Learn to code with an unfair advantage.

You could consider this a part 2 of the video "How I would learn to code if I could start over". In this video I discuss the second part of the puzzle, frameworks. Which ones should you learn and why learning the wrong ones will hurt your career.

📚Chapters📚
0:00 - Intro
1:34 - Framework Fever
3:03 - Don't become a Philosopher
4:00 - Learn the thing before the thing
5:55 - Should you learn Rust?
7:25 - Adoption Curve
9:15 - Analyzing 14M job listings
10:27 - A good framework
10:57 - I hired a 17 year old coding genius
12:46 - Sponsored Segment
14:48 - Final words

[JasonGoodison]

System.out.printLn("Sorry about the delay in uploading! Going to start targeting a video every 2 weeks!");
BTW don't use Redux that was just an example - React has built in tools now

[ballman]

Main takeaway: Don't just learn frameworks, understand why you use them.

[joel]

Thank you for baking subtitles directly into the videos. You are a blessing

[TheBoBuilder]

"Centering a div" As someone that focused on learning back-end and then trying to learn some front end (bc I suck at it pretty bad), this resonates with me so much. Im so glad Flexbox and grid exists lol

[ExiledDelver]

Oh my god dude, I almost fell out of my chair when you talked about "why are you making a portfolio" what is this trap people fall into? When I was looking for work literally EVERYONE I knew was making a portfolio, with all the same stuff on it from the same youtube video It MADE NO SENSE to me. SO I made a really lame little browser game that showed WHO I AM I landed a job no sweat with this! I know people that spent building their portfolio where wordpress could do this in an hour 🤣

[efficientapp]

Watched this twice. Once myself and again with my brother who's an engineer. Super engaging and there are many learnings in this. Feel like I have a great idea of where to start (if I were starting my programming journey today). Well done my friend!

[alemutasa]

I'll be forever grateful to my CS professor that taught us what a program and programming is by making us compile and execute our hello world C program with gcc. It's clunky and it's unnecessary when working with real world applications, but sure gives a programmer the perspective of a framework

[aritzolaba]

Man, you have given the best explanation I have heard about this "framework fever feeling". Few people talks about the roots and whys of what's behind. Thanks for this, great job!

[davidfilestra]

this is fantastic, it never ends, so many useless youtubers about productivity and coding, when the main ideas of this disciplines can be absorbed when making a couple of projects and reading 2-3 books that inspire you

[brianfreeman]

Hi Jason. I want to learn everything that I can in order to do well at this. I'm literally starting from scratch. And I'm going through everything that you recommend in that order. I don't know if I am any good at this at all. But I want to learn it, because I always have the most randomly great ideas. And I have no idea how to create them or pitch them, but I am willing to learn it and give it my all. You're an inspiration man.

[petrus]

The more fundamental way of putting this is, that universal, basic concepts and principles are more important than individual programming languages. If you want to learn any one single language, I would recommend FORTH. Not because many people still really use it, but because FORTH will teach you the underlying reality behind ALL programming languages, in a much clearer way than virtually any contemporary language. Don't learn FORTH to use it as a contemporary language; learn FORTH to help you understand other languages.

[krishrong]

Thank you so much, I've started to learn programming for a while, but I always get struck by choosing which language is the most popular. But now I know that is not about the language, but the programming principle's or algorithm that 's matter.

[daze]

It's nearly impossible getting a job knowing a single language with a single framework. All these jobs want "Looking for a python, c#, and js developer with django, react, and .net framework experience. Java knowledge is a plus!"

[victornikolov]

Using an old tech has an advantage.
Fewer and fewer people can hack it. As enough time passed, nobody could do it.

[ourtyive]

1:20 Not you wearing a mic, while holding the unplugged one lol

[williammortimer]

Your video is so interesting that I didn't even notice you were holding a spatula like your mic until the 9 minute mark. As someone with OCD, I'll tell you, that's an accomplishment.

[gideonshawana]

Exactly!!!!. I was stuck with the hello world bubble until I learnt how to use frameworks

[readywhen]

5:58 I thought you were gonna say "Today it's rust, tomorrow it's a bust"

[beastnighttv]

0:30 this was a joke as it should be "printLn" instead of "printIn" (sorry I had to do it ;-; I havent used Java a lot tho... only used it to make Minecraft Mods ;-;)

[dan_rad]

While it may be good advice to start with Python or JS you have to also look at the supply side of the supply demand curve. Learning a more niche language means you have a more niche skillset. Learning a newer niche language means you're not competing with the people with 30 years experience.