Hi Simón, very nice article and I completely agree with you. Nowadays no don't need to have a career to get a programmer job and become a great developer, all you need it is thirst of learn every day. In my case I tried to study by myself when I was 14 years old around year 2000. I bought a Pascal and C++ (1000 pages bible) and I tried, without internet and anything and I didn't even knew what was a compiler and stuff and it was very hard time, why? Because we had no internet, and the internet we had later was not sown with so much great tutorials and answers. Some years after that I finished a college where I had only one subject of programming, so I could learn some HTML and CSS. Then I went to high college and learned some C and VisualBasic which helped me to understand some stuff, but everything else around front-end web development I had to learn from internet and work colleagues. Conclusion 8h a day during 4 years with internet + mentor, you can learn much more :)
I'm happy to hear that, a 1000 pages book of C++ is for sure a big first step! I'm happy you managed to keep trying and didn't quit.
I felt the same as you when I was at college, I felt I knew nothing, like Jhon Snow. I was very frustrated and thought that I didn't have the knowledge needed to do anything in a company, I even started working before finishing college to calm that feeling.
If I could tell something to my college me, I would tell him that he would learn everything he needs to know at work and that he should focus on learning. Just working is easy, finish that feature or fix that bug it's the easy path, but learning from everything you do, that's the key, getting 1% better each day, that whats separates seniors from juniors.
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Hi Simón, very nice article and I completely agree with you. Nowadays no don't need to have a career to get a programmer job and become a great developer, all you need it is thirst of learn every day. In my case I tried to study by myself when I was 14 years old around year 2000. I bought a Pascal and C++ (1000 pages bible) and I tried, without internet and anything and I didn't even knew what was a compiler and stuff and it was very hard time, why? Because we had no internet, and the internet we had later was not sown with so much great tutorials and answers. Some years after that I finished a college where I had only one subject of programming, so I could learn some HTML and CSS. Then I went to high college and learned some C and VisualBasic which helped me to understand some stuff, but everything else around front-end web development I had to learn from internet and work colleagues. Conclusion 8h a day during 4 years with internet + mentor, you can learn much more :)
I'm happy to hear that, a 1000 pages book of C++ is for sure a big first step! I'm happy you managed to keep trying and didn't quit.
I felt the same as you when I was at college, I felt I knew nothing, like Jhon Snow. I was very frustrated and thought that I didn't have the knowledge needed to do anything in a company, I even started working before finishing college to calm that feeling.
If I could tell something to my college me, I would tell him that he would learn everything he needs to know at work and that he should focus on learning. Just working is easy, finish that feature or fix that bug it's the easy path, but learning from everything you do, that's the key, getting 1% better each day, that whats separates seniors from juniors.