My Self-Taught Programmer Success Story: From Broke to Stoked
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I'm also a music producer, but I started learning frontend development from scratch at the beginning of last year. I landed my first freelance job yesterday, and in a few weeks, I have an interview for a full-time position as an Angular developer.
@TheSombreroHead
9 ай бұрын
Update?
@ShangoTheGod
9 ай бұрын
How did it go?
@divinesackitey6938
8 ай бұрын
how did it go?
@doneilchapman1542
8 ай бұрын
Congratulations mann
@natoyle
8 ай бұрын
Congrats
I don't know why, but music production prepared me for coding , stay hour on a daw and learn is not that different than studyng coding, so now it feel so natural
I love this story. I have been saying I want to jump into this field and this is my sign
Great story, happy for you! thank you for sharing
I’m going a somewhat different path. I’ve been self taught for 8-9 months and recently I’ve felt lost and lacked direction. Then I looked into my local community college which I previously graduated from in a completely different degree and they recently opened an IT building. I’m going back to cc to complete an it associates with a programming concentration so I can get more firm direction while working extensively on the side on my self taught journey which is building my portfolio. I am well ahead of the game already and this video pushed me further as recently I kept bouncing from going for cs degree or bootcamp which both can be great but I don’t want to fork out all of that money and University is just too much time lost for potentially not much of a gain given my experience. Granted I have a lot and I mean a lot to learn but I have the discipline to stick to self taught but this associates will be short, very little cost and I can get some better direction while simultaneously building my portfolio. I’m so excited and this video reaffirmed my plan. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your story!
Dude you're a life saver. Well done.
thanks man, currently learning html css and bootstrap after I finish those courses im gonna practice javascript and reactjs.
Same here. I started 3 months ago. Looking for another 6-7 months of learning and landing my first Front-End developer position
@malikmalcolm425
6 ай бұрын
How goes it now?
Thank you for this! It's sooo encouraging😭
This was really inspiring ❤
This is literally so good 😊
That's a subscribe my guy. Was doing music also... but before I graduated, right during March-April 2020 upon my graduation... i had a remote graduation... couldn't even start my career and everything I learnt in the past 3 years. Here I am now coding and learning continually. Your story gives me hope. It's inspirational and realistic. THANK YOU! You're doing good! Keep going Dylan!! 🙏🏽💯🚀
Very inspiring! I'm gonna adopt that motto...Persistence trumps talent every single time!
This is a great video, so many I’ve seen are repetitive, all over the place and vague. This is detailed well and stays on point.
Thanks for this video 🙏
great story! thanks for sharing
Great motivational video Dylan! I am starting the journey as a full-stack developer and will definitely check the Udemy resources you suggested.
Congrats bro
Nice one, good luck amigo
Great testimony Everytime I feel like I'm getting nowhere, videos like this are a reminder of how far I've come Thanks for sharing
@Swahilirecapmovies25
2 ай бұрын
True
Dope story!
I was just getting ready to ask you about LinkedIn when you mentioned to keep it updated. Social media makes me straight up miserable. I had an account when LinkedIn was new and got rid of it. I was hoping to gain tech entry without it but one program I signed up for required an account. I'm hearing all this about networking on there and I feel very much like it's selling my soul. Not to mention, people I thought I was cool with, won't add me. And industry gatekeepers say you need a lot of connections to "appear" hireable. I like how down to Earth and relatable your career switch sounds though. Makes me feel like I can do it. Trying to get the hang of this JavaScript and React stuff at the moment.
@dylancole_314
Жыл бұрын
LinkedIn is a great tool but shouldn't be relied on. Always great to keep it updated though. And thanks :) I try to keep it real!
Nice! I started teaching myself before the pandemic and I got a job working at walmart after about 2 years but Iost the job after 6 months because they wanted me to move to LA. I'm back in square one. Lol. 4 year in.
I understand your pain for commute. I was doing 3 hours when I first enter the workforce and its detrimental to your health.
Needed this rn
Can you make a video teaching the pomodoro technique in depth?? Thanks for these videos!
Really appreciate your videos it's not only helpful for aspiring developers like us but also a great source of motivation. Please keep on upload video it's extremely helpful 😇
@dylancole_314
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the words! Glad you resonate. Honestly, I'm still learning so let's learn together 🙂
I have been a lazy bum. I need to really apply this. Who's with me?
Yea, you got it from the very beginning. Everything is free already.
Hey Dylan, how old are you at the first job as a programmer ?
"Presistence triumphs over talent", uh? Gotta repeat it myself every day from now on.
@dylancole_314
Жыл бұрын
Good to see you! And that's right. I still do...
Where did you start freelancing , how was your first payment ?
Is there a video where you outline how your skills develop AFTER you started working in tech? Or were you doing mostly the same things and just new job opportunities came about?
Great
Great video
How about talking about software architects?
But how much does your current job pay????
Appreciate the video! I'm a few months into my self-taught programming route. I've learned some of c, some of c++, and then most of html and css. Are you saying you got a job with just html css and javascript?
@dylancole_314
Жыл бұрын
That's awesome! And yeah, I've gotten multiple jobs with a knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS. It sort of just depends on the companies and roles you're applying to.
@ebengardner2429
Жыл бұрын
@@dylancole_314 That's so encouraging! Did you put the websites you built on your resume as projects to show employers?
@dylancole_314
Жыл бұрын
@@ebengardner2429 That I did! I actually just filmed a video about this - it'll be out soon so keep an eye out.
@ebengardner2429
Жыл бұрын
@@dylancole_314 will do! Subscribed (:
What do you recommend when learning from FCC. Should i do extra projects when learn from them
@dylancole_314
Жыл бұрын
This is the course that I took: www.freecodecamp.org/learn/2022/responsive-web-design/ I highly recommend it. And yeah, extra projects = great idea. It's a good way to solidify what you learn in the course(s).
I need to find a way to make money so I can buy this course
i can not find your linkedin profile
Persistence Triumphs Talent!! Unless your in the music industry! lol
seems like a lot of self taught guys learned in 2020 after covid began
Hello there, greetings from Finland 😎🫡🇫🇮 Im also started learning web development on my own for couple of months now and got 2 courses from Udemy pretty cheap on sale Planning to switch jobs from this ** grocery store job which is a dead end... Currently just am doing the little "pig game project" (from the JavaScript course by Jonas Schmedtmann I think) and after that i think I could start to implement these techniques to my own projects... 😎🥸 Your success has given me little more motivation. Gongratulations again ! 👍👍👌🙂
Hey Dylan love your dedication towards content.. but your Thumbnails are not that appealing..i can send you a few redesigned thumbnails for your channel let me know if it sounds good !
Promo SM 💃
"A degree or a bootcamp is not necessary, and I am living proof...So after I graduated from COLLEGE I went on and...." LMAO
Hey Dylan, loved your content. I have also started learning to code. I started with HTML, now learning CSS on my own plus I'm learning Python at University as I'm a CS student in Pakistan. Also, I subscribed and followed you on Insta. Hoping to get career advice from you. :)
@dylancole_314
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words and thank you thank you thank you for the support! I hope to give you as much of my knowledge, skills, and advice as I can. It's great to hear that you're learning all these technologies. All amazing skills to have.
Would you please share your LinkedIn id sir?