From College Golf to Coding Web Apps (My Self Taught Dev Story)

[@zachgoll]

Let's hear your own coding stories below!

[@pressrepeat2000]

You’re doing great work. Super useful for those of us lucky to find it!

[@zachgoll]

Thank you! I really appreciate the comment :)

[@carusosiza154]

Great video Zach. I came across your content through your writing / vids on Git - they were really helpful. Your content is always clear and well articulated.

[@florencemensah6288]

This is inspiring; I like to stick here to complete your JavaScript tutorials. Thank you for the motivation, Zack.

[@asdasdasdasdasdasd3485]

Great video, would love to see more of videos like this one!!! And great job for pushing through!!!

[@zachgoll]

Funny enough, I’ll be making a lot more of these types of videos soon! Slight rebrand coming soon :)

[@asdasdasdasdasdasd3485]

@@zachgoll Nice, can't wait to see them!!!

[@bijayalaxmiswainswain7268]

Hey Zach, Great story. I loved your authentication and authorisation series. In depth and well-articulated. Request you to do a series on Firebase. There is not much learning material available out there. I wish you all the success in your finance and programming journey. Will look forward to your videos.

[@zachgoll]

I will put Firebase on the list!

[@GolfInsider]

Great video Zach. 👍

[@bitbandit1678]

Thank you for your article about functional vs procedural programming.

[@psiryan]

I watched your video explanation about software architectures and thought your approach was unique to the plethora of like videos which try to cover the same topic. This video sounds not only like an update, but also somewhat of a closing statement from you. I hope you consider publishing other videos as you continue to learn.

[@zachgoll]

No plans on stopping anytime soon! Hope to have many more videos in the future :)

[@alro7779]

3:15 What the f*ck was that sound? It scared the crap out of me, bro! I thought it was a damn rat in my room!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@zachgoll]

I think that was a child screaming in the park 🤣

[@ben-cb5er]

Thank you for sharing your experience bro. If you were to start from scratch ( say with knowing javascript ) this year would you still go for angular or pick react? Would love to know your thoughts on that

[@zachgoll]

First off, you can’t go wrong with either of them, so I wouldn’t worry about that. I’m obviously biased, but I like Angular because of how opinionated of a framework it is. While you have a ton of freedom to create whatever you want still, Angular has a great architecture and documentation around how to follow that architecture which has been extremely helpful to me as a self taught developer. React is great because the developer makes a lot of those architecture choices, but for someone like me who didn’t take college classes on software design patterns and who didn’t start coding in an OOP language like C++ or Java, I really like how Angular makes a lot of design decisions for me.

[@JohnDoe-pf7nh]

Screw both. Vue makes everything simpler and faster. It has the best documentation. Future is vue.

[@JaredFL]

Great video - Unlucky that you picked Angular instead of React. Never too late tho

[@zachgoll]

I don’t see it that way. Angular taught me a lot of great patterns/tech that I lean on every day. Rxjs, dependency injection, TypeScript, etc. I do prefer React and primarily build with it nowadays, but have zero “regret” for how I started.

[@esnaiderrincon3709]

Hello Zach, I have seen several of your videos and I was happy to find your channel, I am starting in this Web development, but I have a question that worries me, can I get a job without having a university degree? I hope you continue with these great videos. PS: Excuse me, my English is not my native language.

[@zachgoll]

It will definitely be more difficult, but if you compare software engineering to most other industries, there are a lot of opportunities for non-credentialed people to get jobs. I've seen many people who have gotten jobs without degrees here! And even if that is not the path, these are incredibly valuable and transferable skills that you can apply in any job.

[@iwanvongola5310]

Teach us MEAN stack

[@zachgoll]

Noted. Won't be able to create that very quickly, but will keep it on the video idea list. That said, I actually prefer working with NestJS (utilizes Express), Angular, MySQL (TypeORM) and Node. I previously used the MEAN stack but found this new stack a bit more versatile. Hoping to do something on it at some point.