500 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bullen 29 Mar \ on: How to prepare for a coding career? devs
Code.
Just code.
Like, a lot.
How?
Well, do projects.
What projects?
Good tools, stupid ideas, fun things etc...
Just code.
Personally I did
- My personal website
- My bands website
- A shitty social media thing, kind of Facebook but dumb
- Another shitty social media thing in another framework
- Some Rock Paper Scissors MMORPG which constantly broke because I tried to write all multiplayer things from scratch in c++ haha, fuck me that sucked 😅
- Some other shitty web site
- A program to help me write my blog posts, in my json format, for my website
- Some games with different tools
- Some android apps, one larger exercise tracker
- A million smaller scripts / tools
And then I also did a lot of competetive programming and things like
- Adventofcode (this is the best)
- Codingame
- Kattis
- And a million other of these types of things
Plus, I did join different hackathons like gamejams et.c and I really recommend going to these because of how it is
- Fun
- Networking
- Networking
Then you can read some books. I highly recommend
- Clean code
Learn to write clean code. Learn to write tests. Learn to write simple makefiles to run maintenance things.
Just. Code.
Like, a lot.
But most importantly: Have fun.