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facing depression as a beginner in software development

codeuiandy on November 20, 2019

This is my first post here. I decided to share some of the knowledge I earned through making every mistake you can possibly make as a beginner in s...
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Ben Lovy • Edited

Well, these tips are all spot on. Welcome!

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codeuiandy

thanks, bro I wish I know some of these when I started my career as a developer

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Phil Tietjen

These are some great points that I also try to recommend to anyone starting out!

I cannot stress #2 more though. I struggled with that one personally when I started, I had this strange expectation on myself that if I wrote down notes and watched something I should just know it. What instead worked for me was not taking notes and repetition of working with the language or framework I was learning with some prior research into the documentation.

If I could add to #2 in anyway, it would be to go through the documentation before scouring courses or YouTube tutorials. Find out what, how, and why you're using it and maybe check out the API to get a grasp on what kind of patterns and syntax to expect.

Great first post and welcome to DEV! :D

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codeuiandy

Am happy I was able to put those together, I will be making a youtube channel soon and I need support from the community

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Israel Alagbe

Nice post. But concerning the tutorial video stuff, I usually find it easier to learn from multiple videos when I get stuck, because different tutors explain things differently.

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codeuiandy

that's my point it okay learning with different videos when you get stuck, but thinking you can start a career, beat the competition out there by just using youtube videos as a beginner is not a very good step to follow.

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Tomaz, Osvaldo Neto

Hello Dev friend, when I'm learning some new stuff, I first buy 2 or 3 courses in Udemy , analyze them to put in better order to study, because making three ways, I can strong the basis, and learn different things of different instructors, and get different exercises too, and some cases like was with javascript I went to Wesbos website and did the 30 days javascript :) ... With .NET Core I went to MS websites too :) for me always has worked ...

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Sahansi

Great post. As someone going through the same challenges, I completely agree with you tips.

Hmmm, now what was number 2 again...

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codeuiandy

nice

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catonlin

Can you not use gigantic font for your entire post please?

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codeuiandy

resolved

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catonlin

Thank you.

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codeuiandy

you're welcome

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Abydin

good stuff bro

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m3talsmith

Those were definitely good points. One of the key factors to learning is the ability to gain perspective. If this post is any judge of yours, I'd say your well on your way to your career.

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codeuiandy

Yeah those are my point of view based on my personal experience.

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John Laine

Thanks for the great advice!

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codeuiandy

Uwc john