It's easy to get lost in proggraming

Felipe B.Hummel (Calanguin) — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:32:34 +0000

Im a newbie at programming and , how have you managed to learn, build, choose and have a job in this area?
I sought in the lands of javascript, the beginning of this monolithic thing called programming, i was lost between e.s and c.s(c.s won),and through my way here in brazil, i learned that we're stuck in the past ,and its not only enterprises , the small companies too(only php and java 4 b.c,and when you find a job that has a new language its for 5 year experienced senior's), and i said well i'll get a book that will have exercises and do freecodecamp then i'll choose a path accordingly to what i like,but i remembered well I've gotta work and thought well ,maybe work for a foreigner companie?? Moving on...

The path is lead me to get stuck a lot in eloquent javascript(stuck triyng to use reduce while desconstructuring an array of objects{hard for me})and freecodecamp its cool, but pretty easy,im following that path,and i wanted to learn go(5000 jobs in brazil) or rust(200 jobs) but i changed my mind at least for my first language.

I made a small mistake that took me to long to learn,i never used linux ,so what i did? Yes you got it, Arch btw,it took me a month to learn how to install properly and to learn why my screen turned black every i got to the greeter or entered in sleep/hibernate mode(igpu and egpu/amd 5800h nvidia 3060), hehhehe but it was good ,i was afraid of using the cli,and thought i could erase my bios while formstting my ssd,even thought i remembered vaguely that it stay in the MB,now i want neovim and to learn bash script.

I tried a enterview fora internship but i refused because i would just deliver paper and set meetings(dont judgge me)

But how have you chosen the language,i think i still look at the harder languages with awe or something like this ,it still feels better to defined types(hate null = object),and to have less magic , it seem more easy to define and nao having to much abstraction.

Finally learned wine and proton(the easy part heheh winetricks).

And that's how its been going,i ended up loving arch and hating it at the same time, and javascript its not as easy as some say,ill learn php(the companie that i want to work has 80% of it works in PHP)then ill try to learn go ut seems easier to find a job and to learn,
Improve my linux skills,all of that parallel to my college(remote).

That's all folks ,first time writing in here and i thought it was a good idea to share my thougts with you.
Not all who wander are lost,i think.

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It's easy to get lost in proggraming