I think your advice is as important as your course itself. It helped me a lot in my thinking. I trusted you, I followed your course, I followed what you said. It's not a question of technique, it's a question of mindset. Today, my ability to understand programming opens so many doors for me ! I take it as a tool, which I can use to help me create what I want, nothing more. So, thank you.
Spain, this is so universal, I'm in Phoenix, AZ. All day to day, all I thought of how insecure I'm. Why don't I do freelancing, because I am very insecure about starting a freelancing position., or just plain scared. I would love to start. I 'am reviewing my skills of HTML and CSS as we speak. So, LeL, I know how you feel, but how does a person over come these feelings?
Great advice, Stef. Fortunately, I've never had the tutorial hell stage. I learned the fundamentals, then jumped into creating a webapp in php (for myself) which besides crud, also included web scraping, ajax (even messed with the terrible GD library...). I find that that project helped me evolve a LOT. A lot of times a doubt would arise, and I'd check stackoverflow and apply it to my specific situation. Eventually I scrapped the project. And sure the code is kinda cringe, if I looked at it now (more than 3 years laters). However, it helped me evolve. I find that I've always had the ability to parse problems intro smaller steps (which imo is the most important ability as a programmer). I think that most programmers need to start with a project for themselves, with a bit of ambition. I see a lot of people saying to start with small projects, however I feel that it may need to be a bit more substancial. What's your opinion on that, Stef?
This is very true. My first job was not even software related in a big company. Luckily they have free upskiling programs. I took advantage of this and took every possible course available. I accidentally found my passion as a developer. I automated every single manual task I have and moved to a senior developer role at a bigger company( one of the big 4)
Hey uncle Steph ..I'm a great fan of yours, you don't just give advices to the world but you impact power into people's lives regardless of where they could be living... thanks allot 👍👍👍
My experience has been that there are a ton of phony job adds out there. At the same time, HR people are often not qualified to evaluate applicants. I once asked a hiring manager, '"Do you know anything about web development?". She replied "No, not really.". I've heard stories like this from lots of people.
My biggest struggle are technical tests that require concentration. like I know how inner loops works yet when there's an exercice that ask to give the variables values after each iteration I almost always lost focus at some point. Live coding tests seems more interesting than technical tests
I really appreciate this video. As a Flatiron School Web Engineering graduate (full-time) I would like to mention that MANY "entry-level job listings" are looking for 2 years TO sometimes 5 years of experience.... which is obviously absurd for an "entry-level" position. What gives with this? Make Entry Level ENTRY LEVEL! Fight this stuff... Obviously if you can do it you can DO it.
Easy. Just create your consulting company. Say you worked at it for 5 years being moderately successful. It's all in how you tell your story. Once they believe you, all you will have to do is pass their skill tests, then you're in. The tough part is passing the interview.
Todd, it all makes sense now. When you said "How do you like them Apples? " I thought you meant How do you like them apples not How do you like them Apples? You've got a great right hook. I'm glad I ducked when I did because the punch that you landed on that guy who was carrying the priceless Ming Vase would of floored me too.
I am from generation who learned from tech books 📚 I run a software development business and I have to hire developers quite often. Video tutorials have done a bad thing for these folks
$3,000 / year buying text books....lol...I ended-up buying virtually ALL the "Graphics Gems" series @ $50 each because each had an algorithm-or-two that I desperately needed for a particular job. The last programming book I bought was "Heads-Up PHP" - back in 2005. I'm currently a senior full-stack ( LAMP & MEAN ).
Hi Stef. Do you teach practical coding skills and roadmap that can help students land a job? Scrimba and Codingphase have such programs. They teach specific skills that the current market need.
One time I did training for this company, and instead of giving us mentors they just gave us a 10$ coding tutorial. Funny how that works. By the way, speaking from a point of view of someone who barely even has 10$ in their pocket I would assume the 10$ tutorial is enough, there have been many times where I wanted a 3000$ course or even more than that but I couldn't buy it because of the high price, so eventually I settled for a 10$ course cause that is what I was capable of buying.
I have built so many projects including some really big ones and I have extremely solid fundimentals in coding as a full stack dev, and still struggling to this day to find a job as a software developer and I'm wasting my life as a cashier in a supermarket. It's really upsetting because it's a waste of my time and talent
I've heard this for decades. I don't buy the meritocracy argument. How do you explain the 45 to 60 years old with all the experience in the world, 13 languages under their belts, and a track record for successful being beat to hell in this dysfunctional labor market. It is quite common for older workers with 125k talent and track records taking 60K jobs out of desperation. Merit does not explain the great resignation and the quiet quitting phenomenon that has been sweeping the labor market over the last two decades. Tech workers taking huge pay cuts in their later careers often cut back on their productivity just to stay employed. The meritocracy argument is what I hear managers use while defending a systemic labor market problems that makes moving around very difficult and for older software engineers almost impossible. Lower wages are good. Same talent at half price. What hiring manager can argue with that? The labor market is working perfectly for the bottom feeders or so they think. The quite quitting phenomenon is no accident. Its an epidemic. 30 years of corporate cringe in the making
Check out the language Lua, beautiful language and there is a claim that it is easier to learn and runs quicker than Python. But there aren't no jobs. I googled the language, and it seems people use it for education, research and creating small games.
Nice video like always, but this technique of working on projects after learning fundamentals and then getting a job its maybe real in america, but in europe its not like that. I give you example. A 2 years ago i visited a course and learned web development and after getting fundamentals i watched 2 tutorials. After that i was working on projects around 1.5 YEAR. Ive made many nice frontend projects, but where i live, sadly they dont care about expierience and projects. I was applying for many jobs (mainly frontend), and they saw in my cv that i have advanced exp in frontend dev, projects ...but they said. "Sorry we cant hire you, bc you dont have degree, we dont care about finished projects, you must have IT degree" . And i dont have degree. So yeah, welcome to Europe, where stupid degree paper is valueable than expirience.
bruh most of the jobs in the industry are fake, i need to make a video on this since comments are getting yeeted out whenever i touch this subject. there is a huge difference between senior developers and junior developers, junior developer market is super saturated these days. get ready to work for very garbage wage for first couple of years. Also, programmer sallaries are hugely overvalued because of silicon valley. making 100 000 in san francisco isnt as much money as you would think, ask anyone about living expenses in san francisco and see for yourself, in other areas of the us. wages are much lower. invest in your education but invest smartly, courses are hardly ever worth their money with the amount of free stuff these days that is available, bootcamps are only worth their money if they guarantee a job placement. anything else you are better off learning on your own for free since you are going to spend first few years as junior programmer eating Ramen anyway. Also Fake jobs are a thing. Alot of these companies that are advertising 2+ year experience for a junior position arent really looking for anyone. its a tax deduction scheme. Demand is only high once you are expert. and by that time, you dont need a job, you might aswell start your own company.
I think your advice is as important as your course itself. It helped me a lot in my thinking. I trusted you, I followed your course, I followed what you said. It's not a question of technique, it's a question of mindset. Today, my ability to understand programming opens so many doors for me ! I take it as a tool, which I can use to help me create what I want, nothing more. So, thank you.
Congratulations on following through! That is huge! Glad I could help.
Watching this video makes me realize that I have a lack of confidence when I am looking for jobs. Thank you! Cheers from Spain!!!
Spain, this is so universal, I'm in Phoenix, AZ. All day to day, all I thought of how insecure I'm. Why don't I do freelancing, because I am very insecure about starting a freelancing position., or just plain scared. I would love to start. I 'am reviewing my skills of HTML and CSS as we speak. So, LeL, I know how you feel, but how does a person over come these feelings?
Invaluable advice here. Current newbie dev experience exactly as you describe.
Great advice, Stef. Fortunately, I've never had the tutorial hell stage.
I learned the fundamentals, then jumped into creating a webapp in php (for myself) which besides crud, also included web scraping, ajax (even messed with the terrible GD library...). I find that that project helped me evolve a LOT. A lot of times a doubt would arise, and I'd check stackoverflow and apply it to my specific situation.
Eventually I scrapped the project. And sure the code is kinda cringe, if I looked at it now (more than 3 years laters). However, it helped me evolve. I find that I've always had the ability to parse problems intro smaller steps (which imo is the most important ability as a programmer).
I think that most programmers need to start with a project for themselves, with a bit of ambition. I see a lot of people saying to start with small projects, however I feel that it may need to be a bit more substancial.
What's your opinion on that, Stef?
I think what you described PERFECTLY matches what I teach people to do … congratulations! 👍👍👍
@@StefanMischook Thank you. Like you keep saying, it takes practice to become good at programming, just like in everything else.
This is very true. My first job was not even software related in a big company. Luckily they have free upskiling programs. I took advantage of this and took every possible course available. I accidentally found my passion as a developer. I automated every single manual task I have and moved to a senior developer role at a bigger company( one of the big 4)
Hey uncle Steph ..I'm a great fan of yours, you don't just give advices to the world but you impact power into people's lives regardless of where they could be living... thanks allot 👍👍👍
Great advice, Uncle Stefan. Hope you're doing amazing, sir.
I am!
My experience has been that there are a ton of phony job adds out there. At the same time, HR people are often not qualified to evaluate applicants. I once asked a hiring manager, '"Do you know anything about web development?". She replied "No, not really.". I've heard stories like this from lots of people.
My biggest struggle are technical tests that require concentration. like I know how inner loops works yet when there's an exercice that ask to give the variables values after each iteration I almost always lost focus at some point. Live coding tests seems more interesting than technical tests
I really appreciate this video. As a Flatiron School Web Engineering graduate (full-time) I would like to mention that MANY "entry-level job listings" are looking for 2 years TO sometimes 5 years of experience.... which is obviously absurd for an "entry-level" position. What gives with this? Make Entry Level ENTRY LEVEL!
Fight this stuff... Obviously if you can do it you can DO it.
Easy.
Just create your consulting company.
Say you worked at it for 5 years being moderately successful.
It's all in how you tell your story.
Once they believe you, all you will have to do is pass their skill tests, then you're in.
The tough part is passing the interview.
"its not karaoke its actually playing music " I loved this quote :D
I've been getting into bar fights to improve my coding skills.
lol
Todd, it all makes sense now. When you said "How do you like them Apples? " I thought you meant How do you like them apples not How do you like them Apples? You've got a great right hook. I'm glad I ducked when I did because the punch that you landed on that guy who was carrying the priceless Ming Vase would of floored me too.
These videos are very real and informative
You defenilty knows what you talk about...and thats really good job
I do agree with every word 👍🏻
I am from generation who learned from tech books 📚
I run a software development business and I have to hire developers quite often. Video tutorials have done a bad thing for these folks
Flat out brilliant and important video.
Great advice!! Thank you❤️
Welcome!!
Thank you Stephan!
Awesome , thank you for sharing! 👍
Thanks for watching!
Would you say learning react or vue would help your odds of getting hired tremendously
Depends on the market. Look at your local job market and compare different stacks and framework demand.
Learn vanilla javascript before leaving the frameworks.
Create a portfolio and include a link in your resume.
$3,000 / year buying text books....lol...I ended-up buying virtually ALL the "Graphics Gems" series @ $50 each because each had an algorithm-or-two that I desperately needed for a particular job. The last programming book I bought was "Heads-Up PHP" - back in 2005. I'm currently a senior full-stack ( LAMP & MEAN ).
Are things like the Odin project worth while? Is that a tutorial hell?
Hi Stef. Do you teach practical coding skills and roadmap that can help students land a job? Scrimba and Codingphase have such programs. They teach specific skills that the current market need.
Great advice
One time I did training for this company, and instead of giving us mentors they just gave us a 10$ coding tutorial. Funny how that works. By the way, speaking from a point of view of someone who barely even has 10$ in their pocket I would assume the 10$ tutorial is enough, there have been many times where I wanted a 3000$ course or even more than that but I couldn't buy it because of the high price, so eventually I settled for a 10$ course cause that is what I was capable of buying.
Thanks! 🙏🏼
Why would you not apply for C++ jobs if you’re currently in a Java job? The language isn’t nearly as important as the concepts.
It isn't about the language, as you say, it is about the concepts. But you have to understand the C++ landscape .... if you will.
@@StefanMischook That’s true. Agreed.
First!! SUCKERS!! 😀
Actually you are second not first🤣
lol 'tshirt: F-the world'
Yeah dont do that!
smh 🤦♀️
I have built so many projects including some really big ones and I have extremely solid fundimentals in coding as a full stack dev, and still struggling to this day to find a job as a software developer and I'm wasting my life as a cashier in a supermarket. It's really upsetting because it's a waste of my time and talent
Have you looked at soft skills and your resume and portfolio?
You should create a portfolio and include a link in your resume.
Your videos are great.
I appreciate that!
If the boot camps offering 16 weeks of MERN stack use only WP for their websites, my naïve little brain thinks I should pursue WP skills.
lol
What is WP?
Thank you very much, Sir
Welcome
Skilful wisdom on display in this video
I've heard this for decades. I don't buy the meritocracy argument. How do you explain the 45 to 60 years old with all the experience in the world, 13 languages under their belts, and a track record for successful being beat to hell in this dysfunctional labor market. It is quite common for older workers with 125k talent and track records taking 60K jobs out of desperation. Merit does not explain the great resignation and the quiet quitting phenomenon that has been sweeping the labor market over the last two decades. Tech workers taking huge pay cuts in their later careers often cut back on their productivity just to stay employed. The meritocracy argument is what I hear managers use while defending a systemic labor market problems that makes moving around very difficult and for older software engineers almost impossible. Lower wages are good. Same talent at half price. What hiring manager can argue with that? The labor market is working perfectly for the bottom feeders or so they think. The quite quitting phenomenon is no accident. Its an epidemic. 30 years of corporate cringe in the making
Check out the language Lua, beautiful language and there is a claim that it is easier to learn and runs quicker than Python. But there aren't no jobs. I googled the language, and it seems people use it for education, research and creating small games.
Will you add a discord channel for your course?
Can you please send us a good Developer Resume/CV template
surprising how many wordpress jobs there are actually.
"learing years"? LMFAO!!
Verb. Present participle for to look or gaze at in a lascivious or unpleasant way. 😂
Nice video like always, but this technique of working on projects after learning fundamentals and then getting a job its maybe real in america, but in europe its not like that. I give you example. A 2 years ago i visited a course and learned web development and after getting fundamentals i watched 2 tutorials. After that i was working on projects around 1.5 YEAR. Ive made many nice frontend projects, but where i live, sadly they dont care about expierience and projects. I was applying for many jobs (mainly frontend), and they saw in my cv that i have advanced exp in frontend dev, projects ...but they said. "Sorry we cant hire you, bc you dont have degree, we dont care about finished projects, you must have IT degree" . And i dont have degree. So yeah, welcome to Europe, where stupid degree paper is valueable than expirience.
WOW, so you have been coding nearly 30 years!!!
Well, 28.
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@@setarehsh3749 Hey!! How are you?
hi stef html and css is the hot to teach, all other too unknown ;))
bruh most of the jobs in the industry are fake, i need to make a video on this since comments are getting yeeted out whenever i touch this subject. there is a huge difference between senior developers and junior developers, junior developer market is super saturated these days. get ready to work for very garbage wage for first couple of years. Also, programmer sallaries are hugely overvalued because of silicon valley. making 100 000 in san francisco isnt as much money as you would think, ask anyone about living expenses in san francisco and see for yourself, in other areas of the us. wages are much lower. invest in your education but invest smartly, courses are hardly ever worth their money with the amount of free stuff these days that is available, bootcamps are only worth their money if they guarantee a job placement. anything else you are better off learning on your own for free since you are going to spend first few years as junior programmer eating Ramen anyway. Also Fake jobs are a thing. Alot of these companies that are advertising 2+ year experience for a junior position arent really looking for anyone. its a tax deduction scheme. Demand is only high once you are expert. and by that time, you dont need a job, you might aswell start your own company.
do you have a python course?
Hi! Yes I do: school.studioweb.com/store/course/python_3_foundations__&_certification_package
What kind of projects look good on an application? I've made video game bots but i feel like that's not what hr ppl want to see
The type of projects that the company is building.
Build Business related Applications.
I have books about Software Engineering and subjects related to it, is it helpful to learn web application development?
Learn web application development if you want to build web apps.
@@StefanMischook Thank you, I'll read more about this.
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