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Maybe it is a little off-topic, but which school would you suggest to someone with zero background who wants a structured way to learn? I don't want to purely speed-run a degree, but I also don't want to pay $35k for the 2-year OSU post-bacc program which is probably the best program for learning. How do the structure of courses and the quality of materials differ from school to school? I know self-study is essential, but which has the best teaching quality? Are they only for speed-running and finishing these degrees in 1.5 - 2 years complete waste of time and money? I am not from US so WGU is not an option too.

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Cabinet builder 4/25yrs and I have decided to switch careers THATS y I’m here watching this video!!! Thanks Bro

The original author was stating things he sees self taught developers do more than others , not that only self taught developers do this or self taught developers do only this. It is advice for self taught developers. Seems useful as guidance to watch out for things.

Even a year later, this video is great. I loved reading all these awe inspiring ljfe stories and their journey. Good luck everyone!!

I'm very sad and depressive, cuz i've been working as a dev for the past 20y and Java in special I've been working just with java, how ever I got sacked, and I've been unployed for the past 4 months... The problem Is that I Can't damn pass in the damn interview..... I really depressive....

This is really smart. My channel is starting to grow quickly so I might do an upgrade soon. As a fellow CZcamsr when do I get free stuff? 😂 Thanks man

Hey man, love your content. you were one of the first guys I bumped into when looking for advice on what steps I should take. I am now 30 years old, and I am a OTR truck driver. while working 70 to 90 hours a week, recently married and have a baby that's 1 month and a half. I decided to not let resistance take over my life and picked up some books I had bought last year and enrolled with an instructor that has been coding since the 90's. Since November 2023 I have been studying HTML CSS and JS. I already made a simple ecommerce website to display items with HTML CSS and JS and also, I made a contact form that has jQuery and PHP validation on the backend. I have 5 certificates and I have my GitHub set up and LinkedIn. I am also working on my 2nd free project for a barbershop creating it while using the React library. Just stop wasting your time, get healthy and start grinding, don't let resistance take over

Hey I just bought an iPad Air M1, I have a good enough laptop (windows) which I use for all my software dev needs but I got the iPad for class so that I can make notes and code as well all in one device instead of carrying too much stuff. How can I make use of my iPad in classes like oop and dsa

As a programmer, how do you handle the "missing" brackets? Did you just stick to the "opt+5" or have you programmed the keys differently?

As a programmer, how do you handle the missing brackets? Did you just stick to the "opt+ 5" or have you programmed the keys differently?

Bro how the hell did you make glow that like button when you said hit that like button

Hello there. I'm an economist, with a master in Data science. Then, I became a self taught web developer. I've been working on this for around 5 years. I'm trying to migrate to Canada. I'm in a situation in which I'm usure that I can fill the gap of no having formal studies in software development with a Master program or pursuit a different program such as the Master in Quantum Computer of U of Calgary. Any advice?

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Just to add my 10 cents worth: I've been coding for a long time & recently picked up an 10 month old Dell Latitude 5521 with 11th Gen i7 (8core/16threads) processor, and 16Gb (one DIMM) for a very reasonable price. Since buying it 8 weeks ago, I have upgraded to 32Gb RAM by purchasing a matching DIMM from overseas, and added an additional 3Tb of storage, for a total of 3.5Tb, which is made up of the original WD 512Gb 2230 NVMe (4x4), Samsung 1Tb 2280 NVMe (4x4), and Seagate 2Tb SATAIII (rotational) HDD ... all this and Linux too =)

This video is very helpful and motivating, thank you.

OMG yess i’ve been looking for a script for afs , thank you so much :)

I am planning to buy a MacBook because of compatibility issue. Specially working with different OS.

Regards and best wishes to ALL

I'm in that boat right now. I got out of the military with no marketable skills to speak of (and got screwed by the VA.) My eife and I both work full time + in dead-end jobs to scrape by paycheck to paycheck in our little 2 bedroom apartment in the not so great part of town. My bank account is at 0 a week before payday most months, and my car got repoed because I couldn't make the payments, so we share 1 20 year old car that's falling part between us. I don't need to be a billionare buy super yachts and privaye jets. I just need basic stability and security so I can actually be a person again, instead of a dead broke cog in a pointless machine with no prospects for the future. This is why, yesterday, I decided to become a programmer. I appreciate your story showing that it's possible in my situation and all the info you provide. If I don't, I'm going to stay a broke, stressed and unfulfilled pest control technician for the rest of my life.

Magic mouse is garbage. Magic mouse is to thin and very uncomfortable to edit with. MX Master S3 is a much better mouse. Not buying another magic mouse going with MX Master 3S. The magic mouse looks like a cheap plastic Fisher Price Toy. Apple needs to redesign the magic mouse to be to more comfortable and productive.

I've never had a good experience with recruiters. In my experience they'll say anything to make their sales even if that means 'bending' the truth. By the way, I only know basic css html and JS what advice can you give on turning any little projects I have into SaaS? Just in terms of services I'd need to use and learn in order to get it functional online.

I know this is an older video, but it's definitely what I needed to hear. I recently decided where I want to switch my career to after I've been a network admin and help desk guy for 15 years and have grown so tired of it. Im week 2 into self learning Python and loving it. I'm also going to pick up JS and HTML. Do you see any use in Python as a front end designer?

Before knowing aws and setting up homeserver, I usually recommend my friend to go with window or anything beside MacBook if they have taken any assembly code classes. Because that x86_64 assembly code does not work on intel or m1 mac. But now I change, I fully commit and recommend getting macbook. You can build a lot of things with Mac these days.

When I was a little kid in school, I *learned how to TYPE via a super Marion bro Computer typing game.* *DO THEY HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO LEARN CODING? For ADULTS??*

I believe that most of the CS degrees are outdated. Why do you need to take three to four math classes? It's ridiculous.

I think you should put the not exclusive to self-taught programmers point into a function DRY principle and all that

Also those same people "you're closed to ideas, let's go only Ubuntu and python". Which is again cool, but as you state "the right tool for the right job" is my philosophy as well; I'm not going to force business users to do it my way if there's an easier way to do it. While I agree with most of the points, inexperienced and experienced fall into the same extremes either for positive or negatives things (for experienced could be over testing for example and for middle ignoring data optimization later on the road). As for example the 5. (hyped technology) is contradictory with the perspective at 1. (that self taught is unwilling to learn new things) yet at this 5 it's stated that it's wrong to learn the latest on the field, so which one is it?

I am backend engineer and I use MacBook Air on M1 16\256. This laptop is fully appropriate to my tasks and it's quite enough for me. Thanks

lol. What system to use well that is easy. Anything with a basic gui. No matter how I try to love Mac or use windows, I always end up tempting in to home and code on a rhel dev vm. It just feels like it is my comfort zone so a lot of this really in end comes down to what you like. That said as in video don’t go dropping cash on stuff not needed. Learn over time. Each system will have its own issues to deal with. For me, I generally go either Debian or rhel. I very very rarely peek outside. Mac is cool but meh. Only got one because was curious about the m2 chip. For what it does it is great, but you can have solid programming machines for relatively cheap. Even your grandmas old notebook will do at start of journey.

#1 decision in buying any computer is price. Tech specs really have little to do with the final decision making. Aesthetics are probably the second most important decision.

Goov video!

Took me 7 months averaging 4-5 hours a day, before I took my second interview receiving a mere 25,000 a year. But it was my foot in the door. I used my Free Code Camp projects to showcase, and a few other projects from my Codepen account. Just know this, when you get that first job, you may feel you know nothing at all. And that's alright. Breathe. It's a never ending learning process.

Wow its amazing video and busy work....

I was self taught, but I eventually got formal college training. I think I learned a huge amount of invaluable content in college that helped me excel in a job. Without knowing the fundamentals of comp sci, I don’t see myself being nearly as effective as I am. That said, I work very close to hardware, which isn’t the same as web dev

This video and comments gives me hope 💜

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This is all fun and games but these are movie scenarios these are not reality. We dont all have fortunate/successful, friends/family. And we dont all participate in groups like church, agencies and etc. And all the times i asked my boss if i could help the company to get some web development experience, either though shadowing, or straight up volonteer to work on platforms with IT and all i get told to fuck off, to know my place, that is not my task definition and sometimes your boss is more the soft hypocritical type and will spew corporate jargon at your face for 30 minutes only to explain why it is not poasible for you to even try going up the ranks or get more experience. Essentially once again, know your place slave. You gave amazing solutions if we lived in a perfect world where people where here to help one another not exploit each other. And that makes me very frustrated because its the same story all the time people teel you you cant find a job because your are no teying hard enough. For sure its millions of us who dont deserve to have a fair shot for sure i guess. I have a degree and i have been coding self taught for 2 years now i code typescript i use radixui graphql i have fixed my insecurities on back-end coding i am confortable at api integrations i have build and hosted a website for a restaursnt which i got paid for, i have blogs, demo applications etc. Yet i still cant even get a call. My resume is 1 page i highlight what is important and i go straight into why i would be the perfect fit tfr the company yet i cant even get an interview. Im tired of everyone trying to justify this broken system.

thanks a lot for starting the video saying your statement, CZcamsrs are literally missing this essential step

Online MSc/MTech Software Engineering for Working Professionals by BITS, Pilani, India. Or Online MSc ( Information Technology) for working professional from International Institute of Information Technology ( IIIT), Hyderabad, India.

Is there any university offer master of courses degree with internship during the study , Is that would be helpful? Or no

Awesome video I just came across it. I am going to school for Web & Mobile Development and my laptop is too old (11 years old ASUS) so I am looking to upgrade but on a budget. Noticed that Walmart & Best Buy offer the M1 Macbook Air 8GB RAM for $699. Do you think this would work fine for what I need to do or will 8GB RAM not be enough? Considering the price difference to get more RAM on another model. Thank you.

As a CS Degree holder who's struggling to land any job six that uses my education years after graduation, I'm not sure how applicable lots of this advice is.

That seems wise. Perhaps Adobe has an AI training path which could lead to a different role in the company.

Universities provide proof, proof that you can finish a program, and proof that you know the basics. As many new grads found out, you still need to push forward to get the experience needed to land an entry level job (Not that you are seeking an entry level job). No one can tell you how to live your life, but that's what a degree is, a proof of competency. You still need to go forth and update yourself to the current state of technology. My only disappointment with Universities is how tied they are with capitalism.

Thanks for sharing

Why did you choose thomas over wgu cs program?

My review of SDC and Sophia courses: czcams.com/video/kRs2PlJByBo/video.html

Good to see you James! Sounds like you made the right choice. Kudos to you for knowing when to call it. -- Hope this means we'll see more of you on CZcams. 🙂

Unis stuck in the 1900s