Andy Sterkowitz makes me worried that I’m not good enough at coding

Certainly did.

@@hagenrobles3582 how come?

Absolutely. I underestimated by title but found it overestimated. Just keep crushing

Andy you are absolutely awesome and I appreciate the videos you produce. I've subscribed to your channel a few months ago so I can stay up to date on your productions. They have really helped me to push forward and not back out on my direction of becoming a programmer at the age of 41. After 4 years of uncontrollable seizures and a brain surgery your vids have given me some hope for the future! Thanks man!!

But where can i get real life project's can you recommend some

@@rdxx4073 use you mind to think 🤔

So true. I learned so much just by building projects. I get so frustrated when I cant fix a bug but eventually figure it out. The process is great

Invent one yourself. Be creative; there are 3 milion apps in Google Play, so one more won't hurt.

Lol. I could have made this video so much shorter. 🤣

Lmao

This is what i did :D

@@ojko12345 me too call centres are the worst haha

nice day man ;)

Job job explaining that

Good*

I started my first dev job and it's been 10months. Still cannot used to the job, codebase, inability to accomplish work, no senior member in a team except manager and hence nobody to get answers from, except busy manager. Constantly being told to work faster. Asking questions often end up routing to manager, get them confused/pissed, so fear of asking right questions to manager while very slow in work, at the same time, too many doubts in unfamiliar codebase, delaying work. Everybody working solitary and fixing bug like less than 1 day while it takes longer for me. Stress from work everyday, anxiety, vomitting many times, and feeling I am not fit for dev or even basic human being as everybody else complete the job way faster, and my soft skills is also not improving since it just that the job requires looking PC screen for most hours, no in-person interaction.

@@jamestanaka686 Sounds like you should be looking for a new company then

How's it going?

How’s it going now?

Teach me ur ways

Same with me 😂😂

Are you alive?

I started a job with one senior dev I work directly under and I've been baffled by how accepting he is of how much time I take doing things, how I fuck up, and just generally don't add much value A junior developer with not much experience is an investment to a company, not a direct cash machine and I feel like he understands this really well

Totally. I was so happy to find a team that was supportive and encouraging. I really didn't know what to expect so it was a relief to land in a supportive environment myself.

Use a better IDE to help with your spelling.

@Ryan Dulac Not alone. lol.

@@dickie1874 I use Visual Studio, it's pretty alright. I will check if there isn't an extra plugin I can use for that

@Ryan Dulac I think you are right. Intellisense helps, but as you said it doesn't prevent me from making typos. I hadn't considered what you bring up about spellheckers, they wouldn't work so well with code. My problem is tha It type a variable/function a bit wrongly than Idid earlier in my code. Sometimes in not so easily detectable way. Like there would be an uppercase letter where there is lowercase. Sometimes your mind glosses over all of that when you have been sitting there for a while. That is why I think breaks help a lot, you come back and you don't take certain things for granted - its almost like you become re-acquainted.

@Ryan Dulac My experience too. :)

@ImRaizex Maybe a small CRUD app using your stack of choice. Start there

Why did they fire you in internship? I mean nobody expects much from an intern?!

@@matinsasan They told me that I have completed my 6 months internship in just 15 days and I'm ready to take on a complete project right away. But I refused and said it's not possible, I asked them for some time of 2-3 days so that I can at least understand the starter template they were telling me to use. They said that it would be a waste of time and client is already expecting results, a few days later a new guy came to office looking for a job and the next day they fired me.

@@braindeveloperdimensional5579 Just to reassure you something at my 43. That shit had nothing to do with you, maybe they just hired the cousin's manager, since they don't expect anything from an intern, they just solved it with a relative to make a favor. Nepotism and favouritism it's a huge deal globally. So unprofessional from company, I'd say they made you a favor.

@@braindeveloperdimensional5579 so they thought of you just as some extra free resources instead of person that need to be trained 🤦

@@S4NTIS0 Agree 100%

Well said Bianca!

Glad to help!

Glad to hear Katy :-)

I am a fresher can you please recommend where can i get real life project's in mean stack

@@rdxx4073 The most important thing of all is just repeating the process: idea, design, implementation, testing, evaluation. I suggest doing small an highly achievable projects so that you can iterate over this process without getting bogged down and burning out. The point is to get used to not having training wheels and having a bit of experience with a decent range of technologies. University/college can't really give you this - you have to do it yourself. Try participating in open source projects, there are many interesting projects out there. Some project even tag some bugs as being "beginner friendly" ( github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners ). Make sure to pay attention to how other people communicate and do things - there's more to it than just writing code. Or, just come up with an idea for an app on your own. How could your hobby, home or someone else's problem be solved? Is there something in development that could be made easier or automated? Then implement it and try to get it finished enough that you can publish the code up on GitHub/GitLab (functional, properly formatted, basic documentation, tests included). Even if it is a bit of a "toy" that's OK - just say "this was a hobby project".

@@harambeexpress Thanks, I was really confused on where to find projects to practice on.

I hope i will get job soon :(

I'm reading your mind!

@@edvinas6069 You will! I almost gave up on my dream after being rejected and humiliated in brain teaser interviews, but you know what... Keep going! People always feel like giving up when they are nearly there. You will get it but you must work for it! I believe in you :)

@@AndySterkowitz Omniscient Andy! You gave some great advice too

@@ayoopdog Thanks for inspiring me!!! 👌

Excellent

You mean like, if a person can build a fairly complex project succesfully with heavy reliance on tutorials and books... that person will struggle a lot working for a company?

I feel like this is close to it but not it exactly, a large part of programming as far as I have been is using tutorials and books to maximum advantage. The trick is to work on something that's not from a tutorial or book one where you have to actively search for and research how to solve the problem and the answer isn't in one place or even in multiple places just parts of the answer are and you have to stitch them together and make some extra on your own.

Why were you fired in 5 days

@@ronitroy3174 I think they lost money? It was a startup

@@aliciaweenum1248 oh

@@aliciaweenum1248 I too recently got my first job. I'm overwhelmed by all the processes here.. hope so I'll be able to learn things.

@@ronitroy3174 it took me 6 months to get a hang of things. Ask other people how long they expect the training to be

And .... I was fired....

@@Canleaf08... 2 months ago, loving your new job.. and now 2 weeks ago, you have been fired..? :(, why were you fired though?

@@Canleaf08 Honestly I'm not surprised you were fired. You're Canadian right? Is English your native language or is it French? Your English is TERRIBLE, no offense. It brings up a lot of red flags to me just seeing your comment. Especially for a someone who is supposed to write documentation.

At least learn bash , an then some python (there are specialized books on python for sysadmins). I suppose you know what are the good books on bash. Here they are in order of difficulty : The Linux command line 2nd Edition 2019 Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible, 3rd Edition 2015 Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash 2011

True and not true. You can be better prepared to handle complexity of enterprise apps by building projects on your own. You should have mentorship/teammates who can you help you assimilate at your first job as well.

I think you need to fork (big) open source projects and try to understand the code and add features if you want to improve in that regard. When you make your own projects you basically know and understand all the code which isn't going to be the case in real world projects.

I will probably start in a month my first dev job in a start up with some technologies I never done or have little experience, I feel comfortable yet anxious, not anxious because I think I will fail, anxious that I might not be par to what they expect me, but hey. I am really comfortable with my learning capabilities. I spent countless hours in front of my screen sacrificing my social life and fitness because I wanted to get into this field so bad. And this is what matters. Keep moving forward, you deserve a position in this field. 👍

@@kareklopodaros hey I am in a similar position having to learn a new stack for a job. How is it going?

@@aaronclare2682 It's going great, I am learning how to work as a team, stop meddling with a lot of things at the same time and stop refactoring code. I got hired as a junior last month.

Good luck Kenny!

How's it going? Update?

Keep working, coding is a marathon and not a race, make slow progress not fast, go into things deeply, be motivated, and dont be too critical we are all strugling

@@umar_shahzad what he said. It takes time.

@AA2 BE2 "The culture of desk jobs is vastly different than minimum wage jobs." - Really? You're saying the work culture at places such as flipping burgers at McDonald's is different than at software development companies? Who would have thought? Why should someone "be ready" for "culture of desk jobs is vastly different than minimum wage jobs"? You don't make any sense. Boring stupid work? With that kind of work ethic I'd say stick to flipping burgers, leave IT for other people.

How did you get fired if your portfolio was impressive?

Hey, I got a new job, frontend junior dev. But I'm worried about quitting my current comfortable customer support job. Like what if I mess up in this new role and get fired

@@felicitya.9077 if you don’t take the step, you’ll always regret. You can always get back to customer support but challenging yourself is what matters in life at-least for me. I’m still struggling in my job I don’t think I’ll stay here for long but I still think it’s worth my experience I’ll have more to learn after this if I get fired. I can only suggest you to take a step according to your financial situation, don’t risk it all if you can afford it go for it.

@@Allinonetvz if I lose this new job, I can still afford my basic needs for some time. I just don't want to be jobless and regret leaving my comfortable job. A dev role is all I've been preparing for all this time. This new job seems overwhelming tho I have people I work with who are ready to assist

@@Allinonetvz Thanks for replying, sorry I should have said this first

@@felicitya.9077 then that’s great all you need is support, I’d say go for it. Also what was the job interview like if it’s a coding interview and you passed it companies won’t kick you easily, if it’s just a verbal test of programming concepts or an multiple choice questions test then you could be let off the hook in 3 to 4 months based on performance. You can also reach out to team members all the time for additional help, they’ll always guide and help you without asking any questions. Juniors are expected to be slow at learning so most of the companies will be fair. Mine however is an internship and by firing I meant I might not be getting an offer

Well to be honest, I don’t see interns are different from regular employees and all of them would know you are on learning curve so you would get more instructions while they assign new task

Can i ask from where you are doing the internship as i am also learning full stack development but finding hard to get internship

@@rdxx4073 you are from?

@@lohithkumar8257 west bengal

@@rdxx4073 ok, To find the internship is easy. How you perform in interview is matters. keep applying in intershala.com, soon you will get internship in reputed startup.

Jissmon Jose 😆

I think you should just do what you enjoy doing. If English gets in your way of programming, that also means you're learning English as you're learning programming. So your English skills should improve naturally. Reminds me how a long time ago I already understood English pretty well, but reading long texts (coding stuff like documentation and tutorials) just felt tiring. But I kept doing what I needed to do for coding and the difficulty went away over time.

What are the basics

Continue learning and apply for more jobs. Get good, get great, get better.

@@MaugzSR :(

@@superjokerrr Why are you sad????? Don't be, I was trying to encourage you!!! v.v

4 months late :(

how is it going superjoker?

Have you looked at any of the job ads?

😂😂😂😂😂

Lol