5 Things I Wish I Knew at my FIRST Software Engineer Job | Self Taught Programmer Tips

I came into my first software engineering job basically knowing nothing. I'd written a few Python scripts, I had done a few data analysis projects, and I'd built some simple web apps all by myself with a few different programming languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, worked with some Django, some node, some Mathematica and Matlab. I had taken one programming course in college that was it. I never even touched object-oriented programming in that course.

But I got a full time job as a software engineer anyway!

So while a degree is great, if you don't have one, it's possible to have a career as a software engineer. Coding bootcamps and self-teaching is possible!

Where should you start if you want to learn to code?

I loved the Python for Everybody Specialization on Coursera for your first programming course!
https://imp.i384100.net/a1yWOZ

For go, I recommend the Tour of Go:
https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

And the book The Go Programming Language:
https://amzn.to/3eTSQJL

I also really recommend the book Clean Code:
https://amzn.to/3kv2yDs

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Here's what I really wished I knew my first year of my software engineering job. I was completely self taught so there was a LOT to learn.

00:00 My coding background

00:35 School does not prepare you for the reality of being a software engineer, so you’re really not that far behind people who actually have a Computer Science Degree.

02:45 Your job as a junior engineer is to ask questions and absorb as much knowledge as you can. You are not annoying people.

04:50 It will take you about 6 months to ramp up and be independent.

07:07 Take breaks!!!

09:01 You have to keep learning, and build that learning into your schedule.

It'll be hard, and you'll get frustrated. But keep at it!

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