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- Hired a programmer to make my website faster, I think they're scamming me. Can you please check this?
- Got hired for my first Junior Software Developer role with a high paying salary and I feel like an imposter
- How are people like this guy so good at programming?
- Can't tell if the beginner course I'm trying is badly made or if this is what learning coding is like.
- Is it too late for coding?
- How can I stop being so indecisive and just choose a programming language?
- Looking for a mentor
- Loops
- Can my lack of indept knowledge of CSS deter me from becoming a great Web Developer?
- First Developer Job Landed -- Path for Posterity
- C PROGRAM - Help creating & calling functions
- Possible crappy PHP programming from someone hired?
- Need advice to continue my study.
- Project-based learning
- What are lessons that you wish you would have learnt early in Programming carrier ? Related to Learning, carrier, Scope, Practice job requirements that are not taught in courses ?
- Where Do I Go From Here? So much to learn, which rabbit hole is the right one? Do I take the Red Pill or the Blue Pill?
- I feel lost. Should I stick to web development or do IOS development?
- Where to learn html css?
- Anyone good with HTML and CSS? I need help with this problem. Thanks.
- electing program in python terminal.
- Searching and changing the index of an element in a list of objects, how can I do this more elegantly in Java?
- How do you know right away that a program is inefficient? Any tell tales?
- How many times do you repeat the same project/problem.
- TIL of preppin' data. This is a challenge series where you prep data and finish goals.
| Posted: 06 Oct 2021 02:44 AM PDT I hired a programmer to improve my page speed. He said he'd do things like JS compression, lazy loading etc. When I checked the changes to the code I saw some encoded script, and decoded it to show this: I really don't know much about coding. But it seems like he's tricking Google Lighthouse and GTmetrix to show a faster loading time than is reality. Is that right? Thanks. Edit: Didn't expect this kind of reaction lol. To answer a few questions: the programmer initially responded by saying "Load your website on desktop and mobile, it loads faster" to which I said "But when I removed your code tricking Lighthouse/GTmetrix the pagespeed score went back to before..." at which point he stopped responding. As one user guessed, I found the guy on Fiverr. It seems most of the "speed up your Shopify store" gigs on Fiverr are doing the same thing. Best to hire a "Shopify Professional" through the Shopify platform. Some people have questioned my "I don't know much about coding" comment. I really don't. I know CSS and HTML, that's it. But I've used CMS like WordPress, Joomla etc. so much in the past that I'm able to put things into the code, take things out of the code, and change the code to suit my needs quite well. I can't write in any languages other than CSS and HTML though. How I discovered the trick: I was obviously already suspicious because it was a Fiverr gig. I copied the original code and his code into https://text-compare.com/ to see what he added, which just included a bunch of suspicious-looking stuff like "x6E\x61\x76" - what I do know about coding is that it's supposed to be generally straight-forward and easy to follow, and this was not. So I Googled it. The first page that came up was https://malwaredecoder.com/ - which decoded it to show me that they were targeting GTmetrix and Google Lighthouse in some way - though I didn't know how/why they were doing so. Anyway, thanks for explaining what the code was doing. Glad to have it off of my site. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2021 08:44 AM PDT Guys this is just stupid. I was referred to this company by a good friend of mine and started doing interviews with them. I honestly did not expect to get this job at all. I'm at a point in my job search where my attitude is like "idgaf if I get a job anymore, f*** it" because I'm tired of all the rejection. So I would just show up interview after interview and just responding to them openly and honestly about my experience. I get a call yesterday expecting to be told there's another round of interviews and they just whipped their c***s out on the table like "we'd like to make your an offer. Give us a number". I couldn't believe it. I told them the number and they were like, "you know what? We'll do you one better" and gave me $1,000 extra on top of what I had asked for. My brain was just like "??? con queso???" And I was trying hard not to let them hear my voice quivering as I was losing my shit. Guys, I feel like I just tricked everybody into thinking that I can do this job, but I feel like a total imposter. I graduated from a coding bootcamp a year ago and built a few simple full-stack apps by watching tutorials. Am I okay? Can I survive this and prove to them I'm a worthy candidate for this position? They didn't even ask me to do any coding challenges. I'm more scared than I am excited tbh because i don't want to let them down. This is just crazy you guys, I don't know what to expect. Thank you for reading. [link] [comments]  |
| How are people like this guy so good at programming? Posted: 06 Oct 2021 06:17 PM PDT I've never seen anything so discouraging in my life. This guys processing speed is on overdrive and just seeing him in action has to be the most discouraging thing ever. There are people out there that can literally process information this quickly and type just as quickly and write out their solutions. How are we ever going to be able to compete with these type of people in the marketplace? What gives people this ability? Its honestly impressive. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2021 11:06 PM PDT I've never coded before and wanted to try leaning c#, i ended up trying this course: https://www.udemy.com/course/unitycourse/ now i'm halfway through the second project and i feel like i haven't learned anything. I try to do the challenges the course gives, but most of the course im just following along with the instructor and typing what he types. Without really understanding what im typing or what it means. Is this what a course should be like? Or did i just pick a bad course to start with? Does anyone have any recommendations for better courses? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2021 06:55 PM PDT Hi everyone! I am nearing 33 years old and my background is simply English translator. I am from a small country in Asia. I moved to the US with my family and I am father of 2. After living about 2 years, I am lately thinking of changing career path and start learning coding or anything in IT field. I did many different jobs in hospitality, procurement, training and embassy project etc... Is this really a good idea to start learning coding in this age? I am in Seattle,WA and thinking of applying to UW coding bootcamp. Please share your ideas. Judgements are also welcome. Thank you very much in advance [link] [comments]  |
| How can I stop being so indecisive and just choose a programming language? Posted: 07 Oct 2021 12:09 AM PDT TL;DR at the bottom. It's been going on for multiple years now. But most of it has to do with me being lazy, work getting in the way, not giving it enough time and most importantly, jumping to something else. I can't create anything by myself unless I follow a tutorial. I started learning programming as a hobby. But everything looks so interesting to me that I keep changing and learning something new that I find more interesting instead. I know I should stick to something I like but I like all of these things so much that I can't decide. It started with me learning HTML and CSS first. (I know these are markup languages and not programming languages). After I learned the basics of those and created a few basic websites, I learned about JavaScript. I learned the basics of that and created a few basic standalone JavaScript projects and also implemented JavaScript on a few websites I practised. I also learned the basics of JQuery along with it. Since my background is in graphic design. I was looking for easier ways to do all that and make the websites look more beautiful. So I came across WordPress. I learned the basics, even created a few personal websites. The templates made everything a lot easier. I liked it for a while but it didn't felt the same. So then I learned about Bootstrap. I loved it and it made the websites really beautiful with lesser coding. But then I learned about Python and what it can do. So I thought I should start learning this. It looked more fun than web design. Writing code was easier too. I created a few small projects in it and also learned about PyGame. I learned the basics but never made anything. So I got curious about how games are actually made. Android games looked easier than computer games so I focused on that. First I learned the basics of Android Studio. It needed also needed Java so I learned Java too. Then I found out about Unity and learned that too. People used C# on Unity so I learned the basics of C# too. Both C# and Java's syntax looks similar. While learning both of them, I found out about the gaming engine called Construct 2. So I left everything and started learning that. Since my background is in graphic design, I just had to create my own art and "coding" was a lot easier on that. I just had to put some inputs. Then I got curious about Full-Stack Web Development. So I searched what's included in it and if it's for me or not. I started by learning the basics of PHP, MySQL. Then I found a Udemy course on Web Development by Angela Yu. She taught a lot of things including the above-mentioned things and MERN stack (MongoDB, Mongoose, Express.js, React.js, Node.js). Then I found out there are other stacks like MEAN and MEVN stacks with the only difference being Angular.js and Vue.js. I only watched the videos of everything in Full-Stack Web Development but never practiced it. TL;DR:I have learned a lot of programming/markup languages but I only know the basics. I am always getting distracted by something else. I can't create anything by myself unless I follow a tutorial. Here's the list of things I learned the basics of: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, WordPress, Bootstrap, Python, PyGame, Android Studio, Unity, Java, C# and Construct 2. List of things I only watched Video tutorials of: PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, Mongoose, Express.js, React.js, Node.js, Angular.js and Vue.js. I know I should stick to something I like out of them but I like all of these things so much that I can't decide. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2021 07:09 PM PDT Hi, I'm looking for a mentor to sort of guide me through the way of "self-taught" programming. I originally was going to school for computer science but my financial aid fell through due to some personal problems. Anywho I'm now 19 and living independently. I work a pretty crappy job that has me pretty much paycheck to paycheck. This isn't what I want for myself. I want to pursue a career in some sort of programming field. I work 5 days a week, roughly 11-8 ish. So on my downtime I'm trying to learn what I can to hopefully start building a portfolio by next year. Any help or advice would be appreciated, thank you!! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2021 10:55 PM PDT Do for loops and while loops automatically create arrays? I'm working on this: "Using a WHILE loop, write a function which prints a countdown from . When the countdown gets to When it's at When the counter is finished, print . And have this so far as code:
// Declare a variable for the while loop
// Declare a "while" statement for while loop
// Declare console.log statement } Mind advising? [link] [comments]  |
| Can my lack of indept knowledge of CSS deter me from becoming a great Web Developer? Posted: 06 Oct 2021 10:22 PM PDT So like the heading of this topic stated, my CSS knowledge is not really what I'm proud about although I've used various resources both paid and free and I built just two basic projects with HTML and CSS, I'm currently learning JAVASCRIPT but in my head I think I don't know CSS and that's messing my head up and making me feel discouraged. Is this lack of knowledge going to have an adverse effect in my future career? [link] [comments]  |
| First Developer Job Landed -- Path for Posterity Posted: 06 Oct 2021 08:08 PM PDT Hey everyone! I just landed my first ever developer job, having transitioned from a background in theater performance. It was about a year and a half effort with lots of stress and more self-doubt than I care to remember. This job came through effort, practice, and *luck.* When I was studying, I always found it helpful to read similar posts and learn the different paths people took to help inform my own process, so: Education: I completed two separate full stack courses. I didn't have the money to spare for a 10-15k bootcamp, so I found free/low-cost alternatives:
Process: My study schedule wasn't too intensive, honestly. I probably spent about 3-5 hours a day, 6 days a week learning the material. The pandemic and unemployment aid obviously helped allow me to focus my attentions on this work. I found that I would get hyper-focused and spend 12-14 hour days working when I was building personal projects. Which brings me to my essential process point: I studied the course material and completed course assignments/projects, and would also periodically supplement this learning by building original web applications using the tools I had learned. It was in this messy time of building that I really learned how to make everything go together and got a better understanding of the logic behind the lesson choices. I subscribed to several programming subreddits including this one, r/cscareerquestions, r/programminghumor, r/programminghorror (the latter two, though jokey, legit did teach me things -- like "oh... I guess that's bad code, let's go Google why"). Furthermore, I cannot recommend enough (assuming you want to dive into JavaScript knowledge like I did) the book Eloquent JavaScript. Reading this book indirectly got me my first job by coincidentally teaching me everything I needed to know to kill the JavaScript technical interview. I also read through most of the You Don't Know JavaScript series and parts of Clean Architecture. Job Applying/Interviewing Honestly, this is where luck came in. I hated, hated, hated this process, and I probably never felt more hopeless than during this time. All I can say is write unique cover letters FOR EVERY POSITION! Yes, you'll likely have reusable components ('eyyy component based frameworks!), but that introduction and closing paragraph better be fucking unique and they better incorporate that company's mission statement somehow and appeal to the energy they put forth on their website. I only had one resume, because I was able to fit everything I knew onto it, so I didn't need to tweak it for different jobs really. If you have an abundance of information, then I suggest you tailor each resume to the job and treat each application as though that will be the one that gets you your job. Yes, exhausting. But it will improve your chances over blind applying to dozens of places. Furthermore, if you know ANYONE in the industry, check if their place is hiring, and if not, ask if they know of any OTHER places hiring or friends who may know of places. Swallow that pride and know that,
During this time, I tried to do a daily Leetcode challenge, as soul-sucking as it was. I'm not very good at those, struggling often on the easy questions to an extent. But through repetition it got a *bit* simpler, reviewed core concepts, and kept building new projects, making sure each skill on my resume had a chance to shine in some capacity. I think what really helped me in the interviews was how well I handled soft-skill, behavioral questions and how personable I come off. Don't underestimate the value of being friendly. And I can't stress enough the importance of remaining curious during your interviews (when you get them, because you will). Aside from instances of technical quizzing, LISTEN to what your interviewer asks or shares about their company or experience and be encouraged to respond with questions if you have them (and try to have them). Curiosity kept my interviews like conversations, which allowed me to feel more confident, whiiiichh then made me seem more personable, whichhhh then helped demonstrate to a degree my soft-skills. Ultimately, I wound up with two job offers, accepted one for a developer/consultant position, and the rest is history. As you can tell, my path led me down a very specific curriculum, one tailored to JavaScript on both the front and the back -- and that may not be your jam, and that's totally cool. Tons of resources out there for every language. But I hope this may in some way help you a bit the way these posts helped me! Now cue the endless Imposter Syndrome. [link] [comments]  |
| C PROGRAM - Help creating & calling functions Posted: 06 Oct 2021 11:18 PM PDT Hi, I have a program written here https://pastebin.com/vwWtygiC The program does not use functions, can someone please help me figure out how I would take portions of this code (I have added comments to indicate what parts I want to turn into callable actions) and create separate callable functions? I have been trying for the last 2 hours with no luck... Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Possible crappy PHP programming from someone hired? Posted: 06 Oct 2021 08:26 PM PDT Hi, programmers of reddit! I'm a programmer as well, although I only know Java, so I got a programmer to program my website in PHP. However, the website has been down for 5 days, and as soon as you open the website you get "error in line", "cannot modify header information" errors in the main screen, and the cookies don't work. He says it's not his mistake. Is it bad programming or not? [link] [comments]  |
| Need advice to continue my study. Posted: 06 Oct 2021 07:40 PM PDT Hello everyone! So I'm 30 hours in my journey to learn front-end and the course I'm following got me through the basics of HTML and CSS so I'm a couple of units away from getting into JS. I am currently learning about bootstrap for CSS and it feels like "practicing" here is more or less just copy-pasting stuff and I'm kind of concerned that I'll forget mostly everything about what I tried to do in CSS "manually". At the same time, I've seen that there are frontend challenge sites that can help me practice the html and css parts until I get a better grip, however I'm trying to understand if I should do that for a while or just postpone it in favor of the possibly more important JavaScript content that the course has. Any opinions?Do I just try and hone the html/css part or is it better to move on to the actual programming language? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Oct 2021 12:32 AM PDT Hello all, I would like to ask if there is a platform or company or something like that, where someone can practice development with real projects. More like a "traineeship/apprenticeship". I wouldn't like to pay to do work for someone else tbh. So I'm looking for a win-win situation. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Oct 2021 12:26 AM PDT I am new to Programming and learning python through 100 Days of python by Angela Yu on Udemy ? I am curious to know practical lessons which you learn late in life by your experience ...... [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Oct 2021 12:08 AM PDT So I have been learning python for a while now, and am very comfortable with the syntax/OOP/common libraries used for Data Science (NumPy, Pandas, os, seaborn, sklearn). As of late I have been focusing on learning Data Science Methodologies/Theory (Understanding Data Shape/Visualization, Data Cleaning, Data Exploration, Feature Engineering, Data Preprocessing, Model Building, Model Tuning and Ensemble Model Building etc.) I have also been practicing LeetCode on the side. While I feel like I can go down the Data Science Rabbit hole indefinitely as there is so much to learn, I feel like I am not making progress on the Software Development side of my skillset. Eventually (a year or two from now) I would like to be able to market myself for Software Development roles, but if I am being honest I do not really know what that would entail. I think this is a common problem for self-taught programmers, as there is an abundance of resources but that sometimes makes it hard to decipher where you should be spending most of your time. I think a next step for me is definitely to explore web development (Django/Flask) but even after that I feel like I am just learning libraries but not making any progress on the core fundamentals to what makes a good full-stack developer. One big question of mine is what does an average day of code look like for a software engineer? How can I ensure that I have a good grasp as to what a Software Engineering Role would require? Part of me wants to start The Odin Project to gain a better understanding on the fundamentals of being a Full-Stack Dev, but another part of me is saying to stick with python for a bit longer to foster my skills in one language first. Are there any courses similar to The Odin Project, that are in Python? Any advice is appreciated! Very open to good book recs for Full-Stack Dev in python! Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| I feel lost. Should I stick to web development or do IOS development? Posted: 06 Oct 2021 09:56 PM PDT I've been learning javascript for the past year but once I learned enough and tried a project, I couldn't do it. So I'd go back and learn some more cause maybe I didn't learn a subject fully.. and I was stuck in tutorial hell for awhile. Or I just couldn't think of a good enough project to do. I have a mac so I tried learning swift and doing IOS development which I enjoy cause I love apps. I've only learned some and pretty hard but I do enjoy the process more than learning web development relating things and I still haven't even touched React or any other framework. It felt like I had no real motivation with web dev. But it seems like the best way to get into the industry. But if I decide to go in the IOS path, I'd have to start all over. My goal was to at least look for jobs sometime next year. I feel so stuck, and very stupid at times. It's almost 2 years and I have nothing much to show for it. But I need to stick to one, I just don't know which. I feel like IOS might even be harder to get a jr job than web, and that's another reason I'm not sure. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2021 11:59 PM PDT Hi all! I am looking for a good resource to learn html/css and there are plenty of tutorials that have been recommended by others. However, many of these resources are either in text form (W3 Schools, http://htmlandcssbook.com/) and/or are from 2 years ago. I am terrible when it comes to retaining information in text and would love to know which is a good online course to take so that I can learn in video form. I do not mind either free or paid resources! Thanks for your help. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone good with HTML and CSS? I need help with this problem. Thanks. Posted: 06 Oct 2021 08:10 PM PDT Link 1: outline.com If you put Link 2 into Link 1 and click "Create Outline", you will get some pictures with a text caption that says "stock market correction, not a bear market". But if I go to the source code of the article in Link 2, I cannot find that text anywhere. Can anyone help me where to find that text caption "stock market correction, not a bear market" in the source code? [link] [comments]  |
| electing program in python terminal. Posted: 06 Oct 2021 11:52 PM PDT voted = 0 I was in the middle of making my program where there is a voting system in the terminal and I checked if the program was working when I ran into an error. The while loop won't stop even if the requirements for the loop is not met. Help would be GREATLY appreciated [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2021 09:33 PM PDT I have a list of objects stored in ArrayList. I want to find one element in this list based on a condition and shift it to the beginning of list. Here's how I'm dong it right now: The room and person class look like this: As seen from the code, I have a person's id, I want to check which room in the list contains that person and then shift that room to the start of room's list. I have done a very basic implementation above, just want to know if there can be more refined way of doing this using any in-build features of Java? I meant can I somehow use stream or forEach, I used for loops because I needed break statement as there will be only one element to be found. And is there any other way of changing index of element to the beginning rather than removing and appending at the starting? [link] [comments]  |
| How do you know right away that a program is inefficient? Any tell tales? Posted: 06 Oct 2021 03:59 PM PDT I'm still getting used to time and space complexity. What do you look for right away to think a program is inefficient? I don't understand how people can look at a program right away and say "that's too slow" I'm just curious if there are any general signs you look for off the bat (hopefully that makes sense). Is for loops usually bad (in Java) [link] [comments]  |
| How many times do you repeat the same project/problem. Posted: 06 Oct 2021 11:27 PM PDT Hello , lets say you guys are making a todo list app or a problem to solve. After watching a tutorial , how many times do you repeat the same project/problem and why? [link] [comments]  |
| TIL of preppin' data. This is a challenge series where you prep data and finish goals. Posted: 06 Oct 2021 01:06 PM PDT 🔗 https://preppindata.blogspot.com/ Currently at week 40. It was designed for Tableau Prep but I suggest use whatever you want. I am going to use pandas, SQL, and maybe even pyspark just for fun. They give out solutions after a week using Tableau prep but the process is easy to follow. The data is hosted in Google Sheets. [link] [comments]  |
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