casablancatoast

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by casablancatoast 2y ago
Recent mature grad, went back to Uni after packing up my eCommerce business I started as a young man. Finally finished and actually struggling to find work, even though my CV rocks and I know I could do the role of most of the companies CEO
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by casablancatoast 3y ago
Thanks for the BAR link, I'm going to share that with someone who'll find it useful. Appreciated!
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by casablancatoast 3y ago
Alright so I'm going to say it: Make a local install please I'm begging you. As a 1-man consultant, I really don't want to: 1. Download docker or some other LAMP stack 2. Compile and run it 3. Launch a local database everytim
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
So for example, creating something in pygame could be useful if you enjoy making games but don't necessarily want to be a game developer, just for the education you will receive via the enjoyment you are having making it?
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
Thank you spenrose. I've bookmarked one of the articles and I'll read that later this evening. It looks interesting.
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
Spent a couple of minutes checking out this resource, and I really appreciate the links tsingy! Thank you. Do you have any other 'intro' links?
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
Thankyou perrygeo, you're solidifying the advice of many other commentors on here and I appreciate that. Do you have any reccomendations?
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
No problem kingkongjaff, I've considered CS50x. I noticed that they've produced CS50P which is what I initially started but then I got analysis-paralysis between CS50x or CS50P and never finished. Which would you reccomend?
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
Really appreciate this feedback gabelschlager, and I've seen mooc.fi a couple of times mentioned. From the other commentors suggestions, it seems that just trying (and doing) to build something would be beneficial.
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
>So don't try to become some idealized and maybe non-existent ideal engineer, but just grow yourself with this new skills and do what works for you! I never considered this, so this is appreciated, and so is the help. I will send yo
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
Thanks mgomez, I think you're onto something. My only difficulty with this would be the concept of 'you don't know what you don't know.
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by casablancatoast 4y ago
Thanks for your reply Overrun11, appreciate this! I had to search what a 'palindrome' is, didn't know this was the word for it! >What exactly is your level of programming knowledge? As another commenter put it, probably in
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Ask HN: Becoming a Software Engineer?
7 points by casablancatoast 4y ago|20 comments