Your Approach to Programming is Wrong

Hi all, I wish I drilled this into my head sooner.
I love you guys, thank you so much for the support.
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Timestamps
My Approach (The Wrong Way) 0:00
1. Code, a lot 1:00
2. Reflect on your code 1:50
3. Read Solutions, of others 2:14
#softwareengineering #programming #computerscience

[@inazumarai7690]

the video length is much appreciated

[@NoOne-ev3jn]

I swear to God I have this video in my favourites list and right after it another one from the same channel that’s a 4:15 long and just noticed and thought the same thing, indeed much appreciated

[@tehblocky8067]

π

[@JChen7]

Still too long, luckily I set it to 1.5x speed 😉

[@utsabasak5897]

ngl I watched the video because of that and was about to comment

[@abhishekkumarsahu7228]

The worst thing you can do while learning programming is comparing your learning to others, don't do that guys, instead compare your yesterday knowledge to your present. It will bring a lot of positivity and after sometime you will find yourself performing better and writing good quality solutions.

[@the8flo1]

You should do it. But don't think "I'm so bad compared to them" but "What can I do to improve my code"

[@harudot]

Your words are gold

[@marcelmaier6765]

That's exactly what I experienced a while ago. Everyone was using Docker. And I simply couldn't do sh*** with it. Every time I heard about Dockerfiles, Container, Images, Docker compose etc. I got frustrated because when I got my hands on it, I couldn't fit my project into using docker. And I saw all the people diving into docker and after a brief time they understood it. I just felt dumb. I was comparing them with myself. Just when I opened the Docker documentation and started by absolutely 0, read everything from the beginning and made the silly examples... Suddenly everything made sense. And when I realized that isolating my progress to others made me start with a fresh mind and focus on my improvement. In the past, I didn't understand what an image in docker means... Today I know... ;) And I'm proud of it :P And all of u reading this... You should be proud of every single piece of progress you make throughout your journey. Stop watching at others and feel dump... Because you definitely aren't!!!

[@Rin-qj7zt]

comparing your learning and current skill to others is bad, but comparing the quality of your work with others is nessessary for improvement. those who can look at their bad craft, recognize it sucks compared to others, and can still feel okay about that will always have an edge because they can integrate other people's solutions into the workflow. people should have less pride in their work and more pride in their ability to not be dragged down by their mistakes and lack of quality.

[@nowonmetube]

​@@Rin-qj7ztagreed 🙏👍

[@blackaccel]

I'm so scared of making mistakes, having errors in my code and just feeling stupid, that I just can't write code. I'm always looking for tutorials to write perfect flawless code and don't ever have to feel that way again. This exactly what you described... I'm in the wrong approach since 2018... More than five years already and didn't learn anything. Five years of watching tutorials, reading books and sometimes, just sometimes writing code, not even from myself just copy and paste. I still do that at work, just copy paste the solutions. This wrong approach is the reason why I know I'm not a real programmer, I have seen real programmers and I know I'm very far away of being one of those. (Don't even mention impostrome syndrome and that crystal mentality shit). I'm gonna just accept failure and I'm going to feel stupid but I'm gonna take the real approach now, the one you mentioned and I'm gonna became a real programmer now after five years. Thanks you very much.

[@degendev6633]

Never too late to do it the "right way"!

[@JohnStockton7459]

Hahah. Failure, love seeing my competitors struggling

[@tmwquavo7459]

​@@JohnStockton7459what your purpose for doing that

[@luquillasnano]

How is it going by now? Did you feel any improvement over this year?

[@tigana]

How are you now?

[@Recursively_]

Love your videos! Please keep creating.

[@giuliopimenoff]

I totally agree with this. I started my first Discord bot more than 3 years ago and I was always saying "I just need to finish this thing and then it's all perfect" but you can never achieve perfection. I rewritten that bot more than 6 times and I've always improved it by a lot and there are still a ton of things to do and improve. So just don't focus on making things perfect because they'll never be, focus on making them maintainable at least though ^^

[@Turmo180]

I like the point made about programming being a skill/craft. Its definitely something that resonated with me when I read "Be so good they can't ignore you". Great video btw

[@go_better]

Thanks man! So spot on, valuable and humble, down to Earth delivery. Thanks dude for your help.

[@raphaelgohwx]

Love your videos as always bigbox! Keep up the great work ❤

[@ayoo9631]

This channel never disappoints. Short, informative, funny and straight to the point. It's definitely worth the content and my time 🍞👍

[@nathanadams8454]

I love your videos!! I've watched all of them!!❤

[@mttphan261]

I’m currently in the middle of a software engineering coding bootcamp and your videos have really shifted how I approach my learning mentally. Appreciate it so much! Would like a vid or post on your recommendation for beginner projects!

[@Dev_Voyager]

to be completely honest, this channel is the best thing i've found in a while. I just rlly love the editing and the way he says his opinions on programming.

[@amazeinggames]

"Practice makes better" "Perfect is the enemy of good"

[@wongcalvin5691]

As a programming rookie, its a pleasure to watch you videos, great contents!

[@RagingTvFTW]

I really like watching your videos. Keep it up :D

[@manishdas5879]

Literally top notch content, keep it coming bro !!!

[@vigneshmoorthie922]

Thank you so much for this content. It applies to everything not just programming. God bless.

[@chanchanchanchan4638]

You don't even know how much I needed to hear this right now, bro. Thanks for this.

[@detaaditya6237]

Yes, you're certainly correct. If we want to level up our coding skills, we need to keep up the build-reflect-improve loop

[@JChen7]

Forget the REPL, let's get some BRIL up in here

[@RyanGause]

Your content is outstanding.

[@jetpix]

Hey Yo, Thanks Man. You helped me A lot

[@CMB696]

Seeing your old code and rewriting in much simpler way is the best approach i have ever seen

[@vulamnguyen9453]

I refactor my old projects daily. I don't know why. I feel proud of them. When I learn new stuffs such as hook or callback..., I come back to my old projects and improve them.

[@justinoliver4053]

Thanks man I needed to hear this.

[@ventox1337]

What a great feeling it is, to see a new video by bigbox

[@pzingh17]

Good content, thanks Bigbox 🎉

[@jairojared1]

Hey top of my KZbin home page lol. Love your vids

[@Fernando-rw6vz]

Great video, and awesome visuals, for someone who is a self aspired web developer I think it’s a good idea to start off good, and I haven’t even done much with code yet! this video is relatable

[@godnyx117]

An amazing video! I have 1 and 2. Now I need to read some else's code.

[@jonathanjohnson2785]

Much appreciated. Kaizen is very underrated. Thanks and stay strong 💪

[@yurimyanmar9799]

All the videos you made could feed my brain daily .. thanks

[@warrdadlani8494]

I recall learning C++ at uni. They gave me this 1500 page book. I wanted to learn game programming so I found one by Michael Dawson which was 250 pages. By page 150 you knew the concepts and the rest was augmenting the knowledge. That book set me up for the rest of my life as a developer with simplicity in mind and a method to learning coding. Master the fundamentals, the same as basic maths (arithmetic, fractions, algebra). The rest will fall in to place with practise.

[@Bayo106]

hmm, if you're talking and 'Programming, Principles and Practice using C++', that book is actually incredible

[@Tech-Corner2023]

absolutely!! Too large volumes, too much info when you are new or not even new, just medium, just average causes fear, anxiety, paralysis, or just unproductive. Firstly learn the essentials from the best source possible, apply during the process, at the right time comes, you will seek for more resources or more details naturally as you come across problems.. if you care.

[@youssefbejaoui6440]

​@@Bayo106but its 1313 pages long : /

[@abdelilahou2822]

Your vids are just good keep up

[@petarkolev6928]

Priceless video!!!

[@waffensultan7670]

Both insightful & helpful, thanks bigboxSWE.

[@Artofnatiee]

Thank you so much❤

[@Renstein03]

These 3 mins felt like hours of knowledge ❤️‍🔥

[@reginamndii]

Thank you for the vid.

[@ariefwt2220]

Yes Thank You so much!! You saved me ☺️

[@davidwinfield6395]

I always hear the phrase "perfect practice makes perfect", which in theory sounds like a good idea, but in practice could make you scared to even get started at all until you've found the perfect way to do whatever you're trying to do. But for some things, there is no perfect way to do things. Programming, at its core, is an iterative process. You won't know how to optimize your solutions and write cleaner code until you've done exactly like you said in the video, just get started and come back to it later!

[@hidoryy]

As someone who draws a lot, I completely agree with your comparison. My aproach to programming is the same as with art, I try doing stuff that is WAY out of my league, finish the project most times kinda half-assed but at the end I learn a lot of stuff. Also, comparing to others is a double edged sword, some people look at others thinking "They are so much better than me" but you really should be looking as "There is so much that I can learn from them".

[@avoavoavo]

Thank you!!!

[@junyoungson1154]

Hey, I really appreciate these videos as a complete beginner trying to be a software engineer in the future your videos help me feel less anxious about programming because it can get overwhelming. I would really appreciate if you could make a more specific “beginners guide” or “guide for dummies” roadmap of what we should learn/do to gain the knowledge and skills to be a software engineer

[@PozytyffTv]

I actually love language books, but trying to buy only the newest, in hoping that teachers also improve the way of writing books. Love my Rust book, it explained to me the solutions better and deeper than any other course/tutorial/documentation that I read/watched. Wish to have a book like that for every language of my interest, especially C++, which I'm planning to learn next.

[@rauchu5861]

more videos like this please

[@chowtuk]

As a aisan, kai zen is not a philosophy, it just a word which mean improve

[@olegviatkin5674]

idk if its intentional but i like how ur outro is liquidy, it reminds me of fireship

[@user-me9mn7ek5t]

thanks for the advice

[@svenbtb]

Thank you, this is wisdom that most people and teachers don't ever say. You want to keep practicing and making more stuff, and that's the advice that everyone says. But like you mention, if you're writing things inefficiently, incorrectly, etc, but keep doing THAT, then you're not improving. Just like the person who keeps trying to create art but doesn't learn how to draw people with proper anatomy. Compared to art though, I feel like it's harder to learn the "right" ways to do things because everything is so situational. That's part of the fun, to be sure, but it also makes it tricky. But I guess the solution would be "Read lots of (well-written) code"?

[@AymanSussy]

I really loved your videos good sir and I keep watching them for motivation ! Tho I would love to know what BGM you used in this video ?

[@easywhaler2387]

2:00 “if age” does nothing for the function, the returned ‘old’ or ‘young’ isn’t written

[@michaelge4590]

It’s a good day when bigbox uploads

[@deepjyotidebnath4122]

So genuine 💯

[@prateekrajput2646]

I love your videos

[@zithyak8758]

this advise I good for anything one wants to learn, it's literally the direct->drill cycle (do the thing you want to learn figure out what you're bad at then drill it, repeat) improving upon your old work is a good example of copy type drilling.

[@rank1macro]

I completely agree about design patterns etc. When I was starting my real programming journey as an intern a year ago I could not understand shit about design patterns, architectures etc. but I was forced to learn it and do it this way. Probably it was more of a wasted time, because I just felt at that point I just needed more experience overall, building apps to then understand the architectures because it made zero sense to me at that time

[@omarwhite3627]

Hahaha I loved the quick boondocks reference.

[@clray123]

This is actually the wrong mindset if you want to become a professional programmer. The question to ask is not "how can I improve this". The right question to ask is "how much are they going to pay me to improve this".

[@bobbobson6290]

if it works they probably pay nothing, so don't bother

[@TheRythimMan]

Programmer this code uses 40 MB more memory than it needs to. It's trash. User: cool app...

[@vectoralphaAI]

The MOST IMPORTANT thing in programming is embracing failure. Write as much shit code as you can and throgh failure you learn the most. No one is ever perfect.

[@tumpperi3891]

Yep. Needing to "feel ready" before starting is a problem. Just need to fail forward 😅

[@uvinduharshana1169]

sending virtual hugs 🤗

[@siddiqzaryab]

I love your videos. Short and concise and funny. Nothing like the others with 10 and 15 mins of play time and just spewing BS (sorry to say).

[@F_U]

Awesome, thank you very much. The comparison to drawing, as a cartoonist, has really opened my eyes.

[@ripper_op5442]

Thanks

[@Islamicvideox]

Hey @bigboxswe buddy, I have a question, I have seen your video on how to get out of tutorial hell! No doubt every point was amazing... but what if a person is a beginner and comes from a non tech background, should he follow youtube videos to learn about a programming league (for eg: Python or sql)? Where he or she doesn't know the basics, should he or she follow youtube videos, or documentation or books, or blogs ?? It would really help me if you give me some advice

[@Drisith]

I did that when I was making a project. I created a navbar and included it using "require" from PHP. I noticed I was requiring it every time I created a new page, that and I was also requiring bootstrap links. So I changed everything, created just one page that required these two things and included the rest based on the user's behavior

[@Shotzeethegamer]

Having learned a second language to fluency and an instrument to a high level, I feel better hearing programming is more like that process than studying law lol.

[@bigboxSWE]

indeed, i draw more parallels to when i was learning the guitar or writing essays, than when i was studying econ

[@ShrikantKalar]

const isOld = (age: number): string | Error => { if (age) return age > 60 ? "old" : "young"; throw new Error("Invalid input value"); }; const res1 = isOld(61); const res2 = isOld(60); const res3 = isOld(59); // written in TypeScript

[@Dhar01]

PRACTICE MAKES PERMANENT. Thanks!

[@-aso8828]

Good length + valuable info = 1 supasacaripe from me ❤

[@ardnys35]

that's another thing i was thinking about just yesterday. i want to learn a newer programming language and try different approaches, so i chose rust and i went quite far in the book. i could continue learning rust and building stuff with it, but it would probably take a lot of time to get used to, which is not a problem for me. i am ready for it. OR i could learn a simpler language like Go, and try more stuff using it. I think it's fair to assume that my output would be more in volume with Go. On the other hand, it's better to start early with Rust, and I could learn Go anyway at some point because it's supposed to be easier. Perhaps i am thinking too much about it lol Either way, I can't wait to finally be done with my finals and trying some dumb projects in the summer. Thanks for the encouraging video

[@puppergump4117]

2:00 First off, the function only returns one of two values, so it can just be bool. This can make the function be inlined better and just return the result of the expression (age > 60). Secondly, if you need to check if age is nonzero, and you must return a string, the current code is redundant. If you do nothing outside the if(age) control path, the if statement should not exist. Also what's with the random semicolons?

[@GamingKing-jo9py]

2:36 function winner(player1, player1) {return ['Player 1 won' ,'Tie' ,`Player 2 won` ][(player1 - player2) % 3] }

[@GamingKing-jo9py]

i totally didn't mess up my quotes

[@alataqtnt5020]

Its what I did, 3 years ago until now (:

[@chrisalexthomas]

Failure without analysing why you failed is useless. Failure with ego is failure. Failure without ego is improvement.

[@kriena4190]

Oh nice that's exactly what I've doing been doing for the past week making a math app. Taught me real nice lessons on like what i can and can't do, what's making it immediately crash, how to send variables to different classes, and why can't i sleep? Whoops that was a different kind of problem

[@kriena4190]

Stumbling your way through is feeling pretty painful though since i only know the most basic of the basic shit

[@nagasaipurvaz4251]

my friend made a simple todo app in the first year of collage then he just added more features and gimmicks to todo app that it he learned so much in three years that me who made about many projects and countless half finished projects have never will learn he just reflected on his code and made it fast by using the ds he used inked list for goals lists and day list and so many ideas like he even added the chat gpt into it like if we are too lazy to add previous tasks it just add the tasks to the lists and it even f**king have Bluetooth connection for turning off the lights when it is studying time and turning off fan to awake him up at the morning coded in react native it's like i wasted so much by just making so many projects I could have taken just two or three projects and added good features to it

[@umamkhan8109]

hey, could you share the project please?

[@dannyv339]

I wish I could give this video another like

[@preethiv9783]

The programming I have done so far have been a result of nessescity. I needed to automate something because doing it by hand took a long long time. I only get my motivation from these types of problems where there is a nessecity, but in my life currently there is no nessessity. I cant find the project needed to motivate me to write a lot fo code. Can you suggest something I could do, like a list of projects or something. As someone who is a 100% self learner there are so many resources and no sense of direction. Im currently looking for a sense of direction in what feels like literally an ocean. Any resources would be helpful.

[@erikmagnusson2274]

good shit son!

[@shantanukulkarni8883]

interesting...

[@AdrianMark]

I am a natural perfectionist, and I don't think that's a bad thing after years of being me and getting things wrong lol it means that more often than not, I know what kind of outcome would be satisfying, but, now with experience, I've embraced iteration. In fact, I'm so happy I found the concept of iteration. I would have been really unhappy in life without it. 😅

[@BlumChoi]

I want to get your thought on this: I am a junior right mow and often I feel like the code I write is ass and have decided to study design pattern because I can seem to learn them just by continuing to write more code. I still code, I just study on the side.

[@princekesarwani5110]

I wish you made this video when I got admitted in computer science

[@unsignedvoid4634]

Agree. I learned the most by "writting shitty code" and refactoring other ppl code

[@ok-cx4qd]

hi bigboxSWE, may i know how long it took you before u felt a lil more confident in ur coding (from when u had absolutely zero exp)

[@SouthGuy-ty3cl]

after spending a whole day thinking about the perfect way to structure an object, I could see that being a problem xD

[@user-re8lt2gy3g]

3min of pure wisdom

[@shadon_official2510]

you are GOATED

[@OfoeNelson]

But how do you build fullstack apps without reading and understanding async js for example

[@DaBabyLetsGo]

Exactly, a good way of thinking is always challenging yourself, want to make a game? Do it! Through trial and error you'll learn. This works with any concept in your mind. Make chess, make an AI, make whatever you desire, but remember, you'll very likely finish your goal. Even if it might be a little bit messy & complicated. You now know what to do better when coding your next project.

[@lucasmoraes1790]

i love you big box

[@automateddude]

True... Also we go through imposter syndrome, burn out etc..

[@FzsHotDogInDonut]

every iteration makes you better and better. do it 1999 times if needed.

[@greyngreyer5]

What I have trouble grasping is how code translates into a program. To give a simple example, I want to make a "game" where I move a red square inside four square spaces of a bigger square. What handles the visual aspect of code?

[@The_Questionaut]

I want to learn C++ and Python, Which should i learn first and what are some reliable FREE resources, I want to begin my coding arc

[@PagesofWisdom313]

Bigbox is a legend

[@user-th2cp8uh8r]

I broke my 10 day streak consistent practicing due to attending the mourning of my deceased relative and now I'm very conscious if it will affect my performance or not? Maybe I'm overthinking it but I only skipped 1 day, will it break the rule of being consistent?

[@m23605]

2:00 is_old_aged can return undefined and not just string?

[@AwestruckEarl]

when do you feel good enough to start applying for jobs?

[@manuelreyes5113]

Do you have any social media page?Man, I feel so related with what you say. Greetings, from Dominican Republic.

[@reddysekhar3765]

whats the sound track at 0:20 ??