I was minimalist long time ago, then i met my wife...

Hey, I wanna thank you for constantly sharing these valuable videos. You might be the most nuanced code tutor/vlogger (whatever you wanna call it) on youtube. You don't know how much I appreciate it. I'm currently a student and I've been coding for a little more than a year now but it's only the last couple of months I've started loving it. What you bring up in this video is something I personally have a lot of experience with. Code courses/tutorials can really be like that - they take you through a lot of stuff, but never really teach you in a way that you as a beginner is giving a fair chance get the whole picture. And what's sad is that in my experience, the best examples of less pedagogic teaching is actually found in school, in high school, college or university, whatever you're attending. It's like the formality of these public establishments make the teachers afraid of working towards new ways to learn (in fear of being accepted) and instead turn to old-fashioned customs. And I really think these customs are the reason why more abstract subjects (like coding to the beginner) can be intimidating. So I'm really keen to encourage those who dare to be different. The programmers I watch primarily on youtube are you and cleverprogrammer and a few others maybe. However, It's certainly not easy to be a good teacher that not only knows the facts, but also knows how to convey the information in a way that the student can comprehend it. But nonetheless, it IS important! My conclusion in short of an analysis I've made is that it happens because we're so used to being taught and informed in certain ways that we tend to forget to think outside the box. The way we're used to learn from school is through customs that actually have more rootedness in the 19th century than what it should have in the 21st century. And it's now when we're in times of more stress than ever and where less ordinary jobs are available (especially to those new in the labor market) that I think it's time for the society to shift focus from old-fashioned styles of teaching to modern, labor market oriented ways of doing it of which some of youtubers really are role models. And yeah, this really applies to any subject but it might be even more important when it comes to coding since this subject comes less natural to most of us. So thank you, Stefan... and whoever actually read this comment..lol

Helpful as always ! I am a month into learning to code decided what I want to do with my life . I started watching tutorials and learning tracks on couple of websites. I can read the basic code and I understand what it does. Now I started to work on a personal project and I found myself googling a lot how to implement the basics in what I want to do. It`s a slow process I get frustrated a lot but I will keep at it ..it`s this or nothing because I can't return to do what I was doing before.

You are SPOT ON, and the (currently 4) people who dislike this video, are those juniors/intermediates. I'll be scouring your channel, God bless you Sir :) Matthew, England.

Great advice Stef on learning code and lifestyle. Solid foundations are vital in any worthwhile life endeavor. Nature doesn't take shortcuts... We must all learn from this basic premise daily in order to succeed in the long run.

Just want to say thanks. I'm starting to learn my first language because I want to move to BI and I find everything too vast and complex, but it's good to know that the feeling is kind of normal. You are very concise and it's clear that you know what are you talking about. You are really killing it haha.

I feel that! Once I found a good course that taught the fundamentals along with practicality, everything clicked.

This is the reason why i love your courses... that's what separates you from other coding teachers. Thanks again stefan!

I've been an extreme minimalist for the past 10 years. When my wife first saw my apartment she said "WOW! When you said minimalist, I didn't expect this. It looks like you've completely moved out." ALL I had on the entire floor was a few folded towels (which was my bed), a blanket, a very small Ikea desk with a laptop on it and a chair. Just 4 items. Now I can't walk 5 feet without stepping on 30 Legos. #Parenthood :) gotta love it.

A word that comes to mind when I think about this is Gestalt which sort of means an organized whole considered greater than the sum of it's parts. I think good Programs are like a Gestalt, but to often many courses just endlessly teach the individual parts and just leaving it up to the student to figure out how to bring it all together into an organized whole which is a very frustrating situation.

Focus on one language, maybe supplement with database or css. Jumping from one tool to another is nothing but time waste.

Very much enjoyed the comment about getting rid of clothes and furniture. My current cloth rule is not buying anything unless something from the closet ends up worn out

Been coding for about four months now and I take these courses like crazy.but I also am a music teacher so I already have a app I built my self in the store about music.

Thanks for these valuable advices , I think the more minimalist you're the more big you can be. not to forget to mention to be minimalist also from carying hate or jealousy or these bad mental thoughts, because they're are really way heavy from anything else

Completely agree with all of this! For c++, sololearn and the like never worked for me. I got almost nowhere until I found MY method of learning code. For me, it was textbook pdfs, pacing myself, and challenging friends. But im sure your project based courses would of helped me too. I'm actually thinking of taking one of your courses now to get freelancing skills for webapps ^^

Great video, problem with a lot if these courses is that thy don't teach you the thought process breaking down a problem writing out the algorithm and pseudocode before programming the solution.

Stefan, I’ve been through countless Udemy courses, from some very good teachers of code, however, NONE of them show you how to “solve” real world problems. After spending 2 years of following tutorials, and a lot of money, I still cannot build anything on my own. Why? Because I don’t know how to “think” it terms of solving a problem. Those skills were never taught. The closest I’ve seen to a really good tutorial is “Automate the boring stuff with Python” on Udemy. VERY well put together course indeed. Saying this, how are your courses any different? I’m really interested in Python, and saw your python course, but reading through the course offerings (titles), it seems that you teach the same things I’ve been through a million times. How is your core teaching any different than all of the rest of the tutorials out there? Thank you for taking the time to answer my question...

Thanks for the very informative video, as always Stef!

I wish I knew this when I started learning how to build software 5 years ago. I spent 2 of those years worrying about not knowing everything about each language. Maybe this sounds a bit stupid but I thought every successful develop had everything memorized. For 2 years I was driven by this goal of trying to be like that fictional person who knew everything. It took me that long to realize that understanding the basics + the concepts of system architecture are the important part in being successful...and not going completely insane trying to accomplish the impossible.

You give very good pieces of advice in this video!

Thanks. Always a pleasure to hear your excellent advice.

Very informative and useful as always, keep up the good work

Dear Stefan Mischook, I have been scouring the web for it seems like an eternity, tutorial after lesson but what do i get out of it ... a bunch of non-sequential data that has no relevancy to real world applications! I have not taken your course yet but it seems you have a great understanding to relay information to a person who needs the practical terminology in order to get up and going in which I desperately need. I am a passionate, " Wolf of Wallstreet," go-getter who spends hours, all day pounding my numb fingers against an old dell keyboard as well as my head against an old Victorian peeling wall (sorry for the mellow-dramatic effect) but its true and so help me God you are probably my last resource other than colt steele and a 300,00 college diploma. So i ask you this, if your course is what it says it is, I will personally write the BEST review you have ever had and will put your name in the bottom credit, " Special Thanks to Stefan Mischook," in my first website and occasionally wear merchanidse to tell all my friends about you and your course. I will be purchasing your course on the 17th of this month and will invest the entire 40 hours plus but I have a great feeling about this and know others will as well. PS Sorry for the long comment/letter its just frustrating when your first starting out and going from supposed teacher to instructors who have no clue how to teach. Thank you! - Tripto Methalin

Like usual I enjoying your thoughts and suggestions..Thank you man.

Knowing how but not knowing why is sad.

Spent around 300 eurines on a nice sound recorder 4 years ago, now most descent smart phones can probably record the same quality, and are a quarter the size!!

My view is finding a language that is close enough to most languages or relative to most then master its fundamentals. That shortens the learning curve dramatically.

Amazing video Stef. The video would be much better if you took your time on making this video to produce a highly edited video. PS it would be hard to catch up on your videos every single video

Thank you buddy. Was really helpfull.

Like many others I've tried to learn code online from many different available sources. Some you pay and some are free. They all seem to teach the same way. You learn how to type "Hello World", learn about strings, variables, if else, loops, booleans and etc etc. As you go through the courses it's been said something will click later on. I don't know, I guess it never clicked for me or I didn't go far enough. I could never really grasp what the hell was going on. You learn those fundemental things like strings, variables, if else and etc etc, but why would I use them?? Like the "Hello World", I would type it in and run it and it's just text. I guess for me I learn differently. I like to learn at a step by step approach, but I want to see results at the same time. Someone should do a video on showing like this is where variables come in and this is the result, this is where strings come in and this is what happens, these are if and else and this is what happens. They do show this, but show it in a real world complex cool result situation. Not some simple text looking thing that really doesn't do anything. Lol! Well hopefully this makes sense to someone.

Yes, at the end of these courses... you're left asking "Now what?" So I know these bits & pieces... but how do I use it to make my own software or app. No real world situations.

Thank you.

I am an economist but i want to make a transition into data science and Machine Learning. I have a good foundation in statistics and econometrics but I don't anything about programming( Python or R). How can I surpass this barrier?

Great info/video and I follow the same thing get rid of what you dont need and give it away. Living a simpler life is so much better.

you sir are a blessing for the whole internet. I failed in college at network and telecommunications engineering this year and i consider reorienting myself into development and your course is my top 1 in my "to buy list". great content as always. are you ever going to drop a java course or C# for entreprises development since these are the main languages in my region ? and what are the certificates you would suggest to get to complete our portfolios?

But what do you name "fundamentals"?

I like your videos. already subscribed! But what does that thing hanging in the frame on the background? -curious I also like the mug killing it (y)

I am currently using Free Code Camp and going to Atlanta tech college

Hi Stefan. I have to say that this is of the best educational channels on youtube. I have a question. I'm learning programming and I've got to the point where I have to chose a backend programming language and a good DB to pair it with. My first major goal would be to create a SCALABLE browser based video platform for online teaching. It would have to support 1 on 1 and 1 on 5 ( I guess) video conversations. What technologies / languages do you recommend me? What would be the best for this job, flash, ajax, php/python/node.js eh? :D BIG THANKS IN ADVANCE.

hi Stephan, would you make a video about fundamental? would be appreciated. thank you.

Would you please inform the viewers in the channel description what languages you work with. thanks

I use these points in my music teaching life.

I think Corey Schafer does a good job with his courses :)

Hi, I had a look at your course it looks very promising. But will this only teach me web development?

what is the fundamental? algorithm and datastructure?

So what are the computer science fundamental textbooks you recommend I buy from Amazon?

Good filosofi, minimalis

I like what this guy is saying. Has anyone taken his courses? If so, how do they compare to other courses such as Team Treehouse?

Trivia. You are kind of a lookalike of Mjr Arkadiusz Kups, a legend in Polish special forces and strictly military oriented (i.e. butchering without bells and whistles) martial arts. Just discovered your channel, not a coder and have nothing better to say ;)

Thanks!I encountered this myself.Just finished the course and didn't knew what to do next(not sure that I know now). You said that some quorses give to much and some give too little(I'm simplyfing as I understood,may be wrong) bot isn't it that there is no course that will cover everything that is needed and we have to find answers by ourself?Also,where can I find your courses?

Hi Stef. Great video once again. What would you say about marketplaces like Themeforest. In your opinion, are they a good place for developers to make money V.S. freelancing.

9:00 wow very wise

I dont quite understand how your courses website work? How many course you offer? How can i access them?

You study wing chun? Just asking because I saw that punching style you used.

I have seen a 10 week front end web developer course that teaches you basics of JavaScript & then takes you straight into ReactJs.. Even if someone learns ReactJs that easily & quickly, do you think that alone makes you a front end web developer?? Thanks

Minimalism is similar to the Buddhist 4 Noble truths

I just gave away my 51 in samsung tv amongst other things, it feels great not having it anymore, I have many other things I want to get rid of too...so much junk in the world! Do not get possessed by your possessions, they end up weighing you down!

Good Stuff...

Great info do you have php and JavaScript courses?

Please Mr Stefan can you make android tutorial on KZfaq, or if you can't, please recommend one for us . With my regards 🌼

I have to disagree with this. You can't be taught the fundamentals of programming because programming is a skill. It's not like electrical engineering where you need a lot of background knowledge to have a good understanding of what is going on. What is most important when you're starting out in programming is to hit the ground running. You need to build projects when you're starting out because it gives you confidence to try something bigger later on, gives you some tangible goal you can achieve and most importantly, it gives you a platform to experiment with. What differentiates a good developer from a cargo programmer is that a developer will ask questions about why the code is as it is and find ways to break the frameworks they're given. You will, with time, understand the core fundamentals and mechanisms behind what makes these projects work. You will find similarities and identify patterns in your work the more projects you work on but for now, you only need to get something working because if you don't, you will give up on programming. When you have something working, you will have something you can show other people and feel proud about calling yourself a developer. But that's hard and a lot of people are just not willing to go that extra mile. All the best on your coding journey.

Off Topic: Over your shoulder I spy PC Comics Elric #1 and #6 I may still have mine in a white box somewhere :D

Stefan please make it rain duvets on me

What a shame i live so far away!!!

you like daddy, good advices)

READ BOOKS PERIOD! stop been lazy people, this is the only way to master programming. find a school and find out what book they use and go out your way to get it.

learn the alphabet not the words

being in relationship i bacame MiN to MaX

Go to University. It's totally worth it

What the movement at 4:58, only possible for a martial artist who is kicking coding fundamental knowledge into students brains. For me the best moment in the video. Thanks.