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  1. Programmers have 2 paths: 1. Imposter Syndrome 2. Superiority Complex
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  2. The "At least they responded, righ?" hit too close to homeee lmaoooo
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  3. you need experience to work, but to work you need experience...... its an eternal cycle 😭
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  4. I can settle for just not being poor.
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  5. What's sad too is family and others critique you. "Why aren't you working?" "Why don't you have a job?" And they literally don't understand how cooked the job market is and that no one calls back or you just get outright rejected.
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  6. I'm right there with you. I graduated in Dec 2023 and have been looking for a related CS job since then. I've applied to probably 400 jobs and only had 3 interviews and a handful of rejections.
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  7. You know the CS job market is beyond cooked when people would rather get a whole engineering degree instead 😭
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  8. currently at my first job and learning quickly that "leet code problems" and the like don't have all that much to do with what makes one a good programmer. Learn to structure / modularize your code well, learn design patterns, learn to read documentation, and how to structure your approach to a task. If you have a solid grasp on the fundamentals (stuff like value-types vs reference-types, encapsulation, and so on) then you'll be able to write what you need, and become more proficient as time goes on, of course. By far the most challenging aspect of my work is working with the existing structures and their (very frequently unintuitive) behavior, and how to translate somewhat vague requirements into code / actual behavior of the app.
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  9. That thumbnail is fiiiire
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  10. I'm literally doing it the opposite way. Dropped out of engineering and now doing maths and CS. I hate engineering at college, but I do like some of the jobs available so I'll just do a masters in it if needed. But I do really like your message. I was really naive too, going back with a fresh mindset and not forcing yourself through it is the best (if possible). Wish you the best with engineering.
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  11. This level of honesty is exactly what I needed, thank you ; - ;
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  12. I liked your take on how to approach learning. Also, I related to the part about overcoming the fear of the unknown by just doing it. I can't remember where I read it, but the act of thinking about doing something you want to do satisfies a part of our brains that increases how difficult it is to actually start doing it. I look forward to your next banger of a video
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  13. the difference between being a kid and an adult is when you take full responsibility for yourself and your actions. really hammer in that last point.
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  14. God job on the video! I'm not a software developer or programmer. I'm working towards security related fields. But I really enjoy watching your videos and love the way you present! Keep going 😊
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  15. Omg, this video is the best🤣 your hard time coding resembles a lot my struggle every time I start a new project. I don’t feel alone anymore!!!🙏🏻
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  16. Like you, I also wanted to learn to fly so I could become an aerospace engineer. So I did! It cost almost $20,000. Then I went off to college, found out I suck at calculus, dropped out, started over somewhere else, and now I'm a software engineer lol. So now I have a pilot's license but I'm too busy and poor to use it.
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  17. My education is my responsibility. In other words, I have to be proactive in my life.
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  18. So happy to see you uploading again 🥳 I always admire how you show the struggling side of a programmer 😁 your vids are always super real, and thats why they speak so much to us 😅 Most channels out there (with tutorials or not) tend to show a very polished version of the "tutor" like he/she is all knowing and never makes mistakes or is never googling stuff 😂 Plz keep making more 🙏 we need more people like you 😁
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  20. Hey Maria, I suffer from huge concentration issues and you got my full attention through the whole video. I do remember that a chipmunk killed my whole family. I certainly hope that I can work on my learning skills now :)
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  21. Just wanted to suggest a niche but extremely fun alternative programming role - Research Software Engineering. I've been an RSE for a few years after finishing my PhD (not a requirement) and it's great. RSEs usually work in academic institutions but many work in R&D focused companies, charities, government, etc. The work is much more interesting than standard software engineering (maybe with the exception of game dev) and your work genuinely makes a difference. I myself work on high performance computing, using some of the most powerful computers ever built to do very cool science like tsunami prediction and climate modelling. Some of my colleagues work on prototype medical software, others build services for citizen science, and some even maintain a text editor for writing in a dead language! There's usually some opportunity to get involved in teaching if that intrigues you. As in many academic/academic adjacent roles, it doesn't pay particularly well (I'm relatively senior and still on ~£45k ~= $55k) but it more than makes up for it in the good work-life balance, interesting and impactful work, and tight-knit, friendly community, both globally and in the UK.
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  22. I'm also going through uni for the second time. i also did not have the best time the first time but so far university is Much less stressful and much more fulfilling. having that fully developed frontal lobe really helps lol. Hoping for the best for you :D
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  23. Love it! What are your thoughts on JavaScript? I would love to see video content talking about your favorite languages.
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  24. Big Crunch Rip sounds like a tasty Tex-Mex fast-food special. I'd like to try that. If there's time.
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  25. Your hair is messy... :D
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  26. At the end of Advanced, you might wanna shave your head sister 😂
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  27. You give off kurtis Conner vibes lol.
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  28. continue to be random :) please keep changing to what you what
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  29. I really appreciate you using camel casing in your channel name
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  30. Hey, I want to learn to fly too, at some point. It's just that as a broke college student, I feel your pain about the price. Renting an aircraft and instructor for 40+ hours is expensive, who knew? What I can recommend is going to EAA AirVenture, which is coming up in about a month. If you go, bring earplugs. The military jets are loud AF.
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  31. "kan niet en wil ik niet, liggen op het kerkhof" meaning: "cant and wont are buried at the graveyard." it's a dutch expression haha
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  32. I want to say it too.. "that I will do what I want to do as in what I expect from myself and what is it that brings me most joy and makes me okay with the related suffering" but can you really go with it?... I mean at this stage of life we can't help but to rely on people especially our parents... what if our thoughts and dreams doesn't align with theirs... it's difficult to make our own decisions when we don't have much control over our life and financially we are empty... we might want to do something that may not have much financial certainty... we may have passion and extreme desire but to actually achieve that we will need support.. it's not like college is free or anything that we want to involve with is free.. so what do we do?
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  33. Two videos in the same month 😮😮,ur kidnapped or smth?
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  34. Great video, glad I could contribute :)
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  35. I think you forgot: "You can even work as a programmer in an Art history museum"
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