Mindset of Successful Programmers

Hi all. I discuss a few mindset changes that helped me learn to code and become a better programmer and Software Developer.

I hope you find value in this.
Music
Lo Fi Type Beat - Blue Moon (copyright free)

[NicholasRenotte]

The beauty of coding is that you can either achieve the end result or you can’t….yet.

Every time I freak out and think “I have NFI what how this works” I just go and spend a morning building stuff. More often than not I hit this *ding* moment where everything comes to light. Listen to the advice in this video, FOCUS ON PRACTICE.

[mandelkuchen]

1. Focus on practice
2. Ego is the Enemy
3. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

[Beocaaa]

Getting to the point where I can build an app and just listen to music without pausing and following a tutorial was a game changer.

[stachowi]

As a self-taught web developer, who owns a software company, I approve this message 100%.

[duttaoindril]

Honestly, the list at the end, it may be what's expected of junior developers, but it's actually what senior developers do as well. We've just done that loop so much and so often it "looks" like we've known everything all along. The reality is, we've just gotten really fast at applying first principles and fundamentals, learning something new, and quickly figure it out - using whatever resources we have. Google, co-workers, tutorials/books, and now GPT.

[KidSimba]

Perfect. I've been a developer for 30+ years, everything in this video is spot on. One of my first tutors said "If you're not learning something new every day in a development role then there's something wrong". Great video post.

[Swenthorian]

Another point on ego: don't be attached to your code. It's *just* code. You or someone else will change it. It's ephemeral.
One thing that helped me get past my ego, is knowing that everything I did was saved in the `git` repo. When I had to delete something I worked hard on, I was able to take solace in that.
New devs at work often take offense when you change their code, and that's not helpful for them or for the project. It's just code; it's just code.

[coderknight-X]

What I learned from this video :

1. Focus on practice not theory ! -
10, 000 lines of code ❤
2. Start by making small websites !
3. Just to be comfortable with being uncomfortable - U will never know enough
4. You will never master coding rather you will understand them vaguely!
5. Know certain part of the domain and constantly learn nd build a bunch of projects.

[shiningdragon]

Man as someone who's dev morale has dropped like crazy in the last year, I need to hear this. Thank you.

[etoyonker]

Thank you for this video, it's so accurate! When I was a trainee in a company I was afraid to google or even simply ask a question from senior, but now I understand that it's literally one of the most basics things you need to do

[johnclaius]

You are great! Keep the videos flowing. It helps us to keep the work on learning, programming and creating.

[SingTingz]

It's definitely hard to unlearn the habits of the fixed mindset and adopt the growth mindset because of how society focuses so much on the end result than the process, but I'm getting there

[aaaaaaaaa]

Every bit of advice you presented is, remarkably, exactly what I ended up learning the hard way throughout my CS education. If only I could have seen this video many years ago, it would have saved me so much time and unnecessary stress. :)

[tizrim.]

" and if this video reaches, let's say...10 likes" broke my heart man, you deserve more. Well spoken and clear information, Thank you :)

[BrianHHough]

Really love the 10k lines of code!! The more you build, the more you really understand how it works and why. Great video!!

[scuffyxd]

This is like the perfect key for self taught programer. I like how you brought up about being in a stuck concept situation. I knew right away once I was stuck and learing that specific part of syntax; I was wasting my time and delaying my goals. So I learn just by creating projects uses those concepts and understand them what they do. And I agree about being not a master in coding. Senior and Junior developer wont able to master and can't be perfect by memorizing everything. They will always part of syntax that you forget and its completley normal. But once you research it again; it'll help you remeber it quick than processing before casue you have learned it. This well put.

[LZRdigital]

Your videos are amazing. The length of them is perfect and they are all straight to the point no bs. We need more creators like this. ❤

[Terminator-htsx]

this video definitely spoke to me as i’m taking my first programming class as a noob and ive definitely struggled with my ego and the fear of being uncomfortable in class as normally classes are easy and i feel confident in my ability to absorb the information but in my programming class i feel like an idiot and am constantly uncomfortable and intimidated from the fact i don’t know the answers most of the time to the questions the professor asks us. i’ve skipped a lot of the classes due to this (also a lot of social anxiety) but i guess that’s where the real learning happens. pushing our boundaries

[devanshtrivedi]

This is exactly what I needed man. I damn near have quit coding these days. Thanks for the vid fr brother. We as a community surely do appreciate it❤

[Dreamingofrainbows]

I needed to hear this! I am on my own journey on becoming an engineer and really feeling overwhelmed right now and pretty terrible at this craft, this has sorta cleared the air a bit, thanks man!