yeaa there is a lot you have to do on your own to "learn" and be successful. obviously. anyone just going through the motions , minimal effort is not gonna learn no matter how good the learning tool is.

The xc project made containers work on freebsd, natively.

I was introduced to CodeCademy and Scratch in Middle School and almost none of it translated to college, especially now as an engineer. It's more straightforward now to make a project from scratch than 2013 (especially when you're a preteen) but starting a new project is the best way to learn. I wish more people would emphasize the step-by-step layout for absolute beginners when starting a new project or how to build a front end UI with an API and explaining what each part of the project does.

I still don't remember the boilerplate that sits on top of a html page, the doctype stuff. And I'm not a beginner.

The FreeCodeCamp course basically holds your hand throughout the entire length of the course. I took it, but only to an extent, and i realized i wasnt learning as much as i felt i was merely by completing the sections of the course. Designing websites on your own and messing up and a lot of trial and error is the only way to learn web dev

Next time do Odin Project, instead being one resource it gives multiple.

Misleading title! You just gave them the website without checking first and either gave them tests or exercises midway to test what they were learning and didnt teach them about localhost and other things...

I'm at my first tech job and I have never seen anyone pull required over time in our dev division. Even in our devops infra team it is quite rare. This is an issue based on role/team/company. Working in tech already ruins your health due to the time commitment, sitting, etc. if they want to ruin your sleep and thus your health temporarily or long term I hope you are very highly compensated. I have no issue with occasional overtime but pulling all nighters repeatedly and being on call is totally different. It seems like you can pull overtime or treat yourself like shit or avoid taking care of yourself temporarily when you're young, but in my case (in a different industry) doing so lead to a chronic auto immune disease occurring much earlier than it otherwise would have. It's a lot better now that I have more control of my lifestyle and it's very consistent.

I didn’t watch past one minute of the video but it’s FREE code camp just putting that out there. I’m currently in school and they charge 1500 per class to barely teach anything

Where is this?

😂😂

I done a C++ course on Udemy, full story is on my KZbin page. BUT the difference is, for each lesson in the course, I coded alongside it, copying the code (and making changes) as the lessons went on and make notes in my own words. This was of massive help to lock the concepts in my head. I could have just sat there and allowed the course to play, but I took control and really learnt.

Merry Christmas! You look like the doctor from Hägar, he always has bad news...

Fantastic video though!!,!

I think it depends on the person and also their ability to write notes and practise. Some people are able to learn something simply by reading. Others need it painfully and repetitively reinforced. Other need to write detailed notes on it. Others need to write bullet points. Some need to use paper. Others have it all on a computer or tablet. I am seeing myself that I need to have it reinforced. And so I am starting to get myself into the mindset where I will simply open an IDE and try to code something I’ve learned and code from scratch. Same with other things. I, personally, will learn by doing. I see that is the only why that I… ME… can learn. But I think this really depends on the person.

I could do it. Have made 2 for other people and 1 for myself.

"Escape analysis" is when the compiler determines whether values are allocated on the stack or the heap. Ofcourse the are other nuances to how it works in Golang but the general idea is around memory allocation and management. Love your old and new content.

The outcome of success is mandated by the will to learn and work.

I think this is normal for most programming courses out there...I did one last year and was pretty basic and mediocre, I mean I learnend 80% of the stuff I know just by myself. But the thing is, at least in that course, you had to make a fullstack project in order to get the certificate. We where 20 people at first, only 5 of us got the certificate 😅. The others couldn't do anything, some did all the 6 months that lasted the course and still couldn't understand the most basic things....

But wsl is faster

It's not the problem with these 'free' websites, they're great. It's that some skip lessons big time, zippin' their way through the course

I can't understand why people think that what makes one a developer is the fact they memorize stuff and don't copy paste from internet. I mean, people really can't understand how pathetic is, to think you're better because you remember say the syntax well. Don't you understand that everything is copy-paste? Even when you write something on screen from your mind. You basically copied that from some source and pasted inside your mind and then copied it from your mind and pasted it in your screen. What the hell is the point? You'll never manage to memorize everything and that's stupid. The objective should be to understand how something works. Big picture -> connections of puzzle pieces -> puzzle pieces. The reason, these platforms fail to teach, is because they focus on giving puzzle pieces to their students to memorize. It's the connections that make you understand something, not the components. People couldn't built a web page out of pure scratch without looking? So what? I've designed and developed websites many times and still can't do a simple web page. I still forget things all the time. What is the point of not looking? What is the point of knowing the speed of light when you can simply just check it on the web? I mean that's why it's all there.

🤣🤣 Kubernetes runs the tech world yet has one of the worst code bases.

Why should they? Making web pages is a designer's job, not a programmer's one.

This is why learning how to learn is an essential skill. The problem is teaching them how to retain what they learned. It doesn't matter what bootcamp you go to. If you don't practice and don't do space repetition, you'll not remember anything.

That’s why I love this field. It all comes down to fundamentals. Also, a creative mind and the ability to keep learning, make things, and keep solving problems

Hey dude, can you please mentor me?

As someone who went through FreeCodeCamp on the journey to becoming a professional developer, your 5 year old knowledge on FCC is out of date completely. At least as of 2020 the certificates require a project to be completed and if I recall right you end up making at least 5 sites from scratch by yourself just on the first leg of the cert. and they teach you how to host on GitHub. I really don’t care if you like it or not, but figured I’d at least let others know

When I finished freecodecamp I could actually code, I have a computer science degree too

ETCD is not the only distributed configuration store out there. Distributed sqlite (dqlite/cowsql) is perfectly fine, and for single nodes sqlite is going to be much much more reliable.

FCC gives tutorials, you need to extract from those tutorials and apply it yourself. edit: lol I got a codecademy add 8 minutes into video

What are your thoughts on The Odin Project?

I haven't touched a course since I first learned programming 5 or so years ago through SoloLearn. If you never create something of your own to apply your knowledge then you don't really understand programming, you're just following a list of instructions.

I did freecodecamp halfway through, I realized I was just writing what I saw and didnt learn anything. Was so close to giving up, discovered cs50 it was hard asl but that has helped me so much. Upon completing the 11 week course I built my own web app, with a database, had jinja flask, html/css/js. Furthermore it helped me move to linux. Helped me understand CS theory. Its wonderful

Why 100devs is CLEAR

day 36 missing

honestly I dont use freecodecamp to be able to make a webpage from memory afterwards. I use it to get to know some concepts of webdev. i think if you sit down with 0 knowledge beforehand you gain nothing but a certificate.

Do a 100devs review. A lot of people from The Odin Project ditched it and went to that instead. Wondering if it's a better course or not.

Yeah but thats how you learn... If you forget how to write something in html or css, what do you do? sit there for hours trying to figure out what tag to use or google it.. lol

So my HTML for Dummies book that I used to teach myself html on a whim back in the day is actually more valuable than gamified chunks of out of context coding on these websites? 🧐 So really all I would have to do is get an updated For Dummies book with current syntax and be all set until coding changes again? 😄 I learned how to do so much just from that book by simply doing it again and again and figuring out why something was broken then fixing it. All this in Dreamweaver. I also learned how to upload things to ftp servers in that same time period. I did give one of these coding sites you mentioned a shot about a year ago now and I noticed that there was a real lack of repetition even after completing a section. I didn't feel like I was learning anything that would stick or having my mind refreshed about anything that would cause an *aha* moment. Or even challenged to fix something wrong into something right. 😅

Sad truth about tutorials, you can easily copy, but also practice, and experiment on your own.

Free Code Camp (both the website and their YT channel) is an amazing, free resource. It will definitely teach you what index.html is, and more (HTML tags, forms, CSS flexbox and grid, media queries, basic animations...). Regardless of the resource, you have to practice with your own projects.

The web development certificate is pretty basic. And how old are these people, you made it sound like they're kids with the story of parents wanting certs. Can't be too harsh on them then. Honestly this feels like my professor being frustrated at the class for not being able to code a chat room with java the minute after they taught the class how to program a net socket without us even learning network protocols yet. We'll learn it eventually, not all of us, but that's just how it is. Out of 40 software engineering graduates, probably 10 or less actually code on level you'd want them at. Because passing a class versus learning and practicing because you like it (or desperately need the money) is very different - with different outcomes.

These courses on youtube are good for getting you unstuck when practicing a concept you just learnt in class. Don't ever rely on them alone to learn, try and practice as much as possible and ask a teacher or an experienced person if you're really stuck. Personally I found portfolio courses to have helped me a lot.

all the angular and react and other abstracted BS left us with script kiddies who went to college on daddy's money to chase a bag and they really don't give a shit about the tech.

why I watching this? 😢

Ok I get the point but tbh such basic knowledge, even though its kinda embarrassing to not know, isnt the end of the world at all since such stuff you can just look up in seconds via google or some AI tool. Who cares about html structure if u can find it out or have some ai do it for you within seconds. Much more important is understand the mechanisms of programming and the way of thinking and problem solving. Anything thats easiely findable via google or some ai tool isnt really something u need to know by heart. Its best if u do know it by heart but it isnt a big problem. Cause if we are being for real then all of those 45 people can easiely do ur challenge, if u give them access to google or some LLM. Nobody is ever gonna fail cause he is lacking some basic knowledge that one can figure out within minutes via the internet, what is the key important factor is if they can think like a programmer and solve problems. Thats one point I wanna make. Another thing is I dont think u can really blame these resources, I see such resources more like a tool, a stepping stone, some help that luckily is out there so that people can get started and learn. But nobody is ever gonna succeed cause of such resources, they are gonna succeed cause they want it, cause they dont just get some resources and think just finishing those will automatically make them good. No. Instead the people that succeed are those that have a real willingness to get good, very good at something, and those people will feed themselves many many resources and work through them with an active mind, diving deep into the material and figuring things out. Those people have ambitions and plans, projects that they wanna work on. And they do such projects on the side while doing the learning. So dont blame the resources, if you wanna blame someone blame the people. We humans can accomplish great things, but we first have to find out what we really want. If we want something and put all our effort into it, we can not be stopped. But if our heart and mind and full attention is not in it, then no matter what resource, we will not see great results, or at least not as great results as we could see.

As someone who started my journey at the very beginning with learning how to type, the Odin Project filled the gap between not understanding the vocabulary, jargon, and terms and getting my first Linux distribution and becoming comfortable with the command line. I went my own way once the projects started to focus on web development. Not because it’s not a useful skill, but because I was more interested in learning how the computer works and using all the open-source software that I, before being introduced to Linux, assumed I couldn’t afford to learn to integrate into my life. In summation, the first half of the Odin project was a great “on-boarding” process and did a great job of teaching me how to teach myself, and ultimately opened my eyes to what computers really were. Buuuut, I assume you’re right in saying it’s not what you need to get a job. To me it seemed similar to elementry school in the fact that it’s necessary, but not the end of your education/ not enough to make you employable. As a leisurely introduction, it’s great. But if you’re trying to be employable as quickly as possible, it might not be hands-on enough/ in-depth enough.

great video man. ive noticed a lot of job search advice (or any advice on youtube lol) lacks a "human" / "emotional" aspect to it. it's extremely rigid. it teaches you to be the "ideal", rather than to be yourself. this is very practical advice that you can honestly apply to any conversation, interview or not.

FreeCodeCamp doesn't suck; your students suck.