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Software Production Begineers tips?

Asulenovcer
By Asulenovcer
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Try C# or Java. Or is everything too hard for you?

No,it's not hard. I just don't really give time to it. Right ipnow I am focusing on my college studies. I just want to start with a course that is small and should not be very time consuming.
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No,it's not hard. I just don't really give time to it. Right ipnow I am focusing on my college studies. I just want to start with a corporate that is small and should not be very time consuming.

You are basically saying you don't want to invest time into learning how to program but somehow want to learn how to program at the same time.?

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Try this, just complete whichever course you're interested in (free!) and then you'll want to find a project for your friend/neighbour/cat that you can learn from (I wouldn't charge them for this)

https://www.codecademy.com/learn

Thanks for sharing,I was originally learning from there.
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You are basically saying you don't want to invest time into learning how to program but somehow want to learn how to program at the same time.?

No, what I am saying is that the course should not be big enough so that the little time I give to it should not take months.
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No, what I am saying is that the course should not be big enough so that the little time I give to it should not take months.

 

But you're not understanding this: you're not going to learn this stuff overnight. It takes time. It takes a time investment. Codecademy is an entry level learning website. If you can't spare time for that then idk what to tell you

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But you're not understanding this: you're not going to learn this stuff overnight. It takes time. It takes a time investment. Codecademy is an entry level learning website. If you can't spare time for that then idk what to tell you

I have been programming for over 3 years and I'm still a beginner..

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No,it's not hard. I just don't really give time to it. Right ipnow I am focusing on my college studies. I just want to start with a course that is small and should not be very time consuming.

 

No, what I am saying is that the course should not be big enough so that the little time I give to it should not take months.

 

So you neither have the longevity nor the continuity of time to devote to this pursuit? That is how I interpreted those two statements at least.

 

But you're not understanding this: you're not going to learn this stuff overnight. It takes time. It takes a time investment. Codecademy is an entry level learning website. If you can't spare time for that then idk what to tell you

 

I will add to this by saying that Codecademy will only give you the most rudimentary tuition in how to apply the basic syntax. You won't even touch on design/architectural principals there - which are what really matter the most in industry.

 

I have been programming for over 3 years and I'm still a beginner..

 

This is completely correct, in fact one will never stop learning. I for instance have been in this game for around 10 years now and I still have a great deal to learn before I'd consider being pretentious enough to refer to myself as an expert in any given segment.

 

Software is not something that you can expect to simply pick up in a short non contiguous period of time. It takes years and years and then some... It's even worse than that because you can become technically very good and diverse but still be considered to be a crap developer. In other words there are a great many plateaus out there to overcome and the curacy for the climb is time I am afraid.

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Me ranting:

This thing takes years, not days to master. You can become quite good at coding in a year. But coding is the easy bit in software production. Later, you will need to master many types of technologies, know their pros and cons not because you read about it, but because you tried and stumbled upon it, reading helps, but you will never fully understand if you did not experience. You have to be a sort of an architect, know patterns and their drawbacks, paradigms, good practices and so on. Then after a year or two comes learning to adapt to business needs of the client (if you are freelancing for example), imagine talking to a complete noob or even an idiot on what should the product look like and do, if you stumble on a know-it-all type, it's going to be a nightmare. Then you have to create it, or modify an existing one in often cases, which means you may have to learn something from scratch just for that one case, even if you detest that tech or language or anything. Then, working in a team of varying experience (if you work in the enterprise), you will get pushed around a lot, your code will be highly frowned upon and you will have to redo things a few times till you get the grip on proper enterprise code, also you will get to read millions and millions lines of code, often this is your only documentation. Small teams in startups tend to be a bit smaller and nicer to work in, but that comes at a price of less social benefits and lack of stability.

 

TL;DR: If you're serious about software development, you need a lot more time than that to learn what you need, this is not a get a well paid job quick scheme like some people believe. You need to work your ass off for a few years. If you're doing this as a hobby, then you will be just fine with the time you can spend, but you will need to be VERY patient if writing great working software is what you want, Python is a great tool for a lot of things, good choice in that case, you won't need to learn another language.

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