Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[BiggWebb79]

Its possible though does have risks since there could be situations where your times for the two jobs overlap and you may be forced to choose one over the other on that day. Do it frequently enough and you might blow up your spot and get let go. I've never tried it but have heard of people doing this but burning out after a while.

Definitely waiting the options of doing this. I would rather have another contract gig or something part-time but I'm going have to get more info when I speak to a hiring manager.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Worst part about my job is having to deal with these passive aggressive racist contracted devs from east-european countries who think they're hot shyt and refuse to accept that a statement made by a black man was actually correct and they were not

 

[EzekelRAGE]

Diving more into react. Went the udemy route and got a monthly sub.
Doing this course: https://www.udemy.com/course/react-tutorial-and-projects-course/learn/
Seems good so far. Dude explains well and it seems to be updated with the most current stuff like React Router 6.
He has a lot of lil challenges after he finishes a topic, which helps a lot.

There were a couple other more well known react apps, but they either werent updated enough(One didnt use Redux Toolkit) or they person's accent turned me away.

Wanted to do the Traversy React Udemy course, but he goes way too fast and doesnt explain anything. He did some state stuff and didnt explain what state was or why you use it. If I hadnt took that Scrimba beginner's course I wouldve been lost just copying Brad's code. If he's not explaining state, I figured I might as well not waste my time diving deeper with him.

When I get more comfortable with React, I plan on redoing my truck journal app using it.

 

[null]

Worst part about my job is having to deal with these passive aggressive racist contracted devs from east-european countries who think they're hot shyt and refuse to accept that a statement made by a black man was actually correct and they were not

i've worked as a dev in EE breh. dem people dem

 

[EzekelRAGE]

Think I finally understand useReduce. Actually implementing it makes understanding it 100x better. Just a better way to handle different states.

 

[Water]

Think I finally understand useReduce. Actually implementing it makes understanding it 100x better. Just a better way to handle different states.

If my state object gets too complicated I immediately reach for useReducer. Makes everything a lot easier.

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

Diving more into react. Went the udemy route and got a monthly sub.
Doing this course: https://www.udemy.com/course/react-tutorial-and-projects-course/learn/
Seems good so far. Dude explains well and it seems to be updated with the most current stuff like React Router 6.
He has a lot of lil challenges after he finishes a topic, which helps a lot.

There were a couple other more well known react apps, but they either werent updated enough(One didnt use Redux Toolkit) or they person's accent turned me away.

Wanted to do the Traversy React Udemy course, but he goes way too fast and doesnt explain anything. He did some state stuff and didnt explain what state was or why you use it. If I hadnt took that Scrimba beginner's course I wouldve been lost just copying Brad's code. If he's not explaining state, I figured I might as well not waste my time diving deeper with him.

When I get more comfortable with React, I plan on redoing my truck journal app using it.

I'm doing Colt Steele's course. He moves slowly and focuses on teaching the fundamentals thoroughly. The only problem is that it's a bit too slow and kind of outdated. He's added some new sections that cover some of the newer stuff though, but they're all the way at the end of the course.

He uses class based components for most of the course

I tried Traversy's, but like the said he rushes through things and doesn't really explain things. I imagine his course would be good if you already had a good foundation.

Thanks for putting me on to John, will check out his course now

 

[KingDanz]

nothing pisses me off more, than when you follow the documentation exactly and it still doesn't work. I'm trying to import video.js in nuxtjs application, error says "Could not find a declaration file for module 'video.js'.'", i shouldn't be stuck on installing/importing a package for hours.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

I'm doing Colt Steele's course. He moves slowly and focuses on teaching the fundamentals thoroughly. The only problem is that it's a bit too slow and kind of outdated. He's added some new sections that cover some of the newer stuff though, but they're all the way at the end of the course.

He uses class based components for most of the course

I tried Traversy's, but like the said he rushes through things and doesn't really explain things. I imagine his course would be good if you already had a good foundation.

Thanks for putting me on to John, will check out his course now

Turns out most of John's react udemy stuff is on his youtube too
Github with files used in video. He gives you starter files and final files: GitHub - john-smilga/react-advanced-2020


He still mentions React Router 5 in that vid but has a playlist on his channel(link here) that talks about React Router 6(same vids he uses on his udemy course)
If you following on youtube, when he suggests doing the "matching projects" he means. Also has Redux Toolkit playlist too.

React Project video for the code along
Github with the react projects GitHub - john-smilga/react-projects
Demo of the projects (All the basic ones are covered in the youtube vid): React Projects || John Smilga

He uses class based components for most of the course

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

Turns out most of John's react udemy stuff is on his youtube too
Github with files used in video. He gives you starter files and final files: GitHub - john-smilga/react-advanced-2020


He still mentions React Router 5 in that vid but has a playlist on his channel(link here) that talks about React Router 6(same vids he uses on his udemy course)
If you following on youtube, when he suggests doing the "matching projects" he means. Also has Redux Toolkit playlist too.

React Project video for the code along
Github with the react projects GitHub - john-smilga/react-projects
Demo of the projects (All the basic ones are covered in the youtube vid): React Projects || John Smilga

I just copped the Udemy course on sale yesterday. Good looking out breh

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

i've worked as a dev in EE breh. dem people dem

Where in Eastern Europe? How was the experience overall?

 

[null]

Where in Eastern Europe? How was the experience overall?

romania. highly @ work. outside of work it was mixed.

the worst group over there are the young professionals. the ones with globally low-ish salaries, a superiority complex and a chip on their shoulders.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

Well, basically done I guess. Enjoyed making it. Really helped my understanding of certain things. Mostly likely wont be using materialize again. Apparently the makers of it abandoned it a couple years ago. EJS is cool, gonna look more into react since that seems to be the most popular. Used passport local strategy for user authentication.

EJS
Express
Node
Mongo

Short vid goin thru all the pages.

Redid this app in the MERN stack



I still need to work on the errors for entering the wrong info for brokers/companies. Also, issue with css when there are a lot of brokers/companies in the view all section. It stretches the page too much and goes past the slate colored bg.

Working with React was fun. Had to switch out the authentication from passport to JWT. Couldnt get the logout to work with passport.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Why does concurrency and distributed computing have to be so hard in practice? Code be looking all but when you finally run it on the production pipeline, all sorts of performance problems start popping up out of nowhere. Been hacking away at these issues for daaaays now. Im bout ready to accept this L

Finally got the W in this. I ironed out all the kinks and my code made it to the production pipeline and is running flawlessly
Last night I had the best sleep i've had all year

 

[Software]

Love seeing the grinding yall doing in here. Keep it up