@AngelEVM
Love the no nonsense approach. The “just do it” mentality. There is no better way! Thanks Don!
@skinnytimmy1
The fear of projects comes from something going wrong when i setup my own environment. In my bootcamp they said we should use wsl for windows and it always led to extra confusion when setting up projects. My point is often with courses and tutorials it makes you feel like you have to do things a certain way, or use certain languages / frameworks etc. Projects are about you doing whatever works for you. If the project you're thinking about only requires jquery don't delay it thinking you need to add react so an employer will be impressed.
@ThePetekal13
You have no idea how helpful this video is! Thank you for this!
@shelbyjackson6903
The biggest problem I have is something I struggle with even in things that OTHER people tell me I'm good at, I just feel inadequate at EVERYTHING. Like, others look at it (my job, for example) and tell me to my face "you're good at your job" and I say thank you but in the back of my mind I just go "I feel like I'm barely getting it done, I'm not fast enough etc. etc." And it makes me feel stupid, like I actually lack the mental capacity to be "good" at something. So it paralyzes me into wanting to do something but never starting.
@Rained_Out
I’ve been watching your boot camp reviews/interviews daily while I’m at my current job. Been looking to change careers for almost a year now and the content your channel provides has been such an amazing source of information and has helped me whittle down what bootcamps I’m seriously considering and what sort of preparations I need to have already under my belt to be ready for the eventual onslaught of intense learning.
@james_zedd
Well said Don. Building my own projects and going through the struggles that come with it has helped me progress more than any course I have ever taken.
@codingcryptofitness738
Had that feeling today I've been coding for a month mostly followed tutorials and tried to self teach myself.Finally I got to a blank project and my mind just went blank and had no idea where to start
@serasmaestroconconstancia
Here's what worked for me: 1.Take a well rated course that teaches the concepts with a real world project, this course should be preferably from a tutor that works as a senior+ developer already in a good company. 2.Document all the project with notion and try doing slight changes to it if possible, not big changes, just details, for example: change the logging from application insights to papertrail, use yml instead of the assistant for CICD, use postman instead of swagger, and so on... 3. Do the project again following your notion doc. 4. Build another similar project changing the business logic to make it a more real world scenario. Period. There you have, this simply CAN NOT FAIL, GUARANTEED IF YOU PUSH YOURSELF TO STICK AT IT EVEN IF YOU FEEL YOU ARE NOT DOING PROGRESS, JUST DO IT. ❤🎉
@mattwest4083
Bro your channel is going to grow real fast, keep it up!
@debra-kayeelliott3646
I really needed this video. Your suggestion about building something after a 1-hour module/tutorial to reinforce that concept/topic, and when you said it's the little light bulb and the little wins, instead of aiming for big leaps really resonated with me. The Frustration of things not clicking is REAL. Thank you.
@echuderewicz
Every tutorial should have this video as it's prerequisite.
@miscellaneouscell
It takes me for ever to finish a tutorial, because I go rouge and build my own project based on those skills. If you only learn something once you don't retain it. Practice Practice and Practice some more. Also take breaks and go back and re-create a project with those same skills. Long term memory... master it. :)
@beaubreau
It took me forever to learn this. I have been going to school part time studying CS for the last 7 years all while working full time. I am on the brink of turning 37 and this is my second degree (career changer). I have been also studying on the side because honestly all my school is focused on passing tests and not actually learning. I graduate this year and my degree is literally just a filter for jumping up on listings for recruiters. I came across Scrimba in fall of last year. It was a game changer for my style of learning. I am finally really understanding and building things on my own. I think with ADHD if things don't come quick it makes it hard to stay focused and I end up skipping ahead, literally learning React before I even had the basics of Javascript down. This was a huge mistake on my part. I also didn't realize just how much I didn't know with HTML and CSS. I thought it was silly to study but I was so incredibly wrong. I just feels good to finally feel comfortable and confident moving forward. If anyone else out there has ADHD I highly recommend the Scrimba community. It has helped so much in breaking things down but keeping me engaged.
@DanClapp
My problem right now is that I do projects, but a lot of them are tutorial based. I do my best to customize or personalize them to the best of my ability, but some of the things that I want to actually do seem really far off. For example, I know someone that has a business that they would like to set up online, and it would be so amazing to build an ecommerce site for them, but I haven't even learned how to set up the backend, and setting up stripe alone just doesn't make sense to me right now 😭 Just gonna have to continue focusing on perfecting event listeners and go from there.
@daphne2185
This was so valuable - thank you Don! I feel really lucky that I'm hearing all of this at the beginning of my coding journey.
@curtisdavis8594
Great topic!! Learn, Train, Apply, Build, and more iterations... Thank You, Don!
@iambecomeLife
I really appreciate your videos man, I'm currently going through a bootcamp and listen to your videos while I code, and you really help me push through the days where I am super frustrated. I love that you are just genuine on what your talk about, its really reassuring. Thank you brother.
@outtabubblegum7034
This video is EXTREMELY underappreciated.
@glrbrasil
I needed this, thanks man! 👊
@corbynaltman1020