How I Learned to Code After 30 & Became a Senior Developer (No CS Degree)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- Just a few thoughts on my coding journey, nothing too specific.
If there are any questions please share in the comments.
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Phil personally helped me a lot when I was a new junior developer . Anyways, super friendly and knowledgeable guy, a true underdog story. Ask my guy here anything, I am sure he'll answer quick.
thank you sir. anytime
Bro you should start a business *teaching* others how to *code* . You're leveraging the max out of both your skillsets in teaching and coding.
He taught me, I agree 👍😬
thank you for the suggestion. please keep a look out on the next couple of videos
Hey Phil, I am 19 year old Data Science student. Don't know where my career is going right now. Well I haven't learnt coding till now (maybe a lil bit of python).This video gave me hope !!
i am happy it gave you hope.
Hey Phil, you and I have a similar story in the sense of diving into a new industry. I ended up going through a trucking boot camp and sticking with that for a few years. The trucking industry and pay is down in the dumps as well. I'm recently unemployed and gearing into developing a game for VR while I do gigs/side jobs. Stay positive and keep growing your channel! Thank you for the video.
trucking. that sounds interesting. i hope you can find what is best for you as well. VR game sounds like a handful.
Thanks for sharing your story! All the best in your job hunt.
thank you. will keep moving forward
so much inspiring, keeping it real, true and short, love from Nepal, just love you content.
Also would love to see how to approach coding problems, prepare for interviews, a day as a software engineer and your desksetup in coming videos, sorry if this is too much to ask.
Kudos to your new journey.
Philippians: 4:4, 13, tough times create strong men.
thank you for your kind words. I will definitely post these kinds of videos soon. please stay around and you can see.
Beautiful and Hardworking ❤
@@patriotlightning7791 thank you
Well said 👏
thank you for your comment
That's great that you thought you were being young when you were 30. If only more people had that mindset when wondering whether they're too old to change careers, and they're not even 30 yet. Great story on betting yourself, love that you remember everything you've built and are proud of it. Btw, your video quality is super clear, what are you recording on?
thank you for your encouragement. i am actually just recording on my iphone 12 at a cafe
In contrast, i started coding when i was just 16, now that i am 19 with roughly 2.5 years work experience and i see the way engineers are being treated at large companies. I believe everyone should try their best to be on top of their game as their advance in their career, ignoring the loyalty mirage by most of these these companies.
thank you for the comment. I agree. especially as a programmer, you are always learning and getting better. that should always be the goal
I'm 25, soon 26, at a point where I almost decided to get a self-paced accelerated bachelor's in psychology (~1.5 years) followed by a masters and licensing, to start my psychotherapy practice, however I keep coming back to the technical stuff, meaning considering getting into tech (math, programming). I was really good at math as a kid/teen but never pursued it further and I'm still interested in tech as I like heavy intellectual challenges, solving problems, understanding structures, etc. Really at a loss a now...
If I were to get into tech, I'd rather avoid software or web development where knowledge of frameworks, tools, etc is emphasized. I'd like something purer and more fundamental, and I don't mind if it's math heavy, maybe even a plus. Is there something you could recommend?
i would say if math is more your strong suit. Something with machine learning would be a good route. especially with your interest in psychology, something with how computers learn and use statistics would be interesting for you
Your videos are very inspirational, man.
Can you tell the technologies, you work with, please?
thank you for watching. As for technologies, I have mainly been working with Node.js . I used react-native, moleculer.js and mongoDB
@@letphil thank you, Sir.
I wish you get your next role very soon.
Hey Phil, could you explain went about networking in the initial part of your career? Right now, it feels like the extent of networking seems like sending linkedin friend requests (without a note since they removed that feature), hoping they respond, and then finally talking with them, which makes me feel like there should be a better way.
i used do go to a lot of coding meetups and studies. it helped me find a lot of like minded people. I am hoping i can do some online kind of meetup in the future
Hi Phil, I've just started learning coding myself at age 28. Do you have any tips for networking after I put in the time to understand the fundamentals? I can see networking as being the most difficult part at the beginning of this new career.
there is an application called meetup. you could see what events are going on in your area.
Could you expand your pre bootcamp experience? What school did you go to and what degree?
so i went to a community college , DVC and then went to get my pharmacy technician certification. I really had no idea about computers.Before bootcamp i somehow ended up teaching English in Seoul, South Korea. thank you for asking
@@letphil what was your sat and gpa? Did you take calc ab or bc? I ask because so many programmer videos start with someone who was a electrical engineer and then they say learning to program is just hard work...."bootstraps" mantra. You never hear about someone who was a cashier then became a senior developer at a fang.
@@boltup5566 no, honestly my story is just coming from no computer knowledge and am not special. My SAT score was not spectacular and GPA was not great.
What happened with newest video?
@@ruslanustiuhov5510 it got taken down because it had a package to download youtube videos. ill upload something similar but without that
@@ruslanustiuhov5510 i posted a new one following guidelines, please check it out
Do you think that a part of why you got laid off is because you don't have a CS or tech-related degree?
no. just company was downsizing.
You dont look 30!
thank you, are you saying i look 40?
@@letphil😂😂😂😂
Where do you live, US right?
@@neckbro i am living in Seoul. South Korea but born and raised in US
Bullshit. You didn't become a senior developer after attending a 3 month bootcamp.
Bro no shit he didn’t. lol watch the rest of the video. The man worked his ass off after that 3 months course.
youre right i did not after 3 months. it took time and a lot of times failing and learning. thank you for your comment.
@@letphil so how many years of experience do you have before you become a senior dev?
@@HungNguyen-kp8gc great question. it is different for everyone. when at a company and you can thinking about saving cost, improving code and implementing it.
@@letphil I mean in your experience. I'm curious since you didn't mention it in your video.