qtguru:
Awesome, just know how to self learn and research, the Nigerian in us want others to teach us than to teach ourselves and consistency is a major key too. Some people play software engineer until they meet real problems. Learn to read and expect hard work and study and you will get better. Read about the 10000 hour Mastery resources too.

Most NL peeps in my opinion don't want to do the hard work. They want the benefits , those who are succeeding will know the amount of resources they had to go through.

GREATIGBOMAN:
Another one... u want to work at google but confusing yourself either to learn Wordpress, Php, C# D# N++, break into gigs market.

No laser focus on algorithms which is a must in such companies and like what they actually really need....


Failed before started no offense....



Pipe dreams.

Don't worry, your thread will die a natural death.




U can get offended anyways.

AlchemyOfCodes:
This post is all about my programming journey. I am just a young fella without a CS degree who wants to work at Google. This sounds crazy? Yeah. But, Wait-Danny Thompson worked at Google without a CS degree, maybe I am not being unrealistic then. Oh! I forgot, Danny Thompson is an American......

I will be documenting my journey to becoming a potential world-class web developer. I hope to finally get to work at Google at the end of this thread no matter how long....

I believe in the mantra- " Aim for the moon, if you miss it, you might hit a star".

I will be glad if the programming gurus in the house can be part of my history. Advise and encouragements and even scathing criticisms are allowed.

AlchemyOfCodes:
No offense boss. Thats the whole point though- to get feedbacks; constructive and destructive.... at least I have been able to pick one or two from your submission. LASER FOCUS ON ALGORITHM!
But you know learning tech is expensive.... epileptic power supply, costly data charge and all of that. So at least I need sth to keep me going.

Concerning the algorithm shit... I plan to practice at least 3hackerrank question per day.. and purchase the leetcode premium.. Heck I need money again for all of that!!!. Anyways I started reading cornmen algorithm, already downloaded cracking the coding interview. Would have loved to start practicing on leetcode and hackerrank pending the time I get a laptop, but those sites are frustrating and are only good on desktop site.

Nota Bene: Reading documenations for those long tortuous months without an avenue to practice on my phone didn't dissuade me, watching YouTube tutorials and replicating them in a notebook and whiteboard did not dissuade, heck putting my first class degree on the line in school did not dissuade me...... Your post can't! Never! Not when I will be getting a laptop soon
I have come way too far...
Like I said no matter how long it takes.....Am not saying am going to get into Google overnight.

NOTA BENE: THIS THREAD AINT DIEING ANYTIME SOON

AlchemyOfCodes:
This post is all about my programming journey. I am just a young fella without a CS degree who wants to work at Google. This sounds crazy? Yeah. But, Wait-Danny Thompson worked at Google without a CS degree, maybe I am not being unrealistic then. Oh! I forgot, Danny Thompson is an American......

I will be documenting my journey to becoming a potential world-class web developer. I hope to finally get to work at Google at the end of this thread no matter how long....

I believe in the mantra- " Aim for the moon, if you miss it, you might hit a star".

I will be glad if the programming gurus in the house can be part of my history. Advise and encouragements and even scathing criticisms are allowed.

ichidodo:
Why don't you use coding to solve life's problem which could include yours and others? Hell, you could even make more money than coding for Google or anyone for that matter, you could even code assets that you can handover to your descendants. And the beautiful thing is you don't have to bust your ass half or less than half as much when you go that route. Talk about wetin dey for Sokoto, e dey for Shokoto.

tensazangetsu20:


Entrepreneurship is not that glamarous and the fact that you can code doesn't mean you would be a great entrepreneur. There's a lot to know like sales, marketing, assembling a team. You also need funds to push your product into the hands of end users. Kuda has lost over 6 billion naira and most of that money was on advertising. Someone who struggled to save a laptop where do you want him to get the funds to build a product, launch, get users and scale.

tensazangetsu20:


Entrepreneurship is not that glamarous and the fact that you can code doesn't mean you would be a great entrepreneur. There's a lot to know like sales, marketing, assembling a team. You also need funds to push your product into the hands of end users. Kuda has lost over 6 billion naira and most of that money was on advertising. Someone who struggled to save a laptop where do you want him to get the funds to build a product, launch, get users and scale.

tensazangetsu20:


Entrepreneurship is not that glamarous and the fact that you can code doesn't mean you would be a great entrepreneur. There's a lot to know like sales, marketing, assembling a team. You also need funds to push your product into the hands of end users. Kuda has lost over 6 billion naira and most of that money was on advertising. Someone who struggled to save a laptop where do you want him to get the funds to build a product, launch, get users and scale.

JoyousFurnitire:


Some of us are wise, some other people overwise

tensazangetsu20:


I used to run a business and it's not something I will advise anyone to get into as a young person especially in Nigeria where's there's no support from either government or family. Work and work and work and won't even see up to 50k a month whereas there are people working jobs that are paying them 10 million naira a month salary. Best to use your younger years to build a career and your network and you can consider that path when you are much older and wiser. The most successful entrepreneurs are over 40. The younger ones are outliers.

JoyousFurnitire:


Absolutely! It's not easy especially when you have people helping you. There are months you won't even pay yourself just so your workers are okay.

tensazangetsu20:


Yeah if I spent all that time on a reasonable career I could have gone very far.

tensazangetsu20:


Entrepreneurship is not that glamarous and the fact that you can code doesn't mean you would be a great entrepreneur. There's a lot to know like sales, marketing, assembling a team. You also need funds to push your product into the hands of end users. Kuda has lost over 6 billion naira and most of that money was on advertising. Someone who struggled to save a laptop where do you want him to get the funds to build a product, launch, get users and scale.

Ajibade123:

read the article again
most of the money wasn't on advertising

AlchemyOfCodes:
No offense boss. Thats the whole point though- to get feedbacks; constructive and destructive.... at least I have been able to pick one or two from your submission. LASER FOCUS ON ALGORITHM!
But you know learning tech is expensive.... epileptic power supply, costly data charge and all of that. So at least I need sth to keep me going.

Concerning the algorithm shit... I plan to practice at least 3hackerrank question per day.. and purchase the leetcode premium.. Heck I need money again for all of that!!!. Anyways I started reading cornmen algorithm, already downloaded cracking the coding interview. Would have loved to start practicing on leetcode and hackerrank pending the time I get a laptop, but those sites are frustrating and are only good on desktop site.

Nota Bene: Reading documenations for those long tortuous months without an avenue to practice on my phone didn't dissuade me, watching YouTube tutorials and replicating them in a notebook and whiteboard did not dissuade, heck putting my first class degree on the line in school did not dissuade me...... Your post can't! Never! Not when I will be getting a laptop soon
I have come way too far...
Like I said no matter how long it takes.....Am not saying am going to get into Google overnight.

NOTA BENE: THIS THREAD AINT DIEING ANYTIME SOON

qtguru:
Awesome, just know how to self learn and research, the Nigerian in us want others to teach us than to teach ourselves and consistency is a major key too. Some people play software engineer until they meet real problems. Learn to read and expect hard work and study and you will get better. Read about the 10000 hour Mastery resources too.

Most NL peeps in my opinion don't want to do the hard work. They want the benefits , those who are succeeding will know the amount of resources they had to go through.

tensazangetsu20:


Entrepreneurship is not that glamarous and the fact that you can code doesn't mean you would be a great entrepreneur. There's a lot to know like sales, marketing, assembling a team. You also need funds to push your product into the hands of end users. Kuda has lost over 6 billion naira and most of that money was on advertising. Someone who struggled to save a laptop where do you want him to get the funds to build a product, launch, get users and scale.