The Importance of Specialization in Coding

Many people want to learn everything, which is impossible. Pick a tech stack and learn as much as you can about that group of technologies. It will make you more valuable than being a jack of all trades.

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[fifthavenue]

According to LinkedIn job postings, I have to be an expert on literally everything

[dtwelve]

Brad is so humble, he actually knows a lot about a lot.

[fszotyi]

I have started with your Laravel crash course back in 2017. Learned a lot from you, then started my own learning projects in laravel, but kept my job. Finally I got a developer position in 2022, learned vue and here I am.
Now i am a developer thanks to your work also, you helped me, to make all this possible, through your tutorials. Thank you Brad. You are awesome! 🙇

[DennisIvy]

Dude your looking younger and better looking than ever! Sharp man, proud of you. Good info as well 💪

[daliborpetric]

TRaversy media tutorials gave me chance to get a job 6 years ago with that knowlege. Im now senior developer, and i can't enough say THANK YOU BRAD!

[Suresh-iutx]

Avg fresher job posting - 5 years experience in full stack, cloud, ai, ml, devops, deep learning, computer vision, nlp

[ianfrye]

I think more important than anything is focusing on the fundamentals such as Objects, Classes, Variables, Arrays - how to manipulate data, fetch data, async and concurrent programming - It was so much easier for me to pick up a new technology once I learned the fundamentals. I learned Typescript and Java and was able to write a program in flutter after watching one tutorial and picking up the docs. That's another things, get really good at reading docs.

[fahimsautomation]

I thought I could be a jack of all trades, learning Python, DS, ML, Web development, and PHP for WordPress. But your video came at the right time and made me realize What I want to do with that tech? Is it for getting a job? Or Building the next Unicorn. It is not about how many tools and tech I know. Instead, it is about learning specific stacks, deep diving, and exploring the abundance of library and building projects.

I also realize that small or big projects strengthen my logical ability. That's How I can be specialized.

[poznianski]

Very important topic, especially for beginners who might feel overwhelmed. Good that you're pointing it out.

[slalithprasad]

The first honest YouTube tech content creator?

[eczeeofficial]

I've been following you for years now and man you bacame JACKED!!! I'm really happy for you Brad! Hope you're doing well now and thanks for all the effort and amzing content you've put out for us strugglers! Love from Italy

[DannyMexen]

My career made me a generalist (I was required to know a little bit of everything) and so I became a manager. Management became my specialty.

I can have a meaningful conversation with anyone on the technical team.

It makes them feel like I know everything but I don’t nor do I pretend to. I simply do my best to enable theirs.

[zxyi]

I am in my 40s and now I am deep diving into Javascript because it is the language of the web. Thanks Brad for all your worthy efforts. 😊

[princechime]

Brad I just want to thank you for every single content you’ve ever put out here.

When I started out in 2019 I didn’t know where to go or focus on but one way or another I found myself loving the Cloud space and I’m liking it even the more in 2024. The experience I gained doing your courses in JavaScript has played a huge impact in my understanding of things related to programming.

Your point on specialising in an area one loves is really key.
Thank you once again. I may never meet you but trust me I’ve taken a tonne of great stuff from your channel and I’m not where I used to be in 2019.

[code_ho]

Code is my lifeblood. Even as a student wasy back 2008, I was hooked, building my own homelab from scratch. Back then, it was portable servers(slackOS and even make my own distro + apache or nginx), DLLs, and programming libraries on a USB drive and CD's – a far cry from today's package managers and Docker. I've rebuilt that lab countless times depends on a project, and to this day, I'm still shoulder-deep in code at any languages, scaling massive datasets for AI projects. The truth is, there's no one-size-fits-all approach. Generalists and specialists both bring value, and finding your own sweet spot is key.

[ArjunSingh-qtjn]

being following you for last 6-5 years, you looking in best shape, thank you for everything!

[ultrasys]

Edifying video. You probably don’t know (because it really doesn’t make any difference in the grand scheme of things) but I watch your videos just for the fun of them, even though I’m not interested in most of the subjects you present (the specific technologies, I mean), but I lear A LOT from your presentations.

In the recent past (for me, at least, since 10 years is nothing from my perspective) I watched closely your health bump, if you know what I mean, and was glad to see everything worked out okay, so, yeah, you’ve got real people that are more concerned with you, than with your videos. I’m sure the great majority of your audience shares my feelings that you’re a real nice guy IRL and thet you’re not into this just for the likes and monetizing.

One thing I can clearly observe, though, is that you’re so focused even being into an apparent unfocused world, that you don’t devote much attention to fixing your environs (the computer one, I mean - we can see that your room is very well equipped and comfortable). I often find myself asking if you don’t change your fonts because you don’t bother, of because you actually like them as they are hahahaha

You’re one of those YT heavy lifters, Brad. Thanks for that.

[AgozieOkechukwu]

Absolutely true. The approach I use for this whole learning thing is understanding the difference between mission and methods. The mission of coding is data and information sharing or manipulation, the methods includes all the different language used to achieve that mission. No point learning different languages that literally solve the same problem. Identify the foundation of coding, then limit your learning of methods to your goal, because methods will always change, but the mission will always remain.

[chivicks_hazard]

Thank you for the reminder Brad.

It's not easy to stick to things as an entry-level developer with all the hype around various technologies but at if one is able to create a roadmap for himself/herself, it will be easier to scale through.

Thank you once more for always giving us meaningful content.

[nammi]

Your channel is an emotion, dude thanks a lot for your contribution
7 yrs ago I started my coding journey watching your channel for Python & JS, now I'm working at FAANG making top $$
Coming from a poor family your channel helped me a lot to learn things from free, and after getting money I was able to support my brother education & clear off my parents debts
Thanks 🙏🙏