Wish I'd found you sooner! I'd already signed up for a costlier program last summer. Now, I'm using your Complete Web Developer to prep me better for that one which is paced. I burnt myself out on the first leg of the other program. But you're right when you say it works your brain. I really surprised myself after being away from learning for so long. Then, when you see the results, there's further amazement. I'm definitely feeling more confident in the days leading up to restarting/finishing that one. I still wish I'd found you sooner!
It's like staring to get into any habits really! Like... running. When your not doing it actively it's freakin hard get back to routine. If you push yourself for a while, it eventually becomes a habit and will be way more exciting and motivation as you go. At least my experience learning python in my second month now. First month was kinda hard, but now it's the first thing I wanna do in the morning. I'll go the marathon route, not the sprint. I do 15 min to a few hours every day.
I mean it depends on WHAT you want to code. This is the problem with everyone trying to scramble to make a living and where 60% of jobs wont support you. It distorts skilled disciplines because people are going into things they hate or are not good at because there are SO FEW things that actually pay any money so you either do these things or you suffer and maybe starve. This is a core problem with corportism, the lowest level jobs should support a relative decent life and IF you can code or engineer then you can buy REALLY nice things. But now you have to bascily be corrupt to get the really nice things and engineers, etc live decent.
I love how many parallels programming has to learning martial arts, coming from a guy here who’s a former amateur boxer, former hs wrestler and a current jiu jitsu combat sambo kickboxing practitioner. I thought I would hate coding but I quickly love the fact how similar it is to the martial artist way of thinking
Always a pleasure to hear your pearls of wisdom. Nothing is easy from the beginning so that hurdle always separates the serious learners from the not so serious learners.
My experience has been that the practical application of code has always been fun. Learning and then applying is fun if you're approaching it the right way. I learn something new everyday. You are bending technology to your will. Specifically, the underlying reason I love this pursuit so much is because I know I can NEVER be a master of it all. There's just too much. I didn't experience this in any other of my 3 previous careers and so I got bored in those. However, if you're doing this for money/lifestyle, as with any other pursuit, it's my opinion that you are poisoning your motives. I would rather eat ramen, write code, and not have to work for any large out-of-touch corporation. Fortunately, I have developed my skills and freelancing that I don't have to eat ramen nor do I work with any clients I don't want to. Build something and enjoy building it. Figure out how to build it as your building it. Once you're done, make it better or build something else. You are a modern day alchemist.
Coding with different languages is like building with different materials. Sometimes you need bricks, sometimes you need logs. Building a brick house vs a log cabin is a big difference, but you are still just using the material to build a house essentially. If you love building it won't matter the material, if you hate building it won't matter either. If you find you favor certain materials you'll gravitate to them over time most likely. I ended up loving C++, it lets me build systems that I find interesting.
My advice to people who aren’t sure if they’d be interested in this is to follow and code along with 1 basic HTML & CSS tutorial the whole way through. I know they’re markup languages, not programming languages, but it will give you an idea of whether or not you would be interested in it. If you don’t like it, you’ve lost nothing. And at very least, you’ve gained an introduction to a skill that is useful to know in every industry. If you do like it, maybe do a basic JavaScript tutorial. If you’re really enjoying that, maybe enroll in one of Uncle Stef’s web development courses and go to town!
Wait till you spend a week writing your best stuff. You are really proud of it. The team lead sits next to you and reviews your code and deletes half of it, and rewrites the other half to be coherent and cater for all these obvious cases that you missed off because you got bogged down in the clever stuff that flattered your ego. By the end of the session you realise the lead could have done what took you a week, in a couple of hours, with better results. The best way to take this kind of feedback is to take it on the chin and try and learn from it. And realise you may never reach the level of the lead guy, most don't, not everyone can be the lead developer, obviously.
@@acmtravels7214 I did not mean that not everyone has the ability. What i meant was that in the job heirarchy we have maybe 1 lead dev for every 5 devs. So obviously not all of those devs can be promoted to lead dev. Of course, they could change company and get that promotion. But doesn't it stand to reason that if there are more developers than lead developer jobs, not everyone can end up a lead developer. It is wise to assess your abilities honestly every 5 years and check yourself, can you continue to progress or are you hitting your head against a wall and a change of direction might benefit you in the long run.
I’m a beginner learning Swift, discrete math and I have a serious case of the “could’ves”. I wish I wasn’t so intimidated by these two topics and could have jumped in head first 34 years ago.
I have quited my job with desire to become frontend developer and swap career. After 6 months of learning and watching tutorials I have realized that I need to build something more comlex than simple stuff. Two weeks ago applied for internship programme and got project as test. Today is deadline, and I have not finished project... :( I met many frustrating tasks because Im beginner, but there were also moments of happines when I solved some of them and I felt happy. For me at this moment it is fun when when I manage to solve tasks with success :)
Here is the thing. Coding is extremely hard and i still haven't learned myself. Now its not like i am not smart, I am and i have just been putting myself down for along time but it is hard to remember what i learned is the problem. I can do complex math problems that learn on my own time but when it is time to do it again it is like my brain just goes blank. The same goes for computer science, I have been trying to learn JavaScript for the longest. Almost 1.5 years now and every three weeks i try to give myself a break which then turns into a 3 month break. If anyone reads this i think if you want to learn to code it just takes discipline and patience. You learned how to do simple math and it took a while to get to algebra and beyond.
Omg, yesterday i was talking with my best friend with that, initial hurdle for beginners. If they don't pass across that barrier they cannot say programming isn't for they.
Algebra was not fun to me but I took it anyway in high school but then after I got into college, I started to "get it" and it was actually a little bit fun. First impressions do not always stand.
I like tech stuff but I don't like coding, I do like to build computers and tech topics, I just don't find programming fun, I do enjoy video editing, setting up systems, installing SO, etc What would be your recommendation for me to go? There's so much stuff that I think I need a in depth explanation of what type of work they do (in the sense of mental excercise) I was thinking about DevOps but I don't know how much they program ? Same with data science, data analyst and machine learning.
Guys, if you don't like coding you have alternatives in tech: like database, networking, operating systems, digital marketing and learning SEO to sell products online.
Hey Stef thanks for sharing inspiring videos like this. Currently I work as a high school teacher. Which one do you think is a better choice, pursuing a master's degree at uni for 2 years or learning how to code by joining your program? Thanks.
Another quality video from the dinosaur of coding. LOL. Buy, seriously IT is a broad field, and that's a good thing. Just choose an avenue and stick to it. Also yes once you learn one language it is so easy to learn another one. I am a beginner and what I learned is when people tell you one fullstack course is all you need, that's the biggest lie. LOL. You can take a fullstack course so you can have an overview of backend and frontend, but to really learn and understand it you need to dive into either frontend or backend then move to the other. But, to try and learn everything at once, that's a good one. Also when people say I got a job at Google after one course that is really rare. LOL.
I like being creative designing is an attraction for me so ux ui and web designing appeals to me but so does game engine development I love 3d. But but I'm finding coding hard to understand please give me some advice to make the process easier because if something becomes too challenging then it's no fun.
Does someone have to depend on their location or the contacts from the carrier they are trying to escape to start a career in web development? I don't want to be tide to my location! There are only two classes where I live. The people that move here with money, and the people that grew up here. The people who grew up will basically only accept you if you chew tobacco and spit.
this is exactly my problem. I am only interested because of the high pay, flexibility, working remotely etc. Then when I try to learn or start typing "I'm like man I'm not into this". Trying to learn coding by myself is agonizing.
Um no. If you don't like coding then you shouldn't do it. Doing something you don't like just for the benefits you think you'll get from it is a recipe for disaster. Getting your first coding job is very difficult and if you don't love what you're doing you'll probably never get those benefits anyway.
Coding is even more boring than staring at paint drying… Apart from true nerds that are born to code, two categories of people are “attracted” to it: Really desperate, often long-term unemployed, low self-esteem losers and, those who don’t know what they don’t know, who after their first “hello world” achievement, enter the all-mighty Dunning-Kruger effect Universe, without ever landing a real tech job.
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Wish I'd found you sooner! I'd already signed up for a costlier program last summer. Now, I'm using your Complete Web Developer to prep me better for that one which is paced.
I burnt myself out on the first leg of the other program. But you're right when you say it works your brain. I really surprised myself after being away from learning for so long. Then, when you see the results, there's further amazement.
I'm definitely feeling more confident in the days leading up to restarting/finishing that one. I still wish I'd found you sooner!
The act of coding is often not “fun” but the reward is completing a solution. THAT feeling is unbeatable.
It's like staring to get into any habits really! Like... running. When your not doing it actively it's freakin hard get back to routine. If you push yourself for a while, it eventually becomes a habit and will be way more exciting and motivation as you go. At least my experience learning python in my second month now. First month was kinda hard, but now it's the first thing I wanna do in the morning. I'll go the marathon route, not the sprint. I do 15 min to a few hours every day.
Consistency is the key to success
havent watched the video yet. but as a self taught, coding is fun asf when you're able to get things working. It's the best feeling
I mean it depends on WHAT you want to code. This is the problem with everyone trying to scramble to make a living and where 60% of jobs wont support you. It distorts skilled disciplines because people are going into things they hate or are not good at because there are SO FEW things that actually pay any money so you either do these things or you suffer and maybe starve.
This is a core problem with corportism, the lowest level jobs should support a relative decent life and IF you can code or engineer then you can buy REALLY nice things. But now you have to bascily be corrupt to get the really nice things and engineers, etc live decent.
I love how many parallels programming has to learning martial arts, coming from a guy here who’s a former amateur boxer, former hs wrestler and a current jiu jitsu combat sambo kickboxing practitioner. I thought I would hate coding but I quickly love the fact how similar it is to the martial artist way of thinking
Always a pleasure to hear your pearls of wisdom. Nothing is easy from the beginning so that hurdle always separates the serious learners from the not so serious learners.
Your mentor course is helping me a lot to climb "the first hurdle" !! CSS3 certification obtained yesterday ! Javascript next.
Congratulations!
CSS 3 certification from whom btw? Genuine question, I'm curious
This was my question exactly. Thank you for putting it so eloquently.
This was 6 minutes of very succinct knowledge on a topic which is rarely touched upon in the field of teaching programming.
My experience has been that the practical application of code has always been fun. Learning and then applying is fun if you're approaching it the right way. I learn something new everyday. You are bending technology to your will. Specifically, the underlying reason I love this pursuit so much is because I know I can NEVER be a master of it all. There's just too much. I didn't experience this in any other of my 3 previous careers and so I got bored in those.
However, if you're doing this for money/lifestyle, as with any other pursuit, it's my opinion that you are poisoning your motives. I would rather eat ramen, write code, and not have to work for any large out-of-touch corporation. Fortunately, I have developed my skills and freelancing that I don't have to eat ramen nor do I work with any clients I don't want to.
Build something and enjoy building it. Figure out how to build it as your building it. Once you're done, make it better or build something else. You are a modern day alchemist.
This question is normally asked if you are not motivated by anything involving work.
Coding with different languages is like building with different materials. Sometimes you need bricks, sometimes you need logs. Building a brick house vs a log cabin is a big difference, but you are still just using the material to build a house essentially. If you love building it won't matter the material, if you hate building it won't matter either. If you find you favor certain materials you'll gravitate to them over time most likely. I ended up loving C++, it lets me build systems that I find interesting.
Appreciate you posting this type of video
My pleasure!
My advice to people who aren’t sure if they’d be interested in this is to follow and code along with 1 basic HTML & CSS tutorial the whole way through. I know they’re markup languages, not programming languages, but it will give you an idea of whether or not you would be interested in it. If you don’t like it, you’ve lost nothing. And at very least, you’ve gained an introduction to a skill that is useful to know in every industry.
If you do like it, maybe do a basic JavaScript tutorial. If you’re really enjoying that, maybe enroll in one of Uncle Stef’s web development courses and go to town!
Solid advice👍🏽
Wait till you spend a week writing your best stuff. You are really proud of it. The team lead sits next to you and reviews your code and deletes half of it, and rewrites the other half to be coherent and cater for all these obvious cases that you missed off because you got bogged down in the clever stuff that flattered your ego. By the end of the session you realise the lead could have done what took you a week, in a couple of hours, with better results. The best way to take this kind of feedback is to take it on the chin and try and learn from it. And realise you may never reach the level of the lead guy, most don't, not everyone can be the lead developer, obviously.
I disagree with the last sentence. If take the review positively one day you can reach any level. Lead, architect or principal engineer.
@@acmtravels7214 I did not mean that not everyone has the ability. What i meant was that in the job heirarchy we have maybe 1 lead dev for every 5 devs. So obviously not all of those devs can be promoted to lead dev. Of course, they could change company and get that promotion. But doesn't it stand to reason that if there are more developers than lead developer jobs, not everyone can end up a lead developer. It is wise to assess your abilities honestly every 5 years and check yourself, can you continue to progress or are you hitting your head against a wall and a change of direction might benefit you in the long run.
Nothing is fun till you are good at it
This is so encouraging. Thank you so so much for posting. Turned on notifications 😅
Welcome!!
Yes, it’s all about finding your niche.
I’m a beginner learning Swift, discrete math and I have a serious case of the “could’ves”. I wish I wasn’t so intimidated by these two topics and could have jumped in head first 34 years ago.
Just keep learning; you are still very young.
I have quited my job with desire to become frontend developer and swap career. After 6 months of learning and watching tutorials I have realized that I need to build something more comlex than simple stuff. Two weeks ago applied for internship programme and got project as test. Today is deadline, and I have not finished project... :( I met many frustrating tasks because Im beginner, but there were also moments of happines when I solved some of them and I felt happy. For me at this moment it is fun when when I manage to solve tasks with success :)
My decision to pursue coding was also a pretty mercenary decision, but I really enjoying it now that I've gotten into it!
you do everything by the book just to have it stop working somehow
I’ve had this question for awhile since I started reading this swift book.
I love coding, coding is amazingly fun because of the challenge
Love your viewpoints Stefan.
Thanks!
This is the video I needed to hear.
Good, relatable stuff, especially the musical instrument comparison. Learn the languages, make the music. Thanks.
Here is the thing. Coding is extremely hard and i still haven't learned myself. Now its not like i am not smart, I am and i have just been putting myself down for along time but it is hard to remember what i learned is the problem. I can do complex math problems that learn on my own time but when it is time to do it again it is like my brain just goes blank. The same goes for computer science, I have been trying to learn JavaScript for the longest. Almost 1.5 years now and every three weeks i try to give myself a break which then turns into a 3 month break. If anyone reads this i think if you want to learn to code it just takes discipline and patience. You learned how to do simple math and it took a while to get to algebra and beyond.
Omg, yesterday i was talking with my best friend with that, initial hurdle for beginners. If they don't pass across that barrier they cannot say programming isn't for they.
Algebra was not fun to me but I took it anyway in high school but then after I got into college, I started to "get it" and it was actually a little bit fun. First impressions do not always stand.
Thanks for the video!
I like tech stuff but I don't like coding, I do like to build computers and tech topics, I just don't find programming fun, I do enjoy video editing, setting up systems, installing SO, etc
What would be your recommendation for me to go? There's so much stuff that I think I need a in depth explanation of what type of work they do (in the sense of mental excercise)
I was thinking about DevOps but I don't know how much they program ? Same with data science, data analyst and machine learning.
Martial arts discipline 💯
I like that there is always problems to solve.
Guys, if you don't like coding you have alternatives in tech: like database, networking, operating systems, digital marketing and learning SEO to sell products online.
Hey Stef thanks for sharing inspiring videos like this. Currently I work as a high school teacher. Which one do you think is a better choice, pursuing a master's degree at uni for 2 years or learning how to code by joining your program? Thanks.
Another quality video from the dinosaur of coding. LOL. Buy, seriously IT is a broad field, and that's a good thing. Just choose an avenue and stick to it. Also yes once you learn one language it is so easy to learn another one. I am a beginner and what I learned is when people tell you one fullstack course is all you need, that's the biggest lie. LOL. You can take a fullstack course so you can have an overview of backend and frontend, but to really learn and understand it you need to dive into either frontend or backend then move to the other. But, to try and learn everything at once, that's a good one. Also when people say I got a job at Google after one course that is really rare. LOL.
T. Rex
Can one earn enough to survive from just part-time freelancing? Or does a coder have to dedicate his/her life passionately to it? Cheers!
Once you establish yourself, yes, part time is doable.
I need a remote job. I have to get in regardless at some point.
I like being creative designing is an attraction for me so ux ui and web designing appeals to me but so does game engine development I love 3d. But but I'm finding coding hard to understand please give me some advice to make the process easier because if something becomes too challenging then it's no fun.
Does someone have to depend on their location or the contacts from the carrier they are trying to escape to start a career in web development? I don't want to be tide to my location! There are only two classes where I live. The people that move here with money, and the people that grew up here. The people who grew up will basically only accept you if you chew tobacco and spit.
so debug is more entertaining?
I just failed my C exam in computer science degree, it was not fun :(
this is exactly my problem. I am only interested because of the high pay, flexibility, working remotely etc. Then when I try to learn or start typing "I'm like man I'm not into this". Trying to learn coding by myself is agonizing.
You have to reframe in your mind as a game, so it becomes interesting. Check out this course: school.studioweb.com/store/course/lizard_wizard
well it looks like we can live with html and css, all other coding will be done with easy third party programming tools mho ;))
I hate it but I can make 100k+.
The fun part now is there are many options.
is UI/UX coding are you seriou?
Of course it is.
@@StefanMischook i didn't understand this i thought ui/ux is under graphic designing category not under programming. correct me
@@greenshaheen you still need code to implement the design
@@spacegoat_3d801 no i don't need code to implement design
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We know that’s why we never see any videos of you doing it. Just click bait on trending coding topics and questions
Hey now, it's fun if you're a masochist. Let's not jump to conclusions.
I think only if you are a wizard harry potter 😏
Stef you look code-burned-out...look man the code you see is controled? by who? who knows hahaha
Um no. If you don't like coding then you shouldn't do it.
Doing something you don't like just for the benefits you think you'll get from it is a recipe for disaster.
Getting your first coding job is very difficult and if you don't love what you're doing you'll probably never get those benefits anyway.
Anyone who is selling 'mentoring' obviously can't get a real job.
Coding is even more boring than staring at paint drying…
Apart from true nerds that are born to code, two categories of people are “attracted” to it:
Really desperate, often long-term unemployed, low self-esteem losers and,
those who don’t know what they don’t know, who after their first “hello world” achievement, enter the all-mighty Dunning-Kruger effect Universe, without ever landing a real tech job.
Damn. Depression can be treated get some help.
no because you will be miserable