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What language/s did you teach yourself during that several year learning time? What did you choose to focus on? (I noticed this: ReactJS/Node-Express/MySQL/Pyt

What language/s did you teach yourself during that several year learning time? What did you choose to focus on? (I noticed this: ReactJS/Node-Express/MySQL/Python in your profile, but I'm not sure if that's what you started with)

MaximumYComb 6y ago
His stack indicates web dev, which is the typical path for self taught programmers. Plenty of work available that pays more than minimum wage.
- jcun4128 6y ago
  Yeah I have not really gone down into the C/C++ that level and I haven't touched the Microsoft side eg. .NET Closest thing for "native" is using the wrappers for JS which for my needs works. I did have to force myself to figure out how to get a basic Android widget (Java) to work that was tough.
jcun4128 6y ago
Short answer: at the time learned LAMP stack, able to build interfaces, auth, ssl, setup servers, make db schemas/make APIs, etc... I remember I had to learn how DNS worked haha. I wasn't learning specifically to get hired. My first stuff was trying to build high traffic websites/make money through ads but my ideas were dumb. But I still learned in the process how to build websites. Full answer https://i.imgur.com/uAGMHkQ.png https://i.imgur.com/uAGMHkQ.png First full time in-office job 2018
- adventured 6y ago
  I appreciate the story. Congrats on the excellent progress!
  - jcun4128 6y ago
    Thanks, yeah I am still not secure, always fear of incompetence. Not having a degree is a fear. But I just have to keep learning/save/make more money ha. Get that burn rate, entrepreneur, FiRe, etc... I'm fortunate to have gotten into this field though and enjoy it personally.
    - simonh 6y ago
      Really cool story. One of the best engineers I ever worked for started as a psychiatric nurse. He got to know the guys in the computer department at his hospital and got a job doing desktop support. When he hired me, he was running application support at a fin tech startup. He wrote their distributed application monitoring system from scratch in Perl (this was a while ago when that actually made sense).
      - jcun4128 6y ago
        > distributed application monitoring system Dang that sounds nuts, I haven't made anything nearly that complex haha. There is something about architecting something and seeing it work "on its own". It's a cool feeling.

MaximumYComb 6y ago

His stack indicates web dev, which is the typical path for self taught programmers. Plenty of work available that pays more than minimum wage.

jcun4128 6y ago
Yeah I have not really gone down into the C/C++ that level and I haven't touched the Microsoft side eg. .NET Closest thing for "native" is using the wrappers for JS which for my needs works. I did have to force myself to figure out how to get a basic Android widget (Java) to work that was tough.

jcun4128 6y ago

Short answer: at the time learned LAMP stack, able to build interfaces, auth, ssl, setup servers, make db schemas/make APIs, etc... I remember I had to learn how DNS worked haha. I wasn't learning specifically to get hired. My first stuff was trying to build high traffic websites/make money through ads but my ideas were dumb. But I still learned in the process how to build websites. Full answer https://i.imgur.com/uAGMHkQ.png https://i.imgur.com/uAGMHkQ.png First full time in-office job 2018

adventured 6y ago
I appreciate the story. Congrats on the excellent progress!
- jcun4128 6y ago
  Thanks, yeah I am still not secure, always fear of incompetence. Not having a degree is a fear. But I just have to keep learning/save/make more money ha. Get that burn rate, entrepreneur, FiRe, etc... I'm fortunate to have gotten into this field though and enjoy it personally.
  - simonh 6y ago
    Really cool story. One of the best engineers I ever worked for started as a psychiatric nurse. He got to know the guys in the computer department at his hospital and got a job doing desktop support. When he hired me, he was running application support at a fin tech startup. He wrote their distributed application monitoring system from scratch in Perl (this was a while ago when that actually made sense).
    - jcun4128 6y ago
      > distributed application monitoring system Dang that sounds nuts, I haven't made anything nearly that complex haha. There is something about architecting something and seeing it work "on its own". It's a cool feeling.