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

In this video I share some of the MANY technologies, frameworks, and tools that I don't know. Why? Because I think it's an important thing to do!
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[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@mildredjwashington8036]

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

[@syedijlalhaider3657]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.😀

[@diogocarvalho744]

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

[@IsmetKovacevic]

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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@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).

[@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.

[@larrymaster1946]

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

[@moikanos11]

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

[@hdjfgt]

Amazing video Colt! Very important!

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@M-ABDULLAH-AZIZ]

Just what I needed to hear! Thanks Colt!

[@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!

[@ianterada6821]

Great video Colt, thank you!

[@abdelrahmanreda4072]

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

[@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.

[@jinwookkim8511]

Thanks for sharing what you think with others!

[@hjr2000]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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 👍🏼

[@gurukiran4567]

I needed this thank you Colt !

[@SwapnaRana]

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

[@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.

[@mocktarissa]

Thank you colt I needed that.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@DanDan-zs6wg]

Thanks for the insight and your words!

[@TimCluyts]

Nice video man! keep it up

[@beanindividual4000]

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

[@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!

[@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. ^_^

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@dowoyele]

Thank you for your honesty.

[@dinhlongnguyen8750]

I will be so hyped up if you release your react course :))

[@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.

[@AngelusChevalier]

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

[@GurpreetSingh-th1di]

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

[@abhishekchatterjee1328]

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

[@tobiasklaus345]

Awesome video !

[@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 :-)

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 👊

[@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.

[@drvp1997]

3:12 those are all really good bands

[@salmaN-yv4zb]

This video is so imortant and relevant to this day.

[@siddhants7091]

Great Video....really true

[@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...

[@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!

[@suryaprakash-rm3nf]

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

[@joelquintyn592]

This change my outlook so much

[@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!! ^.^

[@vatsalpatel3669]

1000000% honest video bro 👍 respect 🙏

[@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!

[@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

[@newworld3844]

Anxious for the React course!!!

[@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

[@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.

[@alexkatsanos8475]

Hey Colt! Thanks for this...there has to be a solid path that you can deviate slightly from but keeps you with enough skills that you will be in demand? Alex

[@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

[@misticalinteractive]

Dear Colt, thank you for this useful video. I just thinking if you will make a deep Node.JS course like you did for React. Thank you and have an awesome day!

[@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

[@cleansermacaroni9892]

I love Black Dice. That new album is killer

[@user-zp4yg8qi2j]

wow great vid

[@lohitpeesapati4423]

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

[@harminoffendl]

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

[@arogueotaku]

Hey Colt, after your React Course is done, do you think you can make an app on the MERN stack. I know all the technologies involved but I am yet to learn how all of them come together and build a complete app. And I have not seen a good tutorial on it anywhere yet. Thanks.

[@Flowerstokitty]

Video is too real. Great stuff man.

[@ghostriley5907]

colt, i was wondering that if you had any experiences at python web development like flask or django stuffs ? i am really enjoying your python course and eagerly waiting for react course. of course i also have interest in python web dev to expand my python knowledge.

[@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))

[@vsolyomi]

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

[@prashantrawal3765]

What a great video.. Inspirational ➕ motivation. Btw I'm into rabbit hole too

[@user-dx2sk4fe1k]

SuicideJs would be a great name for programming language

[@newworld3844]

Hey Colt! Will the React course be a udemy course or just a KZbin course ?

[@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.

[@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 👽🤙

[@naturallyweird661]

About the native is react native become a part of course?

[@chiquitocastaneda2851]

Good video, and good info but just out of curiosity do you know html, css and javascript well??? Chiquito...

[@frownless]

Please do more algorithm and data structure video

[@tsmspace]

I worked through the beginning of your udemy web developer course, but have basically stopped at bootstrap, what I'm looking for is more code-alongs with emphasis on css layouts, like flex-box and grids WITHOUT bootstrap, just to get more practice for repitition and familiarization.

[@ColtSteeleCode]

I'm currently working on a new smaller project-based course that is all about building a professional looking website with flexbox and the grid system. I'm trying something new by launching a series of 5-10 hour lower priced courses that focus on making a single polished project. The first one will be out in April!