The BEST Way To Become A Software Engineer

all my friends who are doing internships tell me to watch tutorials to learn the swift language, i on the other hand only use books and chatgpt , becuase you can learn alot from those two than watching any tutorials, also i told my friends the exact same thing about tutorials leaving mostly 70 - 80 percent of the knowledge you can gain from books and chatgpt, also another thing i would like to add is that watching tutorials for a long time, you will start to look at it as entertainment instead of learning.

i don't care i am going to master C and only then move on 😿 to cpp or rust (tho i am doing go too hehe) (electronics major)

take shortcuts, get cut short...

Perfect sponsored content imo. Just reading articles like you always do, so being sponsored to do articles on a particular site is completely fine when the quality of the articles are up there to begin with.

14628816388282 cool points for the Mary quote.

here are my takes from this video: find your interest (its linux, vim, android, and java) learn one language at the core leave (got a core java book, from today i will read it), and love what you do. i guess

Upper middle class?? 😂😂😂😂 On what planet?

Shortcuts lead to long delays - outstanding, premium thought.
It hits the target.Brilliant!
In technology shortcut sometime is a cause of short circuit.
Jumping over the doc details can lead to serious issues in emergency situation.
I enjoy Tolkien's books very much. Cheers!

I use chatGPT and Phind. But there is a specific prompt you need to give it so as to not compromise your learning. You need to specifically tell it not to give you a snippet, full answer, or an example of it's use. Just give you the element or attribute that is related to what you want.

For example;

Bad prompt:
How can I color this box red?
<Code snippet>

This will have it give you the full prompt you need to copy and paste in there. But what do you learn? Nada.

Good prompt:
What attribute can be used to color a box red in HTML? Do not provide a snippet or example.

It'll spit out a list of possible solutions to this problem, and you need to figure out which one is suitable, and how to use it.

reminds me of an old memory.. when I was a kid learning to skateboard I really reaaaaally wanted to grow up to be a pro. beyond obsessed. an older skater told me once while I was learning "don't learn this trick to become pro.. learn this trick because it's fun.. pros are addicted to the fun of learning tricks.. that's all you need." oddly some of the best advice I've had. don't suck the fun out of what you do. being pro won't even be worth it lol.

Did you write this article yourself there Prime? 😏

I like thid 😊

Wait next js is a fs libary kekw

I reckon the whole hobby angle is nonsense. Same with learning on your own time and money. You will get good by doing your job. And you'll get good at doing the thing that brings you money by doing your job. There's no rush to get better faster.

yeah i wanna become an employee!

Does anyone have an honest answer as to how much more money one can make doing things ‘the slow way’ in the long run?

‘Not everything is about money’ is not an honest answer btw

I love that you quoted "Tolkien"!!!

Thank you for this video, I'm currently a student at 42, and I'm seeing too many people getting their way thtough with git copy. I'm glad that I'm taking the slow path to learn how to code, how to build something !

Ive found that i learn the best when im solving my own problems

Most practical advice, kudos prim 🎉

Are you Dr Disrespect in disguise 🥸?

Lane is 100% right. His site is great too. I did the trial and am seriously thinking about subscribing. It's legit a fun way to learn coding.

I am new to development. Took a js bootcamp. In the middle of it life threw me a curveball and I got canned from a stupid sales job because the manager had it out for me… idk how I completed the bootcamp but I did and after that I was forced to take the a+ by my field it job… then they canned me lol.. seems tragic but every hurdle life throws at me I have kept faith in god, I have a work from home job now(not dev) but I am finally able to spend more time developing my apps… it’s amazing to learn new things and branch out. A+ may seem stupid but you can understand so much more about software when you keep it interesting and never let life get the best of you. No matter how many times you get canned 😂

Spring io and React

I use chatgpt, but only to ask about the methods and quirks of the language itself. I still bang my head against the logic wall myself all the way through. And frankly, that's how I LOVE doing the learning.

I have to say AI has been a blessing for someone like me, who has no attention span for tutorials and courses, and learns hands on.

Number one take away, after the first few months do not use tutorials anymore! Tutorials are good for reference but ironically not for learning...

so asking for help apparently got my comment deleted. thanks :(.
No joke, is this video for absolute beginners?

don't get a tutorial, become the tutorial!

The best way?

Be an 11 year old. A neckbeard busts down your door and says "You're an SE, Harry."

Haha, free subscription. Id prefer my friend to work at Uber or booking then 😂

"Short cuts lead to long delays" love that. I like saying "the only way out is through; you cannot go around".

I'm baller at chat got 😂 I'm decent at programming too but I love that chat got allows me to learn and adapt faster

Hot take: People want to go fast because the industry romanticizes the demonstration of "quick learner". It's a case where the metric of who's a good hire turns into the goal or heavily affects the goal itself.

Yes. to all of this, yes

I totally agree. Don't just fix the bug, fix the root-cause. Just to add to that, yes, sometimes you need to take shortcut and just fix the bug. But in that case I would say add tech-debt story to fix it later 🙂

hahaahahahaahahaahhahaaha, ex-java dev slamming recover() hahaahahahaa that's the funniest shit I have ever seen on the internet

that's ok tho, we welcome all ex-java devs, we will consume them and train them to be better

I spat my coffee out laughing when you attempted to say, "clusterf*ck asterisk". Pure comedic gold.

I don't really like tutorial, give me the documentation and give it to me raw!!

im from germany and its a little bit hard to follow but mannn - i love your tech talk. You have something from the "Great Teacher Onizuka" style in Software Engineering

As a frontend/backend developer.. I’ve learned to disassemble other people’s code and have a good instinct to know when someone else’s answer to a problem is garbage and only makes things worse.

I’ll do tutorials only to see or understand a part of it.. then I go build something different, if similar, try to build it in a unique way, change the ui, do it in another language .. or try to build a MVC in js, without a framework.

My Php framework use file system for routing😂

Back then, when we started doing Java decades ago, the Java API documentation is perpetually opened in the browser. Nowadays, the new devs, it's StackOverflow, and now Chat Gippty. 🤣

When I worked for Tesla people wanted discounts on cars

Honestly, what if there are no problems you are interested in/have a passion for?
Ever since I left college, I've found to be in that spot.

Tutorial hell is the bane of my existence, but just having a goal/project that you want to do and going at it is also a terrible experience. You end up taking a chaotic path towards the goal, quite possibly learning very bad habits or patters in the way.

Spoon fed instructions are not very useful, but you need some sort of mentoring to not only learn properly, but learn efficiently.

Holy shit this one was good!!! 💯👊

I agree with the tutorial and different steps bit.
I'm currently learning JS, and I wanted to build a TO-DO app, so I ran into a problem of how to duplicate a div (cus it came with some other styling) such that when the to-do is created, it duplicates that div then replaces the textContent with the input value. I remember watching a tutorial a while back on to-do apps, but I couldnt remember how they did that bit. So I went googling on duplicating a div then I learnt about the .cloneNode(true) feature, which was something I never even knew existed lol. but It was fun to learn and when I went back to the tutorial after I finished building the stuff, the guy used a different approach, and i'm like, okay thats cool lol

As someone who has been through tutorial hell many times, this is so 100% true. Learn the fundamentals, it's majorly important.