the best advice I can give you about learning to code

[@kingdomVI]

One of the best videos I've watched in all of 2024. Very honest feedback.

[@iarawy.]

we need more people like him, fr

[@oksanamarmyl]

Hi @jowee! Thanks for the advice! I'm also learning to code and just reached the React section. I’ve definitely fallen into the trap of rushing and trying to learn everything at once. I’ll take your advice to slow down and focus on one thing at a time-I hope it helps! 😊

[@nicholaspark4166]

Thank you for making this video! I’m just starting to learn programming and this was encouraging as well as informative :)

[@desmondqoza123]

🤣😂🤣I liked this video a lot.. It made me to laugh so profusely that tears ran down, especially the part where you said you were in college - that image man is so awesome, I love that image . But it is true what you are implying. I finished HTML CSS and I'm about to finish JAVASCRIPT. I'm taking it one language at a time. I'm more into understanding the how's and why's... the concepts of each step. Functions are tricky and you need to dwell until you understand and make it your own thing

[@jooweee]

awesome! that's a good approach to take it slow and learn properly functions were pretty difficult for me to understand at first too, but the more you use them, it becomes automatic

[@musicplaylist6909]

Also, dont be scared to start with tutorials that showcase core features of languages or frameworks. I know there are some psychos that tell you the best way to learn is to start building a project, but this to me, is akin to telling someone that the best way to learn to swim by diving into the ocean...its just not going to work and you will be overwhelmed and end up drowning. So take your time, start with the fundamentals, watch and read, take notes, try to implement small things for repetition purposes, rinse and repeat until you are comfortable enough to build a small toy project to test your skill. Once you feel more comfortable, move onto learning a particular tech stack and repeat the above steps again. Eventually you will get so comfortable that building larger projects beyond small toy ones are not as daunting as it seems.

[@AshRodders-vg6xw]

thank you i nearly gave up ive just completed the odin projects foundations and i feel like ive wasted a year of my life flat out trying to study and i still needed a tutorial and bing to explain what was happening i get it now but i feel like i cheated myself. ive learnt alot but is this normal at this stage?

[@musicplaylist6909]

​@@AshRodders-vg6xw Depends for what track you're on. The fndamental track eg. basic html css, js according to a friend of mine who's super active on their discord should take only a couple months eg. 1-3 months for complete beginners who know nothing at all about programming. But dont stress how long it takes, just make sure you actually learn things, memorise the concepts, its ok to forget syntax and refer to documentation but the concepts is whats important. eg. when learning javascript you should remember what promises are, call backs, array decompositions. For css, remember your different layouts maybe some basic animations and pseudo classes and so on. If you struggle even after a year of basics, then you absolutely have cheated yourself, in which case, I suggest to GO BACK, and learn again, re-attempt the small projects they told you to do, and maybe this time try to write cleaner code, and whatnot sadly if you actually want to be a good web-dev there are no shortcuts. The people who do take shortcuts and land jobs will get exposed really quickly.

[@AshRodders-vg6xw]

@@musicplaylist6909 thank you i will do that i appreciate your time

[@tahahrc4811]

you deserve more followers

[@thanoo1601]

I am current struggle and depress about I wasted my 6 month class and still can't code properly in Html and Css.So it started to feel like maybe I am too dumb for this or I chose the wrong path but this video make me feel better .Thank you.

[@AshRodders-vg6xw]

same man a year of odin and im using solutions ect.....

[@itsashikillahi3900]

Well-explained 👏🏻

[@sivasaravanan5890]

nice video❤

[@snipersev0743]

Good video

[@gbucks5117]

Is hard specially if you bad at math 😢

[@jooweee]

it's hard, but it will get easier as you spend more time on it 😊

[@furqantarique3484]

I don't want to be jobless due to AI

[@jooweee]

I understand how you feel, especially since AI is prevalent in the media nowadays... Other software engineers can chime in here as well. My take is that AI is not as good as people think. It does not work autonomously and currently, it's used as a tool to code faster. For me, it replaced googling / Stackoverflow. Software engineering is also not all about coding. It's about solving problems and communicating with others to align on issues. As you gain experience, you'll realize that writing code becomes the easy part of the job

[@furqantarique3484]

@@jooweee your suggestion?

[@jooweee]

@@furqantarique3484 don't worry about things out of your control. I don't know your current situation, but if you want to become a software engineer, give it everything you have. you can control your mindset and skills. focus on those and you will succeed