Anyone of you learning coding for computer science??
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Explanation:
Five years ago I was a total code newbie. If you showed me a piece of code, I wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Now I’m a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a venture-backed startup called Career Karma (Ycombinator 2019) helping people get jobs in tech.
I remember, the hardest thing in the very beginning was finding the time to code. We all live busy lives, so making that extra hour to code after work at times seemed impossible.
It took me months of "on and off" again learning and doing tutorials to develop a habit where I can sit for 2 hours straight and focus on building a simple HTML page or solving a JavaScript toy problem.
After a few months of learning the basics of JavaScript, I got a subscription to Udemy and started my journey through tutorial purgatory.
I would pick a JavaScript for beginners course and blindly copy everything that the instructor did. Midway through the course, I would get bored and move on to the next tutorial that seemed more interesting.
After a few months, I realized that I was moving in place. I still couldn’t build any project from scratch, and most importantly I didn’t have the confidence to explore on my own.
One day I decided I would build a chat app no matter what. I struggled tremendously because there was no instructor to guide me or answers to look up. I had to figure it out on my on using google, stack overflow, and GitHub. Interestingly, it was after I built that app that I knew I had what it takes to become an engineer - learning how to learn is the secret to becoming great at coding.
Every single day I’m solving technical issues and bugs I’ve never seen before. Being a software engineer is getting comfortable with not knowing the answer but believing that the answer is out there and you will find it!
Looking at my path, I can say that the biggest mistake you can make when start coding is to do it on your own. Programming is not just a job, it’s a large community of people helping and supporting each other.
There were tons of people around me who helped me to code and I want to pay it forward.
If you’re someone who is starting to learn how to code or exploring bootcamps, don’t hesitate to join a group of people I’m mentoring.
Look forward to seeing all of your coding journeys!