A look in to the life
The Beginning
My journey began in August 2015. I was working as a law enforcement officer in a small city outside...
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Incredibly inspiring article Bryce. I couldn't agree more on the point about “struggle your way to understanding”, and the joy of solving a complex problem with code. I think coding is fundamentally hard, and there are plenty of times to get frustrated, but you have to have the confidence to believe that they will pass and you become a better developer afterwards. All the best with your career, and hope you enjoy the progress too!
Thank you so much Nick! I'm really glad that you enjoyed it. I completely agree with what what you said, and hope that point came across well in my article! Best of luck on your journey also!
This one is as inspiring and motivating as it can get, especially for a person who is starting, about to start or has recently started with software development.
I really enjoyed reading this post, you portrayed the experience exactly as most of us would have been through at the start.
I always imagine how it would be for a non-developer to get started with programming. It is because you do not only have to learn the language, you also have to learn programming concepts at the same time. The language you pick at the start can tremendously shape your perspective towards programming, at least for a few early years. I enjoy getting people to learn programming and feel how fun and satisfying it is to communicate with a computer to make it do something smart and get a feel of how it is to be on the other side.
Again, a good one.
Welcome to software development!
Thanks so much Mohammed. I really appreciate the praise, and I'm glad that so many people that have more experience that I, in the industry, do agree with what I've written. I truly enjoy helping those struggling their way through the beginning stages of learning to code, and wanted to put this out there to try to help at least one or two of them! It's my desire to be able to give back to new developers later in my career, and this is how I decided I would start. (:
About helping new developers, I think we can definitely do a few things together. Take for instance this repository I created a while back: getting-started-with-programming. The idea was to keep it very basic and not include a lot of details so that it is easy for people with very little to no programming experience to have a glance at what programming actually feels like and that too in a fun way. I have only been able to add instructions for web development but would love to add more. Since you've been through it relatively recently, your contributions are highly welcomed :)
I will definitely check it out Mohammed! I'm tied up right now with some projects, but once I get caught up I'll check in to it! Kudos to you though for taking the time to make a resource for people interested in development!
Great read, I'm in the middle of the "upswing of awesome" myself.
Quick question; In the list of resources, should "CodeAcademy" actually be "Codecademy" without the 'A'?
If not, I've used Codecademy quite a bit (codecademy.com) and highly recommend it.
It should be! Good catch, and thanks for letting me know about it!
Great read, Bryce. Your experience with learning mirrors my own quite a bit.
Time and again I have seen that the only way I can learn is by beating my head against a problem over and over until it sinks in.
I think the most valuable trait we can nurture as developers is tenacity.
Sounds like you've got it in spades!
Please continue to share what you learn. I'll be following!
Thanks for taking the time to leave this comment Patrick. I’m glad to see that people are enjoying reading what I’ve been through, and as you said what is typical for most developers to go through. I will definitely keep sharing!
Grats Bruce! I'm working as Helpdesk Manager in corporate, out of work i creating wordpress pages, learning english, django and javascript. My dream is working as a developer, be responsible for smoething new. I'm on the beginning. Wish my luck ;)
Congratulations Nowak! That's very exciting! Stick with it, you can do it. If you ever need help, the community is here to provide support!
Incredibly cool to hear about your journey into tech, hope you keep moving along and progressing!
Thanks so much Aaroh. Definitely moving up one step at a time! I'd like to start giving back to the community more which is where the idea for writing articles came from! I just hope they are able to reach the people who need to hear it!
Thank you so much for this article. It's worth to read for me as a newbie. Thanks again.