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Ideally these are also things to continue you to do even while employed. You can never be too complacent.
Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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Scott Larock
Its hard leaving thecoli but I gotta find a way...
How would I get started in this? I want to program after I get the ccna. What’s a good school to start with? Is there schools for programming like iron hack?
Honestly no need to really pay for a school ..
YouTube has a lot of basic knowledge and people teaching programming.
Sololearn is a good app to practice and learn on your phone.. the pro version is $50 a year but it's worth it.
Also on the app store look for codeliber, there apps are pretty good for learning the basics ( HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
You learning Python?
Also I'd recommend the following websites
W3schools.com
W3docs.com (reference material)
Codepen.io (to work on projects)
Freecodecamp.org
Codingame.com
Javascript30.com
Goalkicker.com (free ebook downloads)
Theodinproject.com
If anybody knows any other useful sites, post them. I'd like to know some more new ones as well.
Scott Larock
Its hard leaving thecoli but I gotta find a way...
After this cert, I want to get into automation...
My situation is unique because I have disabilities so it's harder for me to work the traditional office job, talking to people and stuff so I'm really trying to so something completely online and remote.
I need this CCNA by the end of July and august I can hit up something new.
I hear a lot of python but I don't know if it's more development or automation.
Learn Python and something called Ansible
shadowking
All Star
How long did you spend learning DS?Update on this if anyone cares.
I failed interviews at Google and Amazon. Had interviews scheduled with Facebook, Microsoft, Spotify that I turned down cause I didn't like my performance on the interviews I failed and if you fail it's normally a 6+ month wait period on reapplying. I figured those interviews would be similar level of difficulty so I lowered my expectations and went for companies like Goldman Sach, Ikea, etc.
I ended up getting a offer from a well known company on the level of Goldman Sachs, Ikea. Pay is $50k+ more than my previous job but not in the Google/FB range of compensation I was aiming for.
I basically failed at what I was trying to do.
It's humbling as fukk but I plan to still study CTCI, EPI, and leetcode. I bought a book called Designing Data Intensive Applications I'd recommend and another called Microservices Patterns (by chris richardson, a black man). I copped those cause I spent so much time studying data structures and algorithms I failed an interview when I wasn't able to speak in detail about distributed systems I was involved in building.
My new job is heavy on distributed systems and using cutting edge backend and frontend frameworks. My hope is that over the next year or two I can somehow get strong enough leetcoding to solve hard questions. System design questions should be easier for me. Amazon is already contacting me again for interviews but i'm rejecting them cause I want to be way more prepared before I attempt another FAANG interview loop
Do you know discrete maths well?
How many practise questions did you have ?
desjardins
Superstar
Studied for about 2 months, I know basic discrete math concepts but i can't do proofs for algo analysis, and i did 50 LC questions and probably 10-20 questions in CTCI and EPI
desjardins
Superstar
New job has unlimited access to Udemy 
Can only reach it through the company servers though
I added Kubernates, Docker, and Openshift courses.
Can only reach it through the company servers though
I added Kubernates, Docker, and Openshift courses.
desjardins
Superstar
I got a Java Sun Cert and basically hyped up any lil bit of development I was exposed to. I was a manual tester , like typing in the URL and clicking buttons tester, I hyped up the few excel macros and automated testing scripts i wrote and that was good enough to get me in the door as a dev support person
Now days it probably makes sense to do tutorial projects put them on github and hype them up
shadowking
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But to be fair you practised very little.
You need a few hundred questions and a 3 to 4 month window
Try the following:
Re study your books on discrete math.
Learn ds again and algorithms
Practise white boarding your code (critical)
Minimum of 300 practise questions for muscle memory
OK don't lose hope
But to be fair you practised very little.
You need a few hundred questions and a 3 to 4 month window
Try the following:
Re study your books on discrete math.
Learn ds again and algorithms
Practise white boarding your code (critical)
Minimum of 300 practise questions for muscle memory
desjardins
Superstar
yea you are right. I underestimated the effort i needed to put it. I quit my job to study and time was ticking cause my wife didn't quite understand why i had to study when I've been in the industry so long
Hopefully in a year i can try again after doing maybe a hour a night leetcoding
LebronsHairline
AKA Chief Green Leaf
Man i just started fukkin around with google cloud and im reading everything in here and it all sounds like gibberish 
shadowking
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No worries it's definitely doableyea you are right. I underestimated the effort i needed to put it. I quit my job to study and time was ticking cause my wife didn't quite understand why i had to study when I've been in the industry so long
Hopefully in a year i can try again after doing maybe a hour a night leetcoding
No need to worry about calculus etc
Just focus on discrete math and a little bit of probability for performance estimates
Then when you go back to algorithms and data structure you'll be pissed off u didn't do it earlier lol
It'll be easier