Things I Don't Know as of 2019 (In Programming)

[@TheChodex]

When i was starting out i asked Derek Banas (youtuber) "How did you learn all these languages are you an alien?" and he just said to me "Learn one language and learn it really well and then the rest will follow", and so i did. For 2 years or so i went and learned C++ as much as i can, and then when i tried C# it took me like 1 week to get basic understanding and around 3 months to call myself proficient at it, then i tried JavaScript and it took me 1 month to be proficient at it, and then i tried python and then it took me ~2 weeks. By this time i realized that almost all languages are more or less the same. So there isn't really a point in learning all of them. Programming is NOT about learning languages, just like being a musician is not about playing musical instruments, ultimately programming is all about SOLVING PROBLEMS, so what do you do once you get proficient in language / framework? Build cool stuff and solve problems! That's it! And if you see a new tool that will help you solve problem better/easier/quicker then just learn that new tool that is it. :D Hope this helped somebody who is starting out just like i was 4 years ago.

[@josepharte]

To be fair though, C++ is a tough language that forces you to actually know what you're doing.

[@Ubben1999]

If you only go for imperative languages, then yes, they will mostly seem the same. Functional programming (say Haskell) is quite different, logic programming (say Prolog) even more so, and then you have even more oddball stuff like constraint programming (only tried MiniZinc). There is a lot to gain just from practicing different paradigms.

[@alimeesum5178]

i did the same started with C++ and again started with Java learned them both for like 2.5 years and then everything else was a piece of cake

[@SentimentalMo]

I thought C++ was the reason language lawyers exist 🤓

[@ujjalacharya3186]

I just wanted to say: you are the best at your field.And your web developer bootcamp changed my life as a developer. Although I followed many other tutorials and books, that is what made me started in this journey as a developer. I cannot express my gratitude. Thank you so much.

[@rajchavan1276]

Ujjal Acharya can you mention the other tutorials and books that you followed?

[@texmjm5018]

Amen to that.

[@antoniomartinez3429]

Thank you so much Colt! I am also completing your Javascript Algorithms and Data Structures Bootcamp and I am without words. Really thank you for all your help!

[@vasantpns]

nah hes not the best, but he is good at teaching

[@iustus_]

Your humor and wit honestly make you my favorite instructor/person. Thank-you!

[@duuhhveeed]

Your analogy of music and technologies is the exact reason people admire your type of teaching. Your channel is bond for great things Colt

[@xileets]

Of all the courses I've taken, I'll go to Colt before anyone else, (even in many of my college profs).

[@dominikamatwiejczyk136]

A very human video, and it is truly reassuring to know that there is no need to master everything at once. Thank you so much Colt!

[@Isookov]

The things you said in the video is really what makes you a truly instructor, but more importantly it makes you a great man! Think of Kubernetes like class room in the school. You have teacher and kids. That teacher is Kubernetes and kids are Docker Containers. Usually job of the teacher is to organize all the kids, tell them what to do. Kubernetes is a way to manage docker containers.

[@vicpantoja22]

Hey Colt, I just want to thank you for doing this video. I've been a junior developer for almost a year now, (I actually started learning web development with you in your web development course) changing from a biology major to an information system major has been a journey and self doubt happens almost daily so it gives me confidence to watch this.

[@syedijlalhaider3657]

react will be my 4th course with you Colt. U r awesome instructor.

[@sco1369]

thanks so much for pointing this out! I was scared for so long to apply for a job because people always write these gigantic lists of things that you 'have to know ' before applying to a job. I easily landed a job without knowing Git, Redux, any algorithms/data science, design patterns or whatever. Especially when you're going for your first job, just be able to build cool stuff. Everything else you will pick up naturally when you start working.

[@RogerFederer777]

Hey, the very first webdev course that I bought was your webdev bootcamp. I loved it, and it started me on my journey to become a dev like a year ago now. It's really a great course and I can't thank you enough for it. But this post is probably just as important for me. I am someone who if there are 99 things I know and 1 I don't know, I feel like a pretender. Realizing that nobody knows everything, and you admitting that there are things you don't know (yet) helps ease that pressure and propel me to applyin to a job more freely. Thanks!!!

[@bat-elmiller4285]

Hi Colt. Taking your class right now and loving it. I am a cat lover myself, so I am really liking all the animal references. I can totally relate to being overwhelmed with so much that I have to learn, so it is a relief hearing from an expert like you that it's okay not to know everything.

[@potowogreedo]

Thanks for this video. I've been learning for like 18 months and I'm so overwhelmed with managing all the things I'm supposed to learn that I've barely written any code at all. Web programming is particularly vulnerable to it because it's most appealing to newbies, and it's so rewarding for content creators to post a clickbait headline + include meme/low-insight discussion points or a plagiarised tutorial from the docs. The incentives to make perenially great content simply aren't there: there's literally planned obsolescence in digital/cultural products now, not just physical ones.

[@mobarakjama5570]

Colt, you're Just the best and I don't know what you mean by I don't have friends You're my best friend and a friend to a whole punch of your students, Thanks for every thing.

[@cassya7930]

Colt, great video. I'm one of your students, and I want to say that this video were really valuable. It's nice hear such words from an experienced developer and also a such great teacher. Thanks.

[@arturis]

Sharing some thoughts: I am a ColdFusion Developer. Some people in the Web Dev industry look down on that - In fact, when I learned CF version 4 back in the day (1998ish, I believe it was still owned by Allaire at the time) there were already articles around the 'Net declaring CF to be a dead language and telling everyone to avoid it. That was 20 years ago, CF is now on version 13 (2018) and is still in use by corporations and the US government. That doesn't mean that I haven't learned other things to supplement - Front end technologies like CSS/SASS/Javascript/JQuery/etc compliment CF incredibly well - but I did pretty much exactly what you say here; I picked a language that I can work with and I specialized in it. I am currently a CF Administrator for NASA and the bulk of my work is migrating established CF Apps over to containers. I guess the TLDR of my comment is: Find what works well for your particular brain and get good at it, don't worry so much about what is new and trendy. If it enables you to make cool and useful things, it is the "right choice" for you. Anyway, keep doing what you do, Cole. Love the channel, will keep an eye out for more videos. ^_^

[@brenty3766]

Hey colt, just wanted to say thanks for everything! I can't afford college and I wasn't sure what path I wanted to take. Being able to try new things affordably with a teacher is an amazing gift you've given us all. Keep up the great work!

[@ResilientCurmudgeon]

Thanks for this, Colt. I've known for some time that you're the best of the best when it comes to teaching; what I enjoyed most here were the life coaching insights you shared, especially about change, the need to keep growing, avoiding the perfectionism trap and even your nod to Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns," always a puzzling state of affairs. Two thumbs-up, as usual.

[@churchill799]

Being a non-professional musician myself I can really put myself into Your shoes and imagine how It was around producers / musicians with years of experience. Definitely intimidating, but the worst part was probably discouragement and bitterness. I know that You've already dealt with It pretty well, but for the silver lining I had to find myself (similarly to You) I guess things are even better that way - to treat music as a treatment and joy to share with people, if felt that way, rather than something You need to push to Your brain to keep up with others. Today I can say: thankfully - I am pretty close to start working as a full stack thanks to You Colt and not worry about the fact that I don't know latest Suicide album. You're honest and awesome teacher & human being, thank You!

[@noobzaebot]

I took your python bootcamp and algorithm + data structure. You are great at what you are doing. Now I have a job doing django development. You changed my life. Keep up the good work. Thanks for your honesty.

[@diogocarvalho744]

Great video! It really gets overwhelming sometimes with the amount o new (and old) tech on the "To Learn List".

[@meganrodriguez1086]

This was the best thing I could hear right now. Also, you are by far the best instructor I have come across and I'm including all the professors I've had in college so far. The GOAT of instructors.

[@angelarae63]

Thanks for making this video. I just started your WDBC. I looked at Glass Door and some other sites at web developer job openings and can see why people get so overwhelmed by all the stuff they think they need to know. But I can see the good sense in what you are saying. I can stop worrying about that.😀

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

Awesome, I was super inspired by Dan Abramov's post as well and when I saw this title pop up on KZbin I was hoping for more of the same. Thanks, it's nice to realize the greats who seem to know everything don't actually know everything. It gives me some hope.

[@larrymaster1946]

2 weeks, eyyy. My mind and body are ready for you Colt :)

[@xileets]

For everyone out there, as someone who's worked in multiple different fields, I assure you "fake it till you make it" is far from uncommon. Being professional in EVERY field is this way - you are always learning, and gaining more experience. Only the non-professionals assume they know everything, and the people who never succeed are the ones who wait until they DO know everything to try.

[@demohub]

Wow. Such a brilliant idea for a video. I enjoyed watching. Now inspired to make a similar topic on my video. There are lots of things I don't know. Sure the world would be happy to know about that. Keep up the great work. Cheers!

[@mildredjwashington8036]

Thank you so much for saying this! I really needed to hear this today.

[@vishweshvarvenkat7914]

Literally an eye opener....!!!! Actually you addressed my current issue...!! Not knowing much about this sector (graduated as Mechanical engineer), I thought getting to know much things like AngularJs, MongoDb....... and much more makes me fit for a job. Also only on having good knowledge on this stuffs makes me fit as a developer. Thanks to god and colt for showing this at right time..! Thanks sir... for this generous post.

[@TheMrshawnpaul]

Thank you for being genuine and authentic! It truly means a lot. Being new to coding can definitely be overwhelming and I really appreciate the honest insight into what being a programmer is really like.

[@muchipanda]

I love your tutorials and your course. And you always make me laugh! I'm only a beginner in this field (and often a quite lost one) so thank you for this honest video!

[@МахмудТалибов-ц5г]

SuicideJs would be a great name for programming language

[@NoOne-om9bb]

He wanted to work at studio but guess what... He is working in visual studio code close enough...

[@modibosanogo3491]

Thank you so much ,Colt Steele for your honesty !!There is saying from my country Mali which is: To me ,honesty is the biggest important virtue to hold to when it comes down to knowledge and teaching it . And your advice will help me a lot:I am a front end student at Open-classrooms and your teaching has helped a lot . You are so awesome that I bought all your courses on Udemy. In fact I am one of your biggest fun. I am looking forward to learning react from your react course which is about to be released soon if I have understood you well.

[@nicholasmaniccia1005]

Thank you for this video, I know you from your Udemy Data Structures and Algorithm class and honestly that stuff makes me think you are a genius so to see people who understand advanced topics take a second and show us they are human too is just as helpful as spreading knowledge.

[@StefanTravis]

XKCD once defined programming as "Gluing things together you don't understand".

[@jinwookkim8511]

Thanks for sharing what you think with others!

[@raghavgupta1998]

Sir, This is awesome. U have really solved a problem lying deep inside of me. It's really overwhelming that I don't know is this and this and this and this ... So on. But really, I agree with whatever u said. Its very true and down to earth hearing from u. I loved it and u ofcourse first.

[@shawntaylor9338]

Colt, this was a fantastic video and as a software engineer for over 14 years I'm still amazed at how much I don't know, and how much I want to learn. It really is hard to know where to start and I'm glad I'm not the only one who runs into that problem. I've enrolled in several of your Udemy courses, and the Web Development Bootcamp was incredible. Looking forward to your React course!

[@cozybeatz5096]

Great video Colt!. Felt like this some time ago when I started but I since snapped out of it and I've been taking it step by step. It's been really great considering there's been a lot of information and oh the holy web3, we'll get to that later :) Your videos are amazing colt

[@amenamabrouk]

You are god sent! This is exactly the video I needed to see. Thank you so much for all your work! I signed up for your udemy course and I'm really excited to finish it. Thank you for your transparency. Much appreciated!

[@TheKrisHimself]

Governor: Kubernetes is so-named because it translates from (κυβερνήτης in Greek) to governor, helmsman or captain - and further, 'gubernare' translates from Latin to government

[@lohitpeesapati4423]

You just gave us the Bruce Banner behind the scenes. Appreciate these videos which show the shadow life of developers.

[@suryaprakash-rm3nf]

Don't worry pal we all will fit in. Looking forward for your react.

[@moikanos11]

Thanks Colt. I'm hoping to start out my developer career soon and videos like this cure my anxiety.

[@DanielMonteiroNit]

Great list of bands. Capture very well my taste

[@DanielMonteiroNit]

Being fair, most of those have some 2 or 3 great albums and some just good in between.

[@drvp1997]

3:12 those are all really good bands

[@gulerville]

thank you Colt for sharing this.I have been going crazy lately by the thought of learning all the the most renowned languages and frameworks just in case I wound find the right one for me

[@nicotambellini3830]

Colt great point. For me it was initially overwhelming all the different things out there but I think if you focus on where you want to end up you can find a pretty good pathway and skillset to focus on. For instance I know some of the stuff is a little outdated in the web development bootcamp course (eg ejs5 vs current).However, in the grand scheme we are learning most of what we need to know and more importantly I think we are learning how to find answers for the things we don't know and all the resources available to help and how to find/use them. Overall you are a great teacher and I have learned a ton as I transition from a scientist to an IT based career.

[@joaquimneto5617]

Damn you Colt! I didn't learn CornJS and now my wife left me!!!

[@dennismatic6219]

It's always interesting to see strength/weakness of one another. I have experience with docker and k8s from an sysadmin perspective. But not knowing how web apps/ are built and how they work; that was something I wanted to gain a better understanding.

[@sskdev5116]

I agree with you. I’ve graduated from a boot camp but I’ve been struggling to find a job as a web developer for the past two years. Now I get feedback that do you have something related to current technology and I’m like no. I’ve literally burnt out with how many new technologies have come out that I feel like I hate coding now. But it’s a struggle and I’m taking it slowly since thankfully I am still employed in my old job but changing careers is never easy anyway.

[@hdjfgt]

Amazing video Colt! Very important!

[@hjr2000]

Great video Colt - brings some common sense to the process of learning and development.

[@huthayfa1723]

I can relate to most of the comments on how we started our journey into development thanks to Colt. Wouldn't it be great if we had a platform to connect and share our experience with each other ? Like a discord server or a subreddit

[@IfISpeakBigTrouble]

devrant is a good one

[@abdelrahmanreda4072]

You earned my humble subscribe I really like your honesty and making yourself vulnerable this some courage you have i salute you

[@MilicLounge]

@Colt Steele, this video was so real! Thank you for being brave enough to make it. Ohh and don't worry too much about your old buddies, I'll be your friend. But on one condition, you have to *meow* in one of your videos!! ^.^

[@atmospheric_b]

i also wanted to be music producer , but it was impossible for me to get popularity and i became web developer, thanks to your bootcamp))

[@beanindividual4000]

This was a great video, Colt. I came here to take a little break from your bootcamp on Udemy. Was worth the visit.

[@Mostafaabobakr7]

why the dislike ????

[@bartolol]

Nice video Colt - Started the back end of your bootcamp course(amazing stuff) and there’s just something about you. Glad to have found you on Udemy and YT 👍🏼

[@timothyshores]

Wow I didn't realize that you transitioned from music industry to web development. That's currently what I'm doing right now.

[@lem3328]

Kubernetes the physical environment designed for developers to promote optimal code output in the winter, while promoting wellbeing and minimize seasonal affective disorder, especially in places like San Francisco where the summer days feel like winter. The name is a derivative of cubicle and hibernation.

[@lem3328]

That's my understanding from the 2017 Google cloud onboard conference.

[@LofiWurld]

Gd video, loads of people love to make videos like they woke up understanding code. But if honest is super appreciated in this space 👊

[@parrotraiser6541]

There is no concept so simple and basic that it can't be complicated beyond recognition by the author of a "solution" that is more complicated than the original. (Mostly because they don't actually understand the fundamentals.)

[@saisonysrinu]

Hi, Do a course on flutter.

[@rorygrignard9742]

Howdy Colt, I'm a South African trying to get a Frontend developer job in Ireland, because I have a French passport.. this video was so relevant for me.. Thanks 👽🤙

[@AngelusChevalier]

very good point... I prefer to learn what is relevant and always grow n learn when needed

[@aratamiyamura]

YOU ARE MAKING A REACT COURSE? Just when I needed to learn it the best programming instructor I've ever seen is going to publish one :D Amazing video BTW, sometimes it can feel really overwhelming when there are new tools coming out all the time specially with web development, I can't imagine how does it feel from an instructor's perspective with all us students expecting you to be able to teach everything.

[@denravonska]

This is probably the biggest reason why I have stayed away from web development. If I start learning whatever is hot right now it's going to be obsolete by the time I grasp it. Or if I finally manage to catch up, I'd need to do it full time just to keep afloat. Right now I prefer my C++ which I can follow at a somewhat manageable pace.

[@mattiarasulo9934]

Another GREAT teacher on Udemy says "Programming is the same as an open-book exam". That single sentence struck me. That's SO true, patience and logic are the key component. With the right focus and plenty of time you can build about anything you'll ever want!

[@christopherli8545]

Who is that teacher?

[@mattiarasulo9934]

I don't know if it's correct to write it under this channell but I will, Angela Yu! PS: I LOVE Colt! 💖 @@christopherli8545

[@ianterada6821]

Great video Colt, thank you!

[@M-ABDULLAH-AZIZ]

Just what I needed to hear! Thanks Colt!

[@vsolyomi]

So Gang of Four also recorded some music? Was the album called "Patterns"?

[@nikkidoes]

I'll be your friend, Colt!

[@zaraczkizaraczki1755]

.... Colt, it's a great content as always. It points out how much I don't know but if you are persistent enough it doesn't matter really... True friends stick with you forever even if you have no time to meet but once or twice a year. quality over quantity...

[@cleansermacaroni9892]

I love Black Dice. That new album is killer

[@visceras7979]

Everyone can read the documentation for a given framework and learn it on the fly. In a year alone I learnt Django Angular NodeJS JSF MongoDB Cassandra Redis Neo4J Android Development Ionic + some other random things .. what matters are the patterns and paradigms + general algorithmic theory. Everyone can make a for loop, few know if it really is the best solution for instance.

[@jimf.6879]

It's alright not to know everything. You will get job without it also. But you must learn it if your company requires it.

[@spenceringram1493]

I'm more interested on how you came up with all your great graphics!! Did you make them from scratch? AWESOME VIDEO! I subbed. I'm also in your udemy course. It's the BEST!!!! Thank you thank you

[@abhishekchatterjee1328]

Waiting for the react course :) Colt you are the best teacher out there!

[@GurpreetSingh-th1di]

Whatever you need just learn it😀 btw your complete web development course really helped me in building project so thank you sir

[@raghavgupta1998]

Sir, i think u should also start something where we can ask you about some things we face while building our custom exercises during the courses. Because in the course qna, we can ask only the stuff included in the course curriculum.

[@leanprogrammer]

Great video... My friend tried to explain docker and how containers are better than vm but honestly I still don't get it.. Your mysql course is amazing, congrats

[@subhamprasad1373]

I have a request can you Please make video on es6 classes , constructor and inheritance and how to access parent class method and elements in child class and also this keyword in es6 class... Please

[@salmaN-yv4zb]

This video is so imortant and relevant to this day.

[@Luxcium]

You are my favourite impostor I think you’re one of the best at doing video tutorials I Love your style and your insecurity is part of your style I like that you don’t mind feeling vulnerable or being yourself :-)

[@RahulSolanki-iz5hu]

First comment😅✌️.... waiting for react course😅😂😂

[@devin58]

How did people find out he was releasing a react course before this video ?

[@lone-warrior-13]

as a junior front end developer I'm starting to get frustrated, there is so much to learn and not enough time. jobs requirements are also very disappointing they usually expect you to have several years of experience in numerous technologies and frameworks and a computer science degree.

[@BoyOfTheFuture4987]

Personally I would like to say. You have done a great thing in choosing to teach rather than going in the whole music industry. Yes you may not have a lot of fans in teaching. But with your teaching you can help and guide people to set their life. Unlike in in music industry you would have made people "feel good" for a short time(imo). Being in music industry could change you as well. you know demands/criticism from fans, manager etc. I am doing your bootcamp course and I love it (I am just a bit annoyed that you choose dog over cat. Lol). You have helped me to take a path in a ocean of paths. Once I am done I will also look into the react course (if I get some cash in hand lol)

[@GeekMustHave]

Where you talking to me, it sure sounded like it. There no one else around here who has 5 videos on every new "thing" announced or thinks they need to know 20-30 "Things" before they write the first program. If you go by the stickers on my notebook I know more than the top 5 KZbin instructors combined, saying that the notebook does look cool. This video earned you a new subscriber. Keep broadcasting!!

[@mocktarissa]

Thank you colt I needed that.

[@Danachew]

Pfffft...we all know turnip.js is where it's at. Seriously though this was such a helpful video Colt. I pretty much burnt myself out two months ago on trying to learn too much at one time. I just kept piling new languages and concepts on, that it became this mountain of only partially understandable stuff. I honestly haven't sat down and coded anything since. Which is a shame because I was really enjoying what I was learning. So I'm taking a break to mentally refuel and when I do come back I'm going to focus on the core stuff (which is mainly getting real good at JS) and then going on from there at a steady but not breakneck pace.

[@Atlaswith3legs]

Thanks for this video! Very encouraging to me o had these feelings just cause there is so much to learn I didn’t know when I should start looking into applying for dev jobs

[@TimCluyts]

Nice video man! keep it up

[@huntercoxpersonal]

In your list of bands and albums mentioned by your colleagues at the record label I noticed “Jonathan Richman”.. 😂 reminded me to recommend everyone watch his live performance of “I Was Dancing At A Lesbian Bar” on KZbin.. But for a more relevant comment; I love the idea of this video (or dude’s article).. good luck on your educational endeavors!

[@SwapnaRana]

I needed to see this. Thank you, Colt! :)

[@texmjm5018]

Colt, this is a great video. I like the vulnerability. Shows humanity behind the tech. My sole experience with your journey is your awesome SQL course on Udemy. Perhaps you could run another video series, showing which of the unknowns you chose to pursue, why you pursue it, your struggles, how you overcame them. I work in a clinical data field and can tell you that you are dead on... what do I choose next is a recurring theme. That journey requires some introspection on where I want to go as opposed to where the industry seems to want me to go. I don't have the courage to blog that here. Perhaps you do. Thanks for the great posts!

[@vatsalpatel3669]

1000000% honest video bro 👍 respect 🙏

[@harminoffendl]

Surprised to see those krautrock bands. How was listening to can for the first time?

[@siddhants7091]

Great Video....really true