We need to talk about "First Free Gig". 1. Make sure you get credited for the job you do, e.g. "dev by John Smith" footer. 2. Client must be committed: ask them to pay domain name and hosting before even starting to develop. Otherwise, they may not even use the site you built for them
my java full stack training just finished today after 9weeks, and was offered to transfer to a Ruby full-stack batch for 4~ more weeks of training. I said yes and though i was hesitant cause i always here "Ruby is dead" im glad i saw this! it makes me feel so much more confident in my choice! perfect timing with this video!
That ruby guy definitely has a point. There are people here in South Africa still talking about COBOL and flash yet all I hear about in the job market is javascript, react, python etc. Certain legacy code bases can still use programmers with that kind of knowledge. Stay cool uncle Stef 🖖🖖🖖
If there is one language that is pretty much useless today and a dying language it would have to be Cobol. This is totally different than most other languages and has a very weird syntax so even though programming skills are transferable among languages Cobol is its own peculiar thing. Not sure why the mainframes haven't replaced it with Python or C#? Python would run laps around Cobol given how many libraries it has not to mention way easier to learn. I would even argue that even Assembly is easier to learn than cobol and far more useful, we see it in many drivers, kernel programming, and embedded systems. You are way better off learning Ruby lol. Keep up the great work Stef! Great tips
It might be useless to you, but banks still use COBOL and a lot of COBOL programmers have retired. If you are an experienced COBOL developer you are swimming in money and job opportunities.
@@mplovecraftit's just that these companies need to find a strategy to rewrite their codebase in another modern language instead since there are lots of languages that are way better than COBOL
that sounds very promising and makes a lot of sense but I really like React. I've recently picked it up because I keep seeing React on application requirements. I haven't seen any asking for Ruby so that would make me hesitate
We need to talk about "First Free Gig".
1. Make sure you get credited for the job you do, e.g. "dev by John Smith" footer.
2. Client must be committed: ask them to pay domain name and hosting before even starting to develop.
Otherwise, they may not even use the site you built for them
the 2nd tip is extremely important.
my java full stack training just finished today after 9weeks, and was offered to transfer to a Ruby full-stack batch for 4~ more weeks of training. I said yes and though i was hesitant cause i always here "Ruby is dead" im glad i saw this! it makes me feel so much more confident in my choice! perfect timing with this video!
From Java to Ruby? No way
@@dimanroman4803 yeah! I didn’t know much about ruby but it seems pretty easy to pickup considering it’s compared to python and js
That ruby guy definitely has a point. There are people here in South Africa still talking about COBOL and flash yet all I hear about in the job market is javascript, react, python etc. Certain legacy code bases can still use programmers with that kind of knowledge. Stay cool uncle Stef 🖖🖖🖖
I’ve never thought of this strategy but it makes a lot of sense. Might have to give it a shot this summer if I can’t find a job in the web stack
>Stef says consider Ruby
Ultimate plot twist alert
My first job happened after
1. 20 years of hobby experience
2. Right place, right time
If there is one language that is pretty much useless today and a dying language it would have to be Cobol. This is totally different than most other languages and has a very weird syntax so even though programming skills are transferable among languages Cobol is its own peculiar thing. Not sure why the mainframes haven't replaced it with Python or C#? Python would run laps around Cobol given how many libraries it has not to mention way easier to learn. I would even argue that even Assembly is easier to learn than cobol and far more useful, we see it in many drivers, kernel programming, and embedded systems. You are way better off learning Ruby lol. Keep up the great work Stef! Great tips
It might be useless to you, but banks still use COBOL and a lot of COBOL programmers have retired. If you are an experienced COBOL developer you are swimming in money and job opportunities.
@@mplovecraftit's just that these companies need to find a strategy to rewrite their codebase in another modern language instead since there are lots of languages that are way better than COBOL
that sounds very promising and makes a lot of sense but I really like React. I've recently picked it up because I keep seeing React on application requirements. I haven't seen any asking for Ruby so that would make me hesitate
You picked a good way to start: check your job listings.
Same strategy applies to Fortran and Cobol.
here's a summary of this video:
Maybe learn Ruby, it could land you your first dev job.
Thank you Stefan.
Welcome 🙏
What about cobol and Mainframe development?
why do people joke with ruby? and why did it become unpopular among devs?
What of laravel is it hot or like ruby on rails
what about ios and macos? similarly?
Thank you🙏
Uncle Stef, committing blasphemy on this vid😂🖖🏽🖖🏽
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