2017 Closing Thoughts & Happy New Year!

Instagram: / davex.tech
Home: davidxiang.com
Book: www.amazon.com/dp/B07D5QNGVZ
Facebook Page: / davex.tech
Twitter: / davex_tech
Email: [e-mail]
#software #coding #softwaredevelopment #programming #howtocode

[@clar331]

Appreciate your videos Dave. Can't wait for your new videos in 2018. Happy holidays.

[@shahzebafroze4093]

Have great holidays! Looking forward to the next year with you

[@giovannipalomo6834]

As always, thanks for the words of wisdom Dave. Happy New Year!

[@kryob1]

sums it up very well. best wishes for 2018 from Germany!

[@NestorYamilGalvanAngeles]

Dave thank you for all the videos this you. Happy holidays and happy New year.

[@rudihartono-jf8ws]

thanks for your insight, Dave. I just graduate and your videos really help me getting bigger picture of real world.

[@mrreconoif_random]

Got my associates in Cybersecurity and networking. Going for my BA in Software engineering. Glad I found your channel. Please keep the videos coming they are helpful.

[@tonypaulo]

I learn a lot from you bro keep it up. Happy new year

[@jlh530i1]

great content as always

[@busyrand]

Really love and appreciate your content as usual Bro. Thanks for sharing all you do. Thanks for the detail. Fantastic insights on Advertising trends [round of applause].

[@mkrajaci]

Great advice. Maybe this help others. I also starting dev journey and browsing so much to find right for me. Advices are OK but you have to filter it through your personal expectations. I was thinking to go on python direction but acknowledge that swift and iOS development is what I want to do. Chose what you would do every day even if financial compensation isn't great. Relax, you will be happy and money will come. Bod bless you all and happy holidays.

[@KevinNguyen-ny1nq]

Great videos man

[@HoshCoding]

Thanks for you share, it's absolutely true

[@rekstrom100]

love all your videos. :)

[@joyrampage]

Hey Dave, I am graduating with an Honours of Mechatronic Engineering in the next 6 months, and I have been particularly interested in coding and software engineering as a whole. However I am moreso intrigued by the aspect of design than the actual prospect of coding. As such I've done a fair bit of research into careers I might be interested in and currently I am looking at Systems Engineering. My goal is to get into a high level managing position as quickly as possible (within reason, and not unproportionally quickly). Anyway, I have watched a lot of your videos recently to sort of give myself a better context of how the work life is and how I should expect the next few years of my life to be, and I was just wondering if you could give me some insight into a few things. Firstly, I just wanted to know perhaps a bit more in depth about the trade off between managing and technical jobs - with regards to at what point in time this is likely to occur in my job life, and whether it is worth it to stay in the technical side for a while prior to switching to the managing side or if it is worth it to just go straight into managing. Secondly I am also curious whether there are any other design related roles which might suit me as well as Systems Engineering, or even better and what their career path might look like.

[@THEescapebanana]

Can you do a quick estimation on how many hours it took you to get where you are today? Just to get a realistic view of how much time it takes to gain skills.

[@lennycarlson1178]

Hey Dave happy new year video suggestion: spectre etc secrutiyy issue. Also explaining why these things happen in software eg exploits? like how did the designer mess that up and only see it two years later..vulnerabilities etc. explanation on how they occur, patches

[@coolboy666pop]

FIRST!!!

[@primarypenguin]

Hey Dave, this past year I graduated with a Computer Engineering degree (B.S.) similar to you ( I know you got your Masters). I seem to be more drawn to software engineering and development in general because it is what I feel I am better at and have more experience doing, as opposed to more engineering and hardware related work, but I do enjoy both. What made you pursue the development side of things after getting your C.E. degree, instead of going down a more "engineer-ish" type path? I am struggling with the idea that if I take a software engineering job, that I will not be putting my engineering classes/education to any use. Any insight would be great, thanks. Really appreciate your videos

[@DaveXiang]

For me, the company I was at wasn't progressive enough and I thought software was the more progressive / future way to go in my career. To this day, I'm still not sure. What if data scientists is all people care about in 5 years and obsoletes us? I think it's a little too idealistic to think you will use your classes/edu for ALL your jobs for the rest of your career. It's a LONG time. I think if you find a good professional trajectory that uses your skill, then that's the perfect combo and godspeed to that. But what if your company doing hardware is dying and another thing (maybe software or something else) is positioned better ? I think when you are younger, you think more in terms of speciality i.e. what you're good at or what you've learned. Sooner than you think ~5 years, you'll optimize for career probably.

[@primarypenguin]

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the reply. Happy New Year!

[@chenchotshering4866]

Hi Dave, Thank you for the best wish and happy new year 2018 from Bhutan(A sandwich between giant China and India).

[@jasapol618]

Hi Dave, I am having a hard time distinguishing between the software engineering field and the computer science field. Do you know the difference?

[@lilgoldenboi]

Can you do a what’s on my MacBook video?

[@jlh530i1]

Dave, I'm curious about your opinion/experience with analysts/product managers. I.e. Do you have any tips for quantitative business people to be more successful when working with the software engineers? Recently moved from an analytics business unit into a team that is primarily engineers, and obviously the culture is different. Aside from learning version control and brushing up on CS fundamentals, can you offer any intangible advice?

[@DaveXiang]

Yea, that's a tough position sometimes. Depends on how "techy" some of those engineers are. I think you're doing the right thing. You have to make an effort to understand the tech as best you can. It's good to be curious about what they are working on and why it's hard or why it's easy. So in addition to brushing up on CS, you can try to understand what is being built. The tech people respect your technical expertise, and also your investment in what is actually being built on the ground (rather than staying too high level)

[@jlh530i1]

thanks, I appreciate the feedback

[@THEescapebanana]

Yo, I'm 10th! Also known as X.