Hi everyone, speaker here 👋😃 Thanks a lot for watching, and feel free to ask me any questions here in the comments. Here are the slides, and as I mentioned in the talk, feel free to contribute with any improvement or additional tips and helpful advice: github.com/robaxelsen/obstacles-talk
Thanks for the great talks and for organizing the meetup! I just added your slides to the description. If you know of any other good talks that we should post, send them to me. beau@freecodecamp.org.
I’ve learned so much over the years, I’ve gone through most of freecodecamp, done all courses on codecademy even did the web dev course on teamtreehouse. I just can’t get to the point where I am job ready. I have zero confidence in my skills outside of following along with courses and given assignments. I can’t make anything from scratch. It’s my dream to become a programmer but I’ve tried for years now and I just can’t get past this huge roadblock, I don’t know what to do now.
Have you created any of the freeCodeCamp projects? That will give you a chance to create something 'from scratch'. Plus, there are a ton of great people on the fCC forum that can help you out if you get stuck. Also, one thing to think about is that for most entry level jobs you will not create things from scratch. You will be working on things already created alongside people that may be able to help you when you get stuck. If you've done all those other courses, you may be more ready than you think for your first job. Just try to finish some of the fCC projects to put on your resume.
freeCodeCamp Thanks for responding! Yes, I have made the weather app, random quote generator and the wikipedia search app! I made them responsive for mobile and learned so many tricks and so much about design, etc. I guess I didn’t consider those to be ‘my own’ or ‘from scratch’ because I used tutorials and had a ton of help. But when I try to create my own personal site for example, I fail so miserably. I’m still struggling with learning git and how to utilize github and/or publish my own site. It’s like I thought I knew so much but then realized I don’t know half of what I need to. I didn’t think that my current skill level could get me hired anywhere since there’s so many things I’m completely ignorant of.
I think Kevin above is right. You may be suffering from the impostor syndrome. You probably know way more than you think. In fact, you probably know more than a lot of people both in and out this industry. I work in marketing and I do suffer from the same thing. However, when I get rational, I realize that I'm prepared to do my job and that I know way more than many who compete with me. I have a month now learning to code and I don't really know if I'm going fast or slow, I'm just doing it. Putting the work. Take into consideration that you have invested countless hours to learning, sweat and blood, something that most people isn't willing to do. This means that you are ready to outwork others. Even if others are brigther that you, more skilled, you can beat them by outworking them. Do the math.
Thanks guys. Maybe you’re right about the imposter syndrome, I’ve read about that. I have no professional office work experience - only retail, factory, grubhub delivery. And no degree. That’s the other thing that deters me... but I guess if I show my knowledge and desire to learn, employers may look past that? I hope anyways!
Thank you, for keep it my spirit to not stop to learn...
Thank you for sharing and the encouragement!
Thanks... nice one
Hi everyone, speaker here 👋😃
Thanks a lot for watching, and feel free to ask me any questions here in the comments.
Here are the slides, and as I mentioned in the talk, feel free to contribute with any improvement or additional tips and helpful advice:
github.com/robaxelsen/obstacles-talk
Thanks for the great talks and for organizing the meetup! I just added your slides to the description. If you know of any other good talks that we should post, send them to me. beau@freecodecamp.org.
I’ve learned so much over the years, I’ve gone through most of freecodecamp, done all courses on codecademy even did the web dev course on teamtreehouse.
I just can’t get to the point where I am job ready. I have zero confidence in my skills outside of following along with courses and given assignments. I can’t make anything from scratch. It’s my dream to become a programmer but I’ve tried for years now and I just can’t get past this huge roadblock, I don’t know what to do now.
Have you created any of the freeCodeCamp projects? That will give you a chance to create something 'from scratch'. Plus, there are a ton of great people on the fCC forum that can help you out if you get stuck. Also, one thing to think about is that for most entry level jobs you will not create things from scratch. You will be working on things already created alongside people that may be able to help you when you get stuck. If you've done all those other courses, you may be more ready than you think for your first job. Just try to finish some of the fCC projects to put on your resume.
freeCodeCamp Thanks for responding! Yes, I have made the weather app, random quote generator and the wikipedia search app! I made them responsive for mobile and learned so many tricks and so much about design, etc. I guess I didn’t consider those to be ‘my own’ or ‘from scratch’ because I used tutorials and had a ton of help.
But when I try to create my own personal site for example, I fail so miserably. I’m still struggling with learning git and how to utilize github and/or publish my own site. It’s like I thought I knew so much but then realized I don’t know half of what I need to. I didn’t think that my current skill level could get me hired anywhere since there’s so many things I’m completely ignorant of.
I think Kevin above is right. You may be suffering from the impostor syndrome. You probably know way more than you think. In fact, you probably know more than a lot of people both in and out this industry. I work in marketing and I do suffer from the same thing. However, when I get rational, I realize that I'm prepared to do my job and that I know way more than many who compete with me. I have a month now learning to code and I don't really know if I'm going fast or slow, I'm just doing it. Putting the work. Take into consideration that you have invested countless hours to learning, sweat and blood, something that most people isn't willing to do. This means that you are ready to outwork others. Even if others are brigther that you, more skilled, you can beat them by outworking them. Do the math.
Thanks guys. Maybe you’re right about the imposter syndrome, I’ve read about that.
I have no professional office work experience - only retail, factory, grubhub delivery. And no degree. That’s the other thing that deters me... but I guess if I show my knowledge and desire to learn, employers may look past that? I hope anyways!
Booker DeWitt I have no degree in marketing... But I'm the marketing director at a fast-growing, very serious company.
Please do a meetup in Punjab,India
According to the freeCodeCamp directory, there are already a few groups in Punjab. Search the directory here: study-group-directory.freecodecamp.org/
what they use to
make slides?
reveal.js. Check out the code here: github.com/robaxelsen/obstacles-talk
Reveal.js, via slides.com
Free code camp I would love love more women teachers from you
Nan jayo why?
androidgeeking because I would. And if you know of any good women code teachers on RUclips it would be awesome if you pointed me in their direction.
crash course computer science?
Rohan Kawade yeah that was great I need more
It would be nice. Events have to accept women speakers though.