How I became a Software Engineer with no CS degree

I went from being unemployed to landing a software developer job in 6 months. This video is about how I became a self-taught software developer and how I learned how to code without a computer science degree or coding bootcamp.

#coding #programming #tech

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📚 Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:26 Backstory
01:27 3 Major Questions
02:00 What do you need to know?
03:35 How and where to learn programming?
06:47 What non-programming things can I do to increase success?
08:45 Links & Outro

🔖 Topics Covered
- Self taught programming
- How to learn to code?
- How to land a software developer job?
- Do I need a CS degree for tech?
- Key steps for learning to program

[esahoosa]

I’ve been using this roadmap and recommending to other new devs from online open-source discord communities and they love it. The hardest part for me was just closing YouTube immediately and just focusing on dialing the fundamentals of html, css, and js. Once you’ve got these down and a coding environment, frameworks and other ideologies, it all just start clicking and making sense. Thanks for this James.

[TheSoulCrisis]

You're tenacious, smart, diligent, and definitely charismatic in your approach to all of this. Really enjoyed seeing your process, not fun or easy landing tech roles these days and congrats!

[vectoralphaSec]

99% of all self taught software engineers seem to be within the Web dev industry. I never hear anyone self taught go into Embedded software, Application software, Game development, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, or any other type of software development and software engineering. Only Web development i wonder why??

[darkersideoftaoo]

Thanks for making this video for people like us, you gave me lots of hope.

[mrgamer-luim]

Thank you very much man I'm 16 years old just graduated high school been programming for 5 years and I want to get into software engineering I keep seeing stuff about job market on youtube but I am not letting that stop me from getting a software engineering job cause I'm really passionate about I started from like I was 11 years old. I've actually built projects and I am still working on more

[justicetrace]

Thank you for the advice! Completely new to programming and on my own learning journey to become a developer! (:

[naturalista.]

Great break down! I asked similar questions similar from these in one of your other videos. You've just answered it here. Thank you!!!

[omi_khan]

Absolutely loved your nodejs crash course dude. Subbed!

[sarahjeantalley]

Thank you! I am too in a foreign country, no income… going through Permanent Residency in USA (I’m Canadian) been married to a US Citizen for 6 years now. So here I am! ❤🎉

[LawGarithmic]

Thanks for the content! 😃 Any chance you can do a video going more in depth on how you used LinkedIn and the language you used on your messages and emails? Might be really helpful for people struggling with this.

[Quantumtrix]

Bro you're not describing software engineering. You're describing coding. It's like the difference between a mechanic but a mechanical engineer.

[amj.composer]

You're so fkn cool lol. You've "cracked" the system. I've learnt so much

[NrOx]

Thanks for the video's bro. It's quite motivating. I'm currently trying to switch to SWE from Carpentry at age 30. I'm quite a bit into Javascript, so I guess I'll put together some projects soon. I'm looking forward to that, Javascript has been quite... dense, so I'll be happy to just write code for a change. Btw, you sound kiwi, are you working in the country?

[brianbrian]

Thanks for the great info! Was your 1st job offer remote? If not, did you have to move? Which city? How much salary did they offer? These are things many YouTube audiences would be interested in knowing. Thanks!

[kaitocity]

In your roadmap do you recommend following each section step by step? Or are they simply sources of information that you find useful for that specific topic? I'm a bit confused if I should interpret each item within the section as a step to follow or if it is a source of information.

For example in the frontend frameworks section you placed FullStackOpen last, do you recommend doing the curriculum after everything you listed above? You mention FSO again in the backend section so it confuses me a bit as in theory I would have already done it, so I think I'm misunderstanding.

[x-]

whats your view on paying for Codecademy? and taking. their frontend engineer path?

[tiffanyalberti]

Is anyone here a software engineer without a degree?? Did you actually do it?

[davidpayne]

yes but you have a bachelors in engineering so this feels misleading. you were always a leg up from a self taught developer.