11-02-2020, 12:24 AM
(11-01-2020, 06:26 PM)Ampersnd Wrote:(11-01-2020, 04:03 PM)lano1106 Wrote: A book alone is maybe not the best way to learn programming. My take on the question is that experience is the essential ingredient for mastery.
A bootcamp is one way to get that experience and feedback from more experienced people but it isn't the only one.
you can also acquire good experience from a job in the field but only when you are beginning. In the span of 2,3 years, I feel like a talented individual will have gone around the park pretty fast.
imho, possibly the best place to learn is to implicate yourself into an open-source project for a software that you really enjoy using. Reading a lot of code from very talented people is the greatest way to learn programming.
That makes sense. Do you have experience in the field? No offence to anyone in the forums, but I prefer to place more weight from someone "in the field," ya'know'wh'I'mean?
he he... You must not have never opened one of my journal since the start of the year... because I am overly talking about my software dev projects in them
I'm ok... I have something like 15 years of professional experience... Because of my age, when I was at the engineering school, software engineer wasn't yet offered. I had to fall on electrical program which was the closest that I could pick... It was a passion and whenever I had a small programming assignment, I was always going all in and over deliver the assignment with solutions that was several orders of magnitude more complex than what anyone else was doing.
So that means that I never had a formal software formation and official professional credentials yet my realizations did attract Google and FB attention. FB is really snob. The interviewer kept saying that they are really only looking mostly for Doctors... (IOW, he was making me lose my time)... Google did made me fly 2 times for on-site interviews (Once at Mountain View and the other time at their MIT campus)
Since the 2000 Internet crash, working conditions have greatly deteriorated in the industry (or I went to an industry very boring. You can do SW in any industry...). It wasn't fun anymore... The office did burn out my passion and I had to do something else. Not because I didn't like programming anymore. The job market conditions did make me hate it.
As a hobby, it is a real blast. Now, I feel like I have given myself the freedom to develop software on my terms without the BS that industry is putting on its worker... If you end up working in that field. Mark my words Agile/SCRUM methodology isn't fun at all with its dozens of never ending meetings every week... That is what made me quit...
