Guide To Learn Advanced Programming
That is the way the ability to just set up a computer for many hours at a time. Our engineers know that there's something called the zone, where they basically just sit at a computer uninterrupted for long periods of time and that's how they're equipped to put together, complex thoughts came together many pieces of logic and basically put a program together.
And this is a habit that a lot of people don't have like they're, they sit down for 10 minutes at a time, they don't really have a desk, maybe they're like watching TV as they're using their laptop and they're checking their phones, all the time and then the guy gets up and pick a cupcake. Then go walk the dog. And then the guy goes drive out and do an errand go shopping combat. And then the guy to meet up with their friends, and each time they have maybe 1020 minutes at the computer and it's just not enough time to really sit down and focus. So, if you can get into the habit of saying you're just going to block out say four hours in the evening, grab a cup of tea, and then really just sit down and focus on staring at the computer for this amount of time, then I think you'll be able to develop that habit. And that's even better if you can block off like the entire afternoon and just give a whole day to it.
And that is how you'll basically be able to learn, and basic software engineering is just all about learning, over and over again, it's, it's kind of an interesting career because it's not like being a lawyer or doctor where. Over time, your experience just builds and builds and then when you're like a 60-year-old doctor or lawyer. You're just so experienced and you can try to choose amounts of money. Now for our software engineering when you become like a six-year-old guy you're probably outdated. Now, this isn't really necessarily about ageism. It's more about.
Many people just decide to stagnate and they stop learning. If you can continue learning and keep you up with new technology as it changes over the many years, then you're going to be a good general. So this is really about developing the ability to learn, and that ability to learn needs to be done over long periods of time sitting in front of the computer and you know one tip I have is, I usually just get some really good music, and I will make me want to sit down at the computer so I can listen to that music and then just listened to it and not just focus on whatever it is I'm doing, and also say that a lot of normal people don't have the ability to just sit down for many hours at a time and stare at the computer like I'm not even sure if it's really something healthy to be doing. Usually, people, I school who don't have a lot of friends who don't get invited to the pool parties. so then they just sit at home by themselves and they've got nothing better to do except to learn, basically go to their computer coding. So, if you're a kind of a popular person, or you've got a lot of events and cool things going on in your life, then you're probably going to find it to be very difficult to just force yourself to just sit at home and ignore all those other events.
And for me, I'm the type of person who really enjoys being at home and not doing a lot of things like given the choice I might just sit at home for like a whole month and that might go out once a month. You know I just, I don't feel a need to be going out shopping and going to the mall every day, like, it's just not that interesting.
I remember when I was in high school, I wasn't the smartest kid like I was pretty smart, but there were these other kids who are much smarter than me. And they would always be getting like a plus on the exams, and then we all went to college and since it was kind of trendy at the time to apply to computer science, a lot of them did that. And basically by the end of the first year, all of them dropped out, and I was like the only person that from my high school who was actually studying computer science program that first classes taught the reader class because it's intentionally made to be difficult and just figure out a lot of students, and basically give them bad grades so they're forced to drop out. Meanwhile, for me, I just really enjoyed that course I got like an A-plus in it. And I think the reason is that a lot of these people were probably very good that normal studying like they could read a book, they can memorize it, they could do their homework, but they may not have had that culture of sitting in front of a computer for long periods of time. And that was something that at least for me I had, I had been actually putting since elementary school.
And meanwhile, I think a lot of these other kids, they really had no clue what they're getting themselves into, they thought it was gonna be like studying physics or chemistry or biology or something like that. But, computer science is a whole different culture and requires that computer code for. Now when you actually get into the computer science courses, it may surprise you can hear that the professors don't actually teach you, any programming languages at all. So language syntax, like, how to code in Python c++ Java, JavaScript, PHP, or Objective C all of that stuff. They don't really know what nobody teaches you that. So if you were thinking that when you get into college somebody is actually going to sit down and teach it artist languages, that's not the case. No one ever held any engineers hand like that.
Everybody who learned how to code generally had to do it by themselves, and they're all self-taught in that sense. so don't wait to be taught by somebody, and that's just how it is and you just gotta keep self-teaching yourself so if you don't have that self, teaching poacher that initiative, then you need to be able to develop that. Okay. Now hold on let me just clarify that there are some courses that can teach you these languages if you actually need the help, but most four year degree college programs will not be teaching you that these are things that you may learn in high school courses or community college courses, and I think a lot of people may think that. Well, the people were actually gone to a computer science program, and maybe like you didn't, for example, maybe you're thinking that they were actually taught this stuff, no one was taught this stuff, what people are actually taught in these courses is the disciplines of fundamentals which are like algorithms data structures operating systems and compilers work databases.
But probably the only course that you really need to know, are like data structures and algorithms and you know you can keep in mind that each of these courses is just basically one textbook. So if you were to read two to three textbooks, you're basically be covered. And that'll get you going. And, in reality, a lot of computer science, you don't really need to know these crazy data structures and algorithms like they'll tell you how to implement a hash table but in reality, no one really implemented a hash table, they just use it, and, and basically if you were to do the algorithms for 10% time space analysis like how efficient.
These structures are, then you're going to be able to use them fine, and there's not that much holding you back them right. So I think you can get very far even teaching yourself on your own, although that's not to say that a college degree is useless like a college degree is actually incredibly valuable, I think, simply because it's so difficult for students to set up the competition is so tough that having that college degree just elevates you one level up and just makes everything so much easier for you to land your first job, compared to having nothing and trying to prove to people that you may be qualified, even though there are tons of other people who may have some degree was competing for that same job, especially after that I think like you have to ask yourself why you're learning to code, and there could be a variety of goals, maybe you want to build a project for yourself, maybe you're just curious if your goal is to eventually get a job as a software engineer, and some company. And I would say that your goal is going to be to get something on your resume. And the best way to do that is probably just to make some personal projects.
As you're starting out, it's going to be difficult to get anyone to hire you. So think about some cool projects that you can make and set make that you're going to make it and then just tried to create it, and as you're doing it, you can learn a new language, run some fundamentals. And when you finish it you can put that project on your resume, and then you make sure you can be able to explain about whatever impact ahead, you know like if you could have a website or something to show it that'd be pretty nice if you could give your users have even better.
For what time to go into I might recommend web development as one way to quickly get going, like, learn HTML, JavaScript, maybe either PHP or Python that's a backend language, and now quickly get you going. And that's really all you need to be able to start creating web complete web applications and you know these projects you can basically find your resume and get you started. Another option I might recommend is mobile development which is pretty trendy nowadays. And I would say that in the past, iOS development has been seen as trendy, but in recent times Android development has actually been skyrocketing.
Like, if you check the charts Android growth is growing really fast. So, I think that the demand for Android developers should be going up. Anyway, I think that pretty much captures what I'm trying to say, which is that no one's really there to hold your hand through our office. It's not like when you started job, you get a pair of programmer and together your programming with a mentor and people are watching your screen and going through each step together, we've got a few jobs to actually do a lot of pair programming, but most of the jobs that I've seen the just give you access to the code base. And there's usually a lot of crazy technology and languages in there that even experienced engineers may not be familiar with. We just need to start thinking through and teaching themselves how to get through it. I really think since you've got really just feel to pull yourself like a cup of tea or coffee and sit down for a few hours and just really had to learn to come by yourself, because, you know, even in an industry that's even better documentation than what you see online usually like the code might be messy there may be really poor documentation. And people just need to have that Tinker mindset, just go in there and dig in and take a look.
You know that's the culture that's how it is. There's no true correct way to do any of this. I would recommend that as a beginner you can probably even ignore the whole algorithm fundamental track at first you might get into it eventually but like if you were to pick up a book on how to do web development in PHP, or Python or how to do Android or iOS development, and then just go through that book will probably get you set up, and you really just need to be willing to put in the time and effort to do it and I think that many times out of basically just see people and just, just looking at the way they act like how social, maybe if people don't seem like the type of person who would be able to sit down and just really study a computer like I can already tell that they don't really have that point drafted program, like, you need to be able to develop that culture and get into the zone sit down for many hours at a time and I think that's the one skill that a lot of people probably need to own more on if they want to get serious into coding.
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