My journey to becoming a better Software Engineer

[Secure Da Bag]

November 20th, 2019

• Worked my way through this book
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• Messed around with different design patterns, fonts and styles

I think I've gone that book as well. It was years and years ago though.

Is that book any good? Relevant in 2019/2020?

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Is that book any good? Relevant in 2019/2020?

Found my PDF. It's frankly a beautifully laid out book with good knowledge to get you up to speed on the basics of HTML and CSS, which haven't changed since the book was published. It'll give you some foundation, but you probably won't set the world ablaze after going through it.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Found my PDF. It's frankly a beautifully laid out book with good knowledge to get you up to speed on the basics of HTML and CSS, which haven't changed since the book was published. It'll give you some foundation, but you probably won't set the world ablaze after going through it.

Might as well drop this link then - Semantic HTML Tutorial | HTML & CSS Is Hard

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Just followed you on LinkedIn king.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Might as well drop this link then - Semantic HTML Tutorial | HTML & CSS Is Hard

Yeah that looks like a good follow up after you understand HTML.

 

[Swirv]

Functional consulting in my company’s context is moreso understanding our clients business and translating their business requirements to a spec. My company does natural gas scheduling for interstate pipelines, so there are lot of regulations and business logic to capture.

The backend stuff was mildly enjoyable. I miss it tbh. That was my first IT gig, so I didn’t have much of a reference . We pretty much had a boot camp for orientation in first 4 weeks where we went over sql, c# and crystal reports. It was dope experience but I eventually got put in their GIS software group, and that shyt was super boring and the software was clunky.

Was your undergrad in CS?

Ah cool, naw my undergrad was in psychology and criminal justice. The school that recruited me for basketball didnt have a cs program back then and I jfell into two majors foolishly. It took me over 10+ years after finishing college to become an engineer

dope journeys

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

Just followed you on LinkedIn king.

Respect bro..thanks

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

Found my PDF. It's frankly a beautifully laid out book with good knowledge to get you up to speed on the basics of HTML and CSS, which haven't changed since the book was published. It'll give you some foundation, but you probably won't set the world ablaze after going through it.

Yeah thos is what I'm gathering as well lol..but since frontend development is my weakness the book is a great help to me lol

Are you a frontend dev?

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

November 25th, 2019

• Had a hackathon over the weekend which was pretty much a capture the flag tournament (cyber security). I was in a team of 3 and we came in 6th place out of 15 teams
• Pretty burnt out today from the hackathon and work so I took a break and will continue tomorrow

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Yeah thos is what I'm gathering as well lol..but since frontend development is my weakness the book is a great help to me lol

Are you a frontend dev?

Nope, all back end. I dabbled in Angular after I graduated but that's as far as I went.

 

[SheWantTheD]

I'm in the same boat as you.

I gotta admit that my coding sucks ASS!

I'm on the Java route though, I don't know I may switch to Python as people say it's easier and more fun (reads more like English).

But fam.. how did you have several software engineering jobs and you are starting at the beginning?! Data structures such as linked lists

What are you doing at your job lmao.

 

[SheWantTheD]

@PikaDaDon
Have you ever thought about applying for something like this. There is an IBM office down here and it's kind of my back up plan to get experience if I can't find a job after I graduate.
Software Engineer Apprentice Job in NEW YORK, NY | IBM

When do you graduate? fukk all that shyt.

You want to HAVE experience before you graduate.

Go to your professor's, deans, advisors etc to help you out.

I wish I did this shyt and had someone alley oop a job in my hand.

Go to career fairs and make sure you know your stuff and can beat the coding interview (look this up).

Went to a career fair and this guy asked me what Polymorphism was. I know what it is but at the time I forgot as I hadn't taken OOP in a minute!

 

[SheWantTheD]

Overcomplicated Frontend
I'm still trying to familiarize myself with modern web development. Back in the day all you had to learn was html/css/javascript and php to talk to a database. The LAMP stack (linux, apache, mysql, php) was the prominent tech stack for backend work. Now you have the emergence of frontend libraries that overcomplicate things, worst of all someone decided to use javascript for the backend.

Docker
You also have the emergence of containerization which is something I don't particularly understand. From my understanding docker is like a virtual machine but with many of the OS files stripped away and all that remains are the dependencies to get your app to run?

Amazon AWS
Was watching some videos on aws the other day


If I'm ever in need for cloud-based service I'd probably use something simpler like heroku or firebase. AWS's interface looks complicated. Looks like something suited for big businesses



Perhaps, but not for large companies. The girl working at HR who has to shift through hundreds of applications doesn't have the time to look through your github account. Side projects may help when applying for small startups.

AWS will get you interviews though, which I've heard personally from recruiters.

You have to pay to use that shyt though.

 

[SheWantTheD]

How many days a week are you putting in work?

And I would take your address off your resume on linkedin.

 

[SheWantTheD]

1) I think you got hired because you have college degrees. For someone such as myself who is a dropout I'll have to work 10x as hard to get to where you're at. That piece of paper holds a great deal of value for some hiring companies. I personally knew a guy in Illinois who got hired for a frontend role yet.....he doesn't know any javascript (he was learning it). Only had an unrelated degree in security.

2) If I were making 'well above 6 figures' I wouldn't even be posting in thecoli. I'd be getting a rub down by two busty Asian chicks in a hotel room in Atlantic City.

3) I see the term 'DevOps' gets used frequently but personally I have no idea what that is. I've never heard a simple explanation for it.

Plenty of brehs with degrees and no experience that can't find work.

And also OP doesn't come from a well-known accredited institution either.