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@zurew Thanks, man. Appreciate the tips. Are you a developer yourself?

I started out my journey from the Front-End end, but I might as well go full-stack eventually since the paths seem similar and cross over each other all the time. I chose the front-end path for a variety of reasons;

1. The low-end hardware that is required.
2. The high income that is promised.
3. The low mental demand, which turned out to be a bit illusory, but still relatively low compared to other programming careers.
4. The former experience I have in design.
5. The luck factor. I happened to watch an HTML and CSS crash course by accident, and I thought why not go all the way?

To be honest, I don't prefer this kind of job for itself. I prefer more physically demanding jobs, I think they're more healthy, but most of them are frowned upon and don't pay well. But I don't hate it either. The only one obstacle that I'm struggling with right now is problem solving. And I'm not struggling simply because it's hard for me, rather because I don't have a high IQ. I mean, I can understand the problem and the solution when the instructor is explaining it, it's no problem whatsoever. But to replicate the solution on my own, it takes time and effort, which is probably the case for most developers. I still haven't gotten over the learning curve, but I've only gotten into problem solving like 6 months ago. Overall, I've been on this path for a year. In two days the year will be complete.

Edited March 19, 2022 by Gesundheit2

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7 minutes ago, Gesundheit2 said:

Are you a developer yourself?

Not yet, but trying to get there. I am studying Software engineering at my university right now, mostly to get the degree to be able to get jobs easier down the road. I know its not necessarily essential nowadays, but still there are places which requires a certain level of degree,depending on the positions one wants to take.

Right now i am really interested in NLP (Natural Language Processing). Its became a hobby of mine to study it in my free time. Its interesting, a lot of cool stuff can be built with it if one understand it well ( I am far from understanding it deeply ). I have to study it a lot more because there is a lot of information and knowledge that can be collected there just as with almost any field.

There are some good projects that can be bulilt using machine learning and NLP and some other tools. For example imagine, if you could build an AI that can recognise information and organise that information using a spiral dynamics model. It is a very hard problem and that particular AI should be trained a lot to get more and more accurate, and the other problem is that sometimes i feel like the spiral dynamics model is not too tangible (depending on the context), so it would be very hard to make it tangible for the computer.

One good thing with machine learning is that you don't necessarily need to make something super tangible (for example if you make an algorithm you need to put everything in the computer mouth because we know that nothing is trivial to it), however most machine learning models are used this way: This going to be framed very simply, (but of course a lot of nuance here that i don't mention): transform your data in a numerical format organise it feed it to the machine, decide how many neurons you want to use and how many layers, and then here comes one of the hard part: making the output well, making it tangible, so the AI knows exactly what it needs to optimise for.

The very cool stuff is that even if you don't know and can't necessarily see the order, if you have a lot of data(lot of input and output data), then the AI depending on how advanced it is, it will be able to recognize an order between the input and the output, and hopefully the more it is trained the better it gets at it (sometimes it produces worse results, depending  on optimization functions and stuff). So in theory if i were to collect and organise a lot of data, (websites and information using the spiral dynamics model), then if i were to feed that information to a trained AI it would be able to organise those websites and information and put those into and organised structure like a spiral dynamics model with x level of accuracy.

 

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Got the link to the forum, took a quick peek, and saw some of my favorite members there. I'm signing up, but I'm staying here too.

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What Is Not Allowed On This Forum

Recruiting member for chat-groups outside the forum.

-- From the other forum's guidelines. LMAO!

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Just got back from the hospital, it was raining, I got all wet.

Bro asked me to go up to the roof and check the water storage, did that.

Then on the way down I saw my cousin and her little baby daughter, 2 years old or something. I held her in my hands, lift her up the ground then made her stand on my thighs, best feeling in the world. I asked her what her name is, she sweetly mumbled Fatima. How cute and innocent!! Then I carried her up the stairs and delivered her to her grandma's.I will have as many kids as possible.

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One final advice for your coding journey.

The advice would be to make your own projects. 

Start from scratch and learn the needed technology,knowledge, tricks, and piece of code that you need to make your little project happen. Thats the ultimate learning, when you can put your knowledge into real practice, you struggle, you need to research, fail and try and fail and try. Thats how real projects are actually bult. If you will have a job in coding in the future, you will be doing something similar. 

If you are a beginner, you should choose smaller projects like building a tic-tac-toe game. There are a lot of other small project ideas, you pick one and you try to solve it yourself. If you really really struggle you may peek and see part of the solution and then try to finish your project.

By building your own projects:

• you will really understand how coding works in practice,
• you will learn how to translate your idea into code,
• you will learn how to research for solutions or part of the solution,
• you will find a lot of error and that way you will realise what different kind of errors can mean and how to solve them
• your brain will have a lot more connection to coding, you will have a tangible experience, what different kind of coding concepts actually mean.
• You can build your own portfolio, which can be very beneficial when you apply for jobs
• You will learn a lot of skills through struggling (like being able to find effectively a soultion, researching, getting to know your IDE better, handling errors more effectively, learning debugging, and learning about the most common bugs, and learning about where to search for the bugs in your code)  
• You can reuse your own code (you will know exactly all the parts of your previous projects and you will be able to use parts of it for other projects or problems)

 

Good luck!

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12 hours ago, zurew said:

One final advice for your coding journey.

The advice would be to make your own projects.

Start from scratch and learn the needed technology,knowledge, tricks, and piece of code that you need to make your little project happen. Thats the ultimate learning, when you can put your knowledge into real practice, you struggle, you need to research, fail and try and fail and try. Thats how real projects are actually bult. If you will have a job in coding in the future, you will be doing something similar. 

Thank you, I really appreciate that you took the time to write this post. And yeah, I agree with you that I probably need more practice.

But I'm kind of facing a handful of logistic problems that are slowing me down that I try to tell myself are not a big deal. For example, I have other commitments at the moment (mainly medical school and family obligations) so I'm not fully dedicated to programming. I also don't have access to my PC/internet all the time, as there are certain environmental limitations that are imposed on me because of where I live (shortage of electricity and internet). As well, winter was really cold this year and I had to endure it without any heating whatsoever, blankets are all I have, and I can't work from underneath a blanket. Those are the main obstacles that I'm facing right now, and even though I started learning web development one year ago, in real time (practice) I think it equals 3 or less months in better circumstances.

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If you are a beginner, you should choose smaller projects like building a tic-tac-toe game. There are a lot of other small project ideas, you pick one and you try to solve it yourself. If you really really struggle you may peek and see part of the solution and then try to finish your project.

I've already made a number of projects with the help of an instructor, but nothing on my own yet. Here are two of them:

Guess My Number
Pig Game

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By building your own projects:

• you will really understand how coding works in practice,
• you will learn how to translate your idea into code,
• you will learn how to research for solutions or part of the solution,
• you will find a lot of error and that way you will realise what different kind of errors can mean and how to solve them
• your brain will have a lot more connection to coding, you will have a tangible experience, what different kind of coding concepts actually mean.
• You can build your own portfolio, which can be very beneficial when you apply for jobs
• You will learn a lot of skills through struggling (like being able to find effectively a soultion, researching, getting to know your IDE better, handling errors more effectively, learning debugging, and learning about the most common bugs, and learning about where to search for the bugs in your code)  
• You can reuse your own code (you will know exactly all the parts of your previous projects and you will be able to use parts of it for other projects or problems)

 

Good luck!

I am noticing these effects as I'm practicing more. I think all I need is time.

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Nobody's perfect, but some people are better than others.

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I've always been the first to criticize Leo, and still am. But my respect for him is only ever increasing.

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There's no point in being omniscient unless you're omnipotent.

Theory = Garbage.

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I've written a long post about my spiritual journey throughout the last decade, but it was gone because I lost internet connection right when I pressed submit.

Long story short, fuck God.

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There's something sobering about owning one's ego instead of throwing it into the shadow.

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The cons of feminism outweigh the pros. It's a net loss for humanity. I see bitter, resentful, resisting, and worst of all masculine females all across the board. The more a woman is subscribed to that toxic ideology, often the worse she is as a person. It's an ideology made for tyrants and it creates more tyranny and misery for everyone. There's nothing empowering about feminism. Real power comes from within, it doesn't require an ideology. Powerful women exist, and they're not feminist in that sense. They simply know who they are and what they're worth.

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How did the world change from "I fucked her" to "I got laid" directly without going through the "We had sex" phase?