Great story and great storytelling. Insightful.

Not really relevant in Sweden where u get money for studying. It doesn't cost anything and you get study allowance to be able to pay rent and food. A smaller part, like $400/month, u actually GET and you the rest, approx. $1200, is a loan with very low interest. Those random courses you mentioned wouldn't be part of CS-programs. Usually a program is very well thought through with things building on top of each other. However, I agree that CS is something that can be self-taught very well and you can focus on exactly what u wanna learn. I personally find it much easier with motivation when I study something simply 'cause I want to, rather than have to. Ofc, u choose the Uni-program, but u can still feel like u "have to" study those courses, despite choosing the program.

I'm going to disagree on the "non-traditional" description. I've been in this game for nearly 30 years. Back then the self-taught was pretty much the only path. But the points here are valid... for any dev. If anything the fresh CS grads come with barely any useful process knowledge. Which is surprising. As a mechanical engineer I'm not expecting other engineers to have all the knowledge but know how to get there what to check and how to go about things with basic knowledge you can count on. Early on everyone is sensitive to criticism. It started to change recently. But there's a right way and the wrong way to provide feedback.

I imagine that quite a few tech companies are going to go under due to AI. Think of all the services & products aimed at the human developer behind the screen. Once you are gone, they are gone. Why buy speed tree when AI can generate a program to do the exact same thing, why use unity when AI can make you your own Unity like game engine. I mean really think what full blown scary AI could do. Doctors, Lawyers ect GONE! Because AI does it better and faster. It's kind of like trucking, Once AI takes over many many companies are going out of business because a self driving machine changes the name of the game from getting good drivers to who can buy the most trucks. Cost of shipping will drop like a lead weight as many big customers who use trucking services just end up buying their own trucks.

I am 7 minutes into your video and you remind me a lot of myself. I am 26, 3 kids and a family to support and I want to give my kids the life they deserve. I have a job in networking but am unhappy and don't feel there is any room for improvement. I tried studying for the CCNA but it was so boring and I was just uninterested. Now, since I found out about coding I have been super interested. I was learning HTML then stopped bc I thought my current company was good but have been here for 2 years and is a total waste of time. I am going to pick up coding again and then kick this job, they will be hurting when they lose me but it's their loss. I have no college degree or certs to prove I know anything to another company. Thank you for telling us about your life, it makes you very relatable and personable and knowing there are people out there just like me motivates me to get to where I want to be and finally love my job and support my family!

I really don't like to hear that education is not need it, most of this people who say this already have a degree and making money off youtube or other social media saying this. NOW CS and SE are very similar, the CS will use theories, test theories, and even come up with a new theories that will make Software engineers job easy. Software engineers use already found techniques and programs to developed and work on a projects to create a software. That is why is called a Computer SCIENCE. Put it this way JAVA, Python, World wide web, all this programs were created by a Computer Science. Engineers help expand it, debug it and repair it if need it.

100 lines per day - complete nonsense. $1200 per day - complete nonsense. no, AI will not 2x - 5x swe efficiency any time soon. it will only achieve (maybe) ~1.5x and only in the areas of code generation and solution search, which are already efficiently done by IDE's and StackOverflow. That said, keep telling everyone that it will so everyone leaves the field so we can hike our prices back up when the shortfall hits.

Thank you man. I working as web dev 10 years (js). How I understood - time to learn new field

Thanks for your thoughts

You are great because you show the way to move forward others just make videos for money

The problem is that some people take rust like a religion and behave like fanatics.

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Pro take: ANY type of schooling gives you mostly bookish knowledge. It's just 15% of one's overall exposure to real world. The 85% hands-on self-taught grueling experimentation and trials/huge efforts that really reinforce everything you ACTUALLY use in industrial enterprise projects or even polished live monetized side hustle apps/SaaS, is the REAL part is what gets you to being a REAL dev/engineer of any worth. Many of us have been in school 8 years and some no schooling at all (and so what!) but we've been in the deepest trenches 20+ years. Those who snipe at us are fools. Utter disrespectful fools telling us they're noobs outta school and in new jr jobs, maybe even at at that or still loafing around looking for work. The kids need to learn to respect ppl.

Workload of multiple days in the local repo is a horrible idea. What if you get sick, have an accident, have a bluescreen of death? Just create a feature branch remote, push every day and squash if necessary on merge/rebase.

Hi there ! thanks for sharing your story. I will be a software engineer too. Your story is encouraging and worth admiring.I am a teacher and i am not that satisfied of my job. SO LET'S GO FOR IT🤩

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Man, I can't begin to tell you how much I identify with your story. This video has been on my watch list for a while. I'm glad I finally took the time to watch it. I'm a little over a year into my own career transition and there's still a lot I can learn from your experience. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

I hate to break it to you but the analogy with heavy lifting isn’t accurate. You won’t be lifting more. You will lift less and even feel the “burn” of the muscles as they accustomed with no exercise and now the stress level is higher. Very 6 weeks is good to change the exercises of your schedule so you can have the muscle rest while being stressed but differently. That’s why us important that the job you have to not be repeating over and over the same “solo”. But implement different ways so you can still be stimulated to “perform” the novelty and to increment those gains on the long run becoming adaptable and less focused only on one preferred way of doing things. Enjoy. Btw get a fking diffeeent job if you had 10 years in any kind of field.

Excellent video

NO code No life

we’re just perfectionists and it’s hard enough keeping up coding skills - the thought of creating content around it and trying to translate the chaos of coding brain to a logical absorbable medium as a video or blog just seems overwhelming. that’s about it.

I have no idea how i got to this video but im pretty sure the universe is sending me a message, i really needed to hear this. I am currently crashing in my brothers home office, i write code day and night, usually midnight is my active time when everyone is asleep. Im 32 and i belive im a very good flutter developer struggling to find a job in Cape Town. I just finished building an app called Vocabular using BLOC and Goodle Cloud (Thinking of shipping to AWS). My old ASUS i3 crashes a thousand times in a day but i never stop. Just like you i am self taught, thanks for your encouragement. God Bless

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I started programming 16 years ago. I never had this thought of creating programming content. Instead I have two other channels, one I sing in, other I make instrument tutorials. Not much sub though. But still happy, I pass my time. However, only a week back, thought of starting a channel to show off the world how I program. I don't know why I did and I don't have any expectations from it. It just is there.

I think great developers DO create contents. But it is not tutorials. They often write blog posts (just google their personal sites), many of them they post on Twitter, they give keynote speeches, they publish papers (check google scholar).

The baseline should only be knowledge. Judgeing each other toxicate work culture.

I didn't choose to be self-taught, but absolutely nobody is willing to apprentice a person in this trade. 100.000% of jobs require multiple years of experience. They don't WANT a talent pipeline.

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Very helpful

Because they thinking and leant, they do and learn, they optimize and learn. Also in general, they don’t like camera and maybe it’s really really hard for many of them to transfer the knowledge with a good pedagogical approach. Also, lake of time and their business model is different and they cannot focus on content creation and be updated with the new technology at the same time.

I'm self taught and learned'on'the'job dev, went to school for computer art. I did one of those career jumps some people do in their 30s. The biggest thing that hit me as a creative turned technical artist now is that, I didn't know any of the terms for the math or logic. I knew the logic, because it's logical; but not knowing what the term "derivative" was, or a partial, lambda, decorators, directives, etc. Say you know you want to create a function that is dynamically built using arguments, but not knowing that's a "lambda", or "partial" in some languages, just... not a "partial derivative", is a bit of a road block for a younger developer... The language we use within specific industries or programs is what causes the biggest barrier of entry to any subject.

great video with lots of explanations, thx!

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I honestly didn’t go into college with a very practical mindset and wasn’t on the “become a developer” grind. I just loved math and computers and wanted to learn above anything else.

I am sort of a beginner. I have worked for 9 months in a company using flutter and something happened... which stopped me from putting time in development or horning my skills for the past 3 years. As a result, I kinda forget most of the coding. I am pretty sure I've got a bad memory. But now I am picking up Android development by making apps. As I learned I tended to write blogs and use them as my notes for the future.

I don't think self taught or not has anything to do with it. More signs of an inexperienced or insecure developer in general.

How did you go from struggling with JavaScript to finally understanding it? I’m in that place rn, struggling with JavaScript. I understand most of it but when it comes time to apply it to a project I feel stuck

Grads are snobs, they think the title makes them more knowledgeable when in reality they just have a lot of theory but little practice. The comment highlighted shows the classic envy people get because they realize that they spent 4-5 years at a university to then be behind people that did not do that, they feel entitled to claim that the time invested to study should give them a better position no matter what, as if they were unable to accept that there are other routes or that they simply chose the fool route. Most developers I work with are not graduates, including seniors and leads, they gained knowledge trough other means and they took the time to master the same concepts taught at unis. It is true that having a long guided tutorial (university) that explains core concepts helps but it only does as long as you learnt them well and know how to use them, someone that made it past uni doesn't necessarily know everything they have been taught about, this is the same in every profession, you just proved that you know the bare minimum to qualify and you are supposed to be equipped with the basics to grow, you are still a newbie. Most development roles do not require such in-depth knowledge in certain aspects of coding, if you are a front end dev writing and styling components you can get there easily, it is for the more senior positions when certain stuff can help you make your code/app/site run more efficiently. Also, in the real world there are deadlines, budgets and investors that do care and push for things to be delivered, not to be delivered at the highest standards and most optimally, in fact, it is really key to know which aspects of development you can sacrifice for your use case as the impact for the real user is negligible, explain to a top head at your company that you can't ship the product because it is not xyz, good luck with that. I have never met a grad developer that knows the very same concepts taught in this video and I have seen these concepts taught in Udemy courses, it is a matter of what you have been taught and how the teacher ensured that you embedded the concept and use it.

Commit multiple times a day. Push multiple times a day. Merge with discipline.

I mean, the biggest thing I've found is that I get code from off shore teams that doesn't even compile without massaging or it's filled with compiler warnings or errors that make me wonder how it ever made it to production. In other words, there aren't "personalities" in the code base, it's mostly just crap code that needs to be completely rewritten. Reading others' code has taught me more about what not to do than what to do.

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People don't create content either due to time constraints, or another important professional concept.... dark arts. Some people think, why should I teach my future competition? Knowledge as a gatekeeper, because most learning materials, don't even remotely put it together for you, even in open-source circles. Just researching a TLS pipe, you hit brick walls. By '07, Android surpassed NT4 in tls cve which exposes the knowledge disparity. You could build a real CS degree just with a TLS project as a capstone course. It's that important, it could land you a job, yet thorough docs? To this day, education is a problem.

I'm currently working on a product that is the result of some issues I encountered when I was a freshmen in college.Problably the biggest project yet in my life. I don't have ressources to hire devs for the App so I went to learn how to code then work on it. I should launch my MVP by december 2024. it's very exiting!

Sorry mate but 3 years also ain't enough .. Anything great in life takes a long time and that time is a decade ...If you wanna master any skill and eventually get rewarded, it will take you 10 years minimum ... Not 3 ...

I think your premise is totally bogus. I've been a software engineer since the mid 70s and there has never been a lack of great content. The difference is that back then, obviously prior to the internet, content wasn't free. It came in the form of great books. With the rise of the internet the flood gates were opened and the waters were muddied by way too many people posting just learned skills and often incorrect but there was and still are great channels of valuable and accurate content out there. You just have to be smart enough to know who's bsing you and who isn't.

There is more to life than coding but I hate the tone of this that it should be shameful to do it on your spare time. I have been in the business for 25 years. I LOVE to code. I also sail, do Jiu Jitsu, climb mountains, and cook. I am planning a Kilimanjaro trip next year and a transatlantic solo crossing. In all those trips I have planned via Starlink or another way that I can have full internet access so I can continue to work. Don't shame people for loving to code because you only do it as a job.

I feel like learning Rust has improved my C++ code safety tremendously. My ptsd from borrow checker warfare paid off.

keep it up travis! these shorts really help jump start my morning motivation to do algos...