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My First Year of Coding

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Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by aurumpotest »

This is the first I've seen of this project, it looks inspirational. But how did you choose the projects? I've often wanted to do a small project just for the sake of making something nice and pretty, and improving my skills at the same time, but I can never come up with anything. All your ideas are great - but I can't imagine being able to come up with one a day for 6 months!

Also, how did the project work out time-wise? Were you working at the same time? Roughly how long did you spend on each site?

Keep up the good work!

Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by [deleted] »

pjmorris wrote: post #40
stickperson wrote: post #33

I started to learn how to code back in August and got my first job as a developer at the end of February. I went through a bootcamp and didn't see anyone besides my girlfriend for 10 weeks. It's definitely tough not having a mentor, and I struggled a bit for a couple months after classes trying to figure out what I should spend my time learning. I still struggle with it when working on personal projects and often wor…

Bill Gates doesn't have a CS degree. John Carmack doesn't have a CS degree. Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have a CS degree. I bet they all wish they knew more than they do... and work at removing that lack of knowledge for themselves. I am a big fan of education, even of the CS variety, but a degree is one way to get an education, not the only way. And 'change the world' isn't in the textbooks.

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Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by ef47d35620c1 »

stickperson wrote: post #33

I started to learn how to code back in August and got my first job as a developer at the end of February. I went through a bootcamp and didn't see anyone besides my girlfriend for 10 weeks. It's definitely tough not having a mentor, and I struggled a bit for a couple months after classes trying to figure out what I should spend my time learning. I still struggle with it when working on personal projects and often wor…

A degree is just a piece of paper. I have one. It has 'Phi Beta Kappa' printed on it, but most people don't know or care what that means.

When I look at it, I see a cloud full of rain. The rain drops fall on the earth and water a seed that grows into a sapling, then into a large strong tree. After that, the tree is cut down and becomes paper. So when I hold my college degree, I'm holding a cloud, some rain drops and lot's of sunshine. That's all.

Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by MicroBerto »

ericabiz wrote: post #36
stickperson wrote: post #33

I started to learn how to code back in August and got my first job as a developer at the end of February. I went through a bootcamp and didn't see anyone besides my girlfriend for 10 weeks. It's definitely tough not having a mentor, and I struggled a bit for a couple months after classes trying to figure out what I should spend my time learning. I still struggle with it when working on personal projects and often wor…

> deep down I know I'll never be as good/desirable as someone with a CS degree. I stopped working to write this comment--that's how important it is to me that you know this is a belief that will only hold you back. I could cite any one of thousands of articles that talk about dropouts who made it, but I suspect you know about those articles and it hasn't affected your belief. So I'll just say this: If I had graduated…

Just wanted to say that I found this comment to be crazy motivating for me this morning.

Please hit us up when you launch (or contact me personally if you don't want to post it yourself).

Thanks!

Edit: Cool, didn't realize you're in Austin! Gonna ping you

Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by motoford »

motoford wrote: post #52
mb_72 wrote: post #51

"I’m still dealing with a bit of impostor syndrome and it still sounds weird when I tell people I’m a software engineer..." That's because you aren't a software engineer, and if you are saying so then the feelings of being an impostor are entirely warranted. 'Coding' is one thing, 'engineering' is something different altogether. I'm afraid this falls into the 'you don't know what you don't know category'.

+1 and then there is also that bit about no such thing as a "software engineer" …

I love the down votes on this. Must have hurt some feelings.

Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by steveklabnik »

m_mueller wrote: post #67
sergiotapia wrote: post #14

My younger brother went from not knowing what a or tag was to hand-making this in 2 months: http://www.midepo.com/products/6150-venta-bolivia-non-enim-t... Responsive, built using Ruby on Rails, bootstrap, jquery, etc. Any questions he had he could ask me and I would nudge him along, but it was 90% his determination that got him to where he's at now. Having a mentor helps. I hope at least someone is inspired by jenni…

@curbenthusiasm: you seem to have been hell banned - I can't figure out why. edit: Really? Could the downvoter explain to me what's wrong with this comment? Are we supposed to just leave banned accounts to rot now?

Telling people they're hellbanned destroys the purpose of hellbanning.

Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by altero »

Nothing against Jennifer, her stuff is impressive.

But I find this ridiculous. This is called learning and is done by thousandth/millions others. Everyone has to overcome their fear of being judged and stuff. Giving kudos just because of gender just undermines girls to take on harder challenges in future.

I started coding professionally when I was 17 not to starve, while overcoming depression and mental illness. My cousin started coding recently, he was born without hands! Nobody gives a shit because we are men.

Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by m_mueller »

steveklabnik wrote: post #86
m_mueller wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@curbenthusiasm: you seem to have been hell banned - I can't figure out why. edit: Really? Could the downvoter explain to me what's wrong with this comment? Are we supposed to just leave banned accounts to rot now?

Telling people they're hellbanned destroys the purpose of hellbanning.

Basically it's a system of checks and balances. Hellbanning makes trolling less efficient while showdead makes it possible to correct mistakes. In the case here noone could point out to me why he was banned, so I have to assume a mistake. According to your logic, HN could as well just disable showdead.

Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by thumbtackthief »

altero wrote: post #87

Nothing against Jennifer, her stuff is impressive. But I find this ridiculous. This is called learning and is done by thousandth/millions others. Everyone has to overcome their fear of being judged and stuff. Giving kudos just because of gender just undermines girls to take on harder challenges in future. I started coding professionally when I was 17 not to starve, while overcoming depression and mental illness. My c…

Who in the world cares that she is a woman? I have a wiener, and I certainly have not done anything so ambitious. You're the one making this about gender--everyone else just sees someone who set a challenging goal and accomplished it.

Re: My First Year of Coding

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Post by omegant »

altero wrote: post #87

Nothing against Jennifer, her stuff is impressive. But I find this ridiculous. This is called learning and is done by thousandth/millions others. Everyone has to overcome their fear of being judged and stuff. Giving kudos just because of gender just undermines girls to take on harder challenges in future. I started coding professionally when I was 17 not to starve, while overcoming depression and mental illness. My c…

For me is not interesting because is a woman, it´s interesting because she made public the process and what she did. That´s very useful to me because I want to learn, and also I want to be able to point somebody that asks me to an amazing example. Please tell your learning process if you think you may help someone due to your special situation.
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