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What are the most important things I need to know as new coder?(I want to get a job in the field one day)
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How to get the foot in the door.
It's always been the case, and nowadays even more, that a CS degree is irrelevant for employers. Get an interview, show you're interested in solving problems for the company and grow on the job.
Creating personal projects - not todo apps - from scratch with proper back, front it's CI/CD will be very helpful for interviews to get a job. Best of luck
Be curious about new things but beware of hype.
Don’t just follow tutorials—build real things! Start small (a calculator, to-do app, weather app) and work your way up
Data-structures, control flow and language syntax :)
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Depends on the type of coder. For a full stack or backend engineer. Firstly you want to learn these patterns and concepts:
Data types and data structures:
Basic understanding of HTTP, TCP, UDP and the OSI networking model.
Next, pick a Language, either C#, Java, Python, TypeScript, Golang, PHP, Ruby or any of the modern languages.
Next, build stuff, start small with console applications, calculators etc... get into the art of constructing a program from scratch.
During this process you should think about data types, and the flow of data, how it's transformed and manipulated throughout your program. Learn to debug properly and solve problems of increasing complexity.
Next, you want to learn SQL and basic querying.
Next, pickup a framework like Django or Laravel or Asp.net etc...
Now learn MVC and how to connect a request to a route, controller, pull data from the DB and render a template.
From there expand step-by-step building something more and more complex as your knowledge grows.
While you doing all of this, push your code to Github and knock on as many doors as you can.
Hope this helps.
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Whatever you do, don't believe that a portfolio website amounts to anything. It doesn't. Do it if you want, but consider it practice.
What's more valuable is your GitHub profile. Contribute to open source, create your own repositories, etc. This is far better than having a portfolio.
Enthusiasm goes a long way!
Agreed!
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