based routines and knows plenty of ppl who works in the industry, I study at home and developed a project for a couple months. I had to do Project Management a bit, enough to not get confused about what I was making and it's great when you're doing something to yourself, but it sucks when you're making stuff to others. It's still a job and most people think it's playtime. "I play ping pong with my coworkers", "I take my dog to my work, everyone pets the dog", like a fairytale.
Love the content! Got my first software engineering internship going into my junior year of college starting in about two weeks perfect timing for a video like this.
I was just on Clement’s video about the same subject and when I saw you put his face up I thought my brain was mixing things up and I was on the same video for a second
Just discovered this video and just suscribed to your channel. Amazing content and i only have 21 channels that im suscribed to, im very exclusive with my YT algorithm... Keep doing content. Amazing !
Thank you Forest King and Priest. God bless you.
46 year old woman and I am looking to switch careers and get in to coding. I am currently in the process of going through the admittance process because they have a scholarship program. Hopefully i am accepted. Ty for the video.
How's it going?
Thanks a lot. This was very helpful.
I loved tech from age 6 (:
i started programming in C++ since i was 5 years old
@@holzi5276 😍 God bless you
@@محمدنور-ي4د3ب Thank you . 😜 it is a joke Btw 🤣
@@holzi5276 😂 I knew it
@@holzi5276 WE DON'T CARE BRO
"You're only as good as the worst person on your team." Love that you included that truth.
The first thing you need to know is no matter how much programming experience you might have, the person rejecting your resume even without interviewing you is mostly the one who has never written a single line of code in her entire life.
Youre a legend. One of your most actionable and helpful vids! Im finishing up codeacademy full stack course and a lot of the technologies and methods you discussed i never knew about. Thanks a lot 😃
RE: Soft skills -- As an Agile Coach, most of what I do is helping engineers improve their teamwork and communication. Developers frequently tell me, "I don't need soft skills, I'm a developer. This teamwork stuff is lame, " or some variation thereof. If that's what you think, you're in the wrong business.
It was great that I ended up on your video👍
I am 16 am learned javascript and after that i learned react native and now i learning nodejs and express js for backend
Amazing story.
I wish to be like you. :)
Great video but wasn't what I was expecting to watch. As an android developer I have always felt quite confined in that role and would love to venture out. Build a server backend for my own application etc, but don't know where to start to do so. Deployment, best languages etc etc, that's kind of what I thought this video was aiming for.
I would say start with nodejs with express as the framework. very simple to spin up a server and start learning REST API's. then from there, understand databases. You could go Relational using MYSQL, Postgres or my favorite which is NoSQL using MongoDB. much simpler to model databases as it uses object documentation. Then you'll want to integrate authentication. you could use jwt (token-auth) or session storage (passport etc...) both methods are integrated differently and follow the stateless / stateful method of auth on the server to client. That's it really. you could then try different server-side languages applying what you've learned. Perhaps python using the django framework.
@@chill-_-839 that's really helpful, thank you
Amazing video! easy to understand and informative.
the most important when it you become a coder/programmer is security
prioritize security
Wow your content has improved a lot over the years. Keep it up brother 🦾
thanks for the video, very informative.
28 here been in the the network industry for the last 5 years or so but started going back to school for software engineer and I won’t lie I’m a bit nervous about it and my ability to code. I am doing C# right no and I’m not sure if it’s just my teacher or me but I find myself having to look up things a lot for the projects he gives. Not that I cheat or anything I just look for solutions and it seems there are so many ways to accomplish one task. And not to mention I have no idea why I should learn on my free time. All I do know is I’m nervous and not sure if I should make the jump to this.
I am 22 now and I will be starting my life as a coder and I just wish my mom and dad will believe me
It may have something to do with the fact that you sound like a five year old who wants to become an astronaut. ;-)
Hey, we have the same keyboard! You have good taste, sir! :D
Hey thanks a lot for this. My school doesn’t offer any computer programming classes and it is really annoying. You have any suggestions to learn?
Great video! Thank you for the information!!
All great points, wholesome video. Also, I want that NVIDIA cup ...
First great video, I mean it truly!
Furthermore there is so much miss information regarding “GIT” God! Because there are so many companies that who offer their own way of “GIT” solution that there isn’t mention that they just make an skeleton to use the “Git Command Line Version Control”
Please add time spans, it helps for the experienced people. Keep up the good work!