Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt A career as a freelancer is the reality for 35% of the United States’ workforce. It is designed for people that desire more freedom, or feel working for an employer limits their ability to be creative. Freelancing is a viable option for programmers interested in earning additional income while employed or starting a full-time business in the future. Both are viable options wi...
Sep 04, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Getting stuck is never fun. Especially when you’re working really hard. And yet, I find that this happens to people preparing for coding interviews all the time. You put in consistent work. You’ve gone through hundreds of practice problems and block out an hour every day to study. And suddenly... You forget everything. Most of the time, it happens during coding interviews bec...
Aug 28, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt When you're looking to market yourself as a programmer, you have a lot of different paths to follow and a lot of different techniques to implement. One of them is building an online portfolio. How does an online portfolio work for a programmer? Well, in your online portfolio you should place all of your projects, things you've worked on, etc. However... How much is an online ...
Aug 21, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt https://simpleprogrammer.com/yt/flowstate How To Get Into Flow State 🧠💡 | Become A Productive BEAST! Flow state is something super important for programmers and, those who have entered this state know what I'm talking about. In flow, every action, every decision, arises seamlessly from the last. In this state, we are so focused on the task at hand that all else falls away. ...
Aug 13, 2019•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt When leaving the workforce, whether it be to raise a child, take a break, or take care of a parent, the employment gap leaves hiring managers with questions. One of their biggest questions: do you still have what it takes to be an integral part of their team? The answer often is yes, but how do you convince the employer to take a chance on an interview and potential career tr...
Jul 31, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Many bootcamps claim or imply that you can become a professional developer in three weeks, 12 weeks, or perhaps six months when you take their courses. But most of these 90%+ job placement claims are largely unaudited. After years of helping students get through coding bootcamps, I know exactly their biggest mistakes. You can expect to join a coding bootcamp and leave as a fu...
Jul 24, 2019•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Blockchain is one of the hottest skills in tech right now. Don’t believe me? Hired.com’s 2019 State of Software Engineers report that shows that global demand for Blockchain developers is “through the roof”, growing at a rapid rate of 517% year over year! Blockchain developers earn $155,000 per year on average in cities like San Francisco, and you’re more likely to earn highe...
Jul 18, 2019•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Being a new programmer means getting your word out there, sending your CV to a lot of different companies and hoping you'd get called. However, the good news comes in: You've received two proposals. One for a startup and one for a big company. How do you choose between both? What are the pros and cons of each programming job? Both working for a startup and for a big company h...
Jul 10, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Have you ever shifted your mindset as a programmer when it comes to finding a programming job? Picture this: When I was starting out my career, I helped a lot of developers find programming jobs... Some of them, find the wrong ones. Despite you thinking that you just need the money, there is much more into play when it comes to finding a programming job. One of the things I a...
Jul 03, 2019•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Getting a job as a remote programmer is the dream of a lot of programmers. They dream of working from home, having the flexibility to work when they want, how they want, etc... Oh, and I almost forgot! Working from their underwears. So, while this might not be as good as it may seem, today I'm going to show you how you could get a remote job as a programmer. I'm also going to...
Jun 26, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt You’ve decided to learn to code! Filled with excitement at finding a new career, you quickly sign up for a Udemy course and register at freeCodeCamp. Feeling optimistic and eager, you sit down and start going through the material that evening. In the next several weeks, you fall into a pattern of studying coding till late at night, then waking up early the next morning to go ...
Jun 19, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt "Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Its high-level built in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for Rapid Application Development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together. Python's simple, easy to learn synta...
Jun 12, 2019•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt In programming, we hear so much about what tech stack we need to learn or what the new hot technology is. What we do not talk about much is the mental health aspect behind how you can be a better programmer. There are basically one main thing developers can do in order to improve their confidence as a developer and basically tackle the imposter syndrome: fake it till you make...
Jun 05, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Whether you’re currently pursuing a degree in computer science, an aspiring self-taught developer, or a coding boot camp student, mastering the craft of programming is a perpetual struggle. Technology is changing faster and faster every day and us, as software developers, need to be able to cope up with all of this if we want to stay relevant. This is definitely bad news if y...
Jun 03, 2019•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt As programmers, it’s our job to be at our computer for extended periods of time. And, if you’re anything like us, the longer you sit there, the worse your posture becomes. Without even realizing it, you begin to extend your neck, bringing your face closer to the screen. You hunch your shoulders forward and slump in your chair. But, not only that... There are a LOT of related ...
May 22, 2019•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt When I first started out my career as a software developer, I didn’t have a degree. I took my first real job when I was on summer break from my first year of college. By the time the summer was up and it was time to enroll back in school, I found that the salary I was making from that summer job was about what I had expected to make when I graduated college—only I didn’t have...
May 15, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Have you ever heard that coding and programming are not the same thing? But, how can that be possible? Well, in this video I came across a very interesting text, which I've decided to share with you. in this text, the author stated that programming/software development is not the same as coding. And well, if you know me, whenever I find something interesting, I create a video...
May 08, 2019•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Chances are you are preparing for a JavaScript coding interview and now you're faced with preparing for a lot of different JS interview questions. JavaScript is a high-level programming language, probably one of the most used programming languages in the world right now. It can be used to program the web browser or even servers. To know the importance of JavaScript, disable J...
May 01, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt You're a developer. You finally made it, learned to code and now you're living the dream of building software and becoming a programmer. But... You feel like you could do more. You feel stuck. You have built a few applications and put them in the app store, you have your GitHub constantly updated... You're doing it all right but... It still feels like you can't advance. "What...
Apr 26, 2019•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Does GitHub matter if you're a developer in job-hunting mode? Will GitHub help you when it comes to the job searching process? More and more often, recruiters are demanding more from developers when it comes to the hiring process. After all, they need to know if the person they are hiring really knows how to code. One of the questions that often comes to developers, as a rela...
Apr 24, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt I got a question today about my billing rate, so whether it’s real or not and I found a few questions like this. I just want to say upfront that when I say something or do something or do something like if I post on my blog post or if it’s on a marketing message or an email or something, it’s generally true. When I first started out I think I was charging like $30 or $40 an h...
Apr 17, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Recently I came across a Quora question that was asking "I'm A Programmer and I wanna quit, what should I do?". Believe me. many programmers go through it. Programming by itself is a hard thing. It requires focus and it has, indeed, a big biiiig learning curve. That is one of the reasons why so many developers get frustrated in actually trying to program and create some kind ...
Apr 10, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt You're going for your next coding interview for a node.js job. Then, you should expect lots of different questions regarding node.js. What do you do then? Why don't so many developers still don't prepare for questions about programming language and stuff? Node.js framework is actually not a framework or a library, but a runtime environment, based on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript eng...
Apr 08, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt If you work for some company writing code, you've probably dealt with code reviewers. These code reviewers aim to find flaws in your code, usually with the objective of improving and making the overall system works better. However, this is not always what happens. Sometimes, these code reviewers are complete idiots and they tell you nothing that matters. They don't make effor...
Apr 03, 2019•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt As soon as I decided to change my career as a developer and become a web dev. I have been rejected by almost 30 companies, sent hundreds of job applications and literally got almost no response back. It has generally been the same story. I would breeze through phone rounds, do well enough in on-site interviews that I would have a lot of hope, and then I’d get a friendly rejec...
Apr 01, 2019•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt This might be your roadmap to maximizing your salary as a software developer. The million-dollar question is: How do you negotiate your salary without losing the job offer or seeming greedy? Ashley did it, but first she had to avoid the most common salary negotiation mistake... Most developers fall into different traps when it comes to negotiating a job salary. It might be du...
Mar 31, 2019•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Programming Reality Vs Expectations (What You Think Vs. How It Actually IS!) Programming reality can be very different from its expectations. #programming #programmingreality #programmingexpectations If you're a new developer, or even an aspiring developer trying to break into tech, you probably think that, by becoming a programmer, you'll be coding all day long, writing code...
Mar 24, 2019•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Don't learn to code in 2019. Learn to problem solve instead. Does it sound like something that most people don't talk about? I bet it does. But this is definitely the reality. I often see this with newbie and experienced developers. They try to learn all the possible outcomes of coding, learn to program in a hundred different languages... Only to start feeling overwhelmed. An...
Feb 27, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast You are looking for a job but you do not know anyone. You see all of these developers getting their programming jobs before you, and you simply start to ask yourself: How come that they get these programming jobs and I'm able to get none? So you are looking for a new programming job, where do you go first? Indeed? Monster? Hacker News? You sent all of these programming resumes but you're able to get no responses back. What do you do? This happened to me. I sent all of those resumes but I was abl...
Feb 11, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Coding interview preparation takes a lot more than just understanding how to write code. When it comes to a technical interview, nerves kick in and you, as a programmer, need to be calm and confident. What most people don't do, however, is preparing for a coding interview the right way. Don't get me wrong... Technical skills are definitely important. But your performance on a...
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