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Topic	Ask an American teacher who left the career to go into web development anything
HanOfTheNekos 02/21/22 7:59:56 AM #36:	PumpkinCoach posted... what would you recommend as a first step for someone with zero background who, just this second, started considering a similar change? like, as fundamental as for even knowing if it's for me. Honestly, codecademy and going through a basic C# or Java course. Just give basic stuff a try, and if your mind starts to think of applications of new coding techniques you learn, explore them! MariaTaylor posted... why are you running This town needs a new comptroller. It's time for a change. banananor posted... first of all, i should've already said congratulations on making the switch- it's a good life. i appreciate the answers. you can rest easy that i don't need the pitch :) are you mostly excited? do you have imposter syndrome? haha, you'd be surprised. the main thing i've learned is that there are a LOT of interesting people out there, and if you're anywhere near friendly, reasonable, intelligent and willing to learn you're kind of a slam dunk. i used to have a lot of imposter syndrome until i started being the official manager for people and dealing with all the different varieties of nonsense i've helped hire a few boot campers, and i think success comes down to screening extra heavily on personality. Having a lot of mentorship/code review available is also mandatory, as is having a lot of doable work for them to grind through. if any of those are missing you need to realize you should be hiring more senior devs or at least college grads (i'd say early stage companies shouldn't even have any juniors) you don't need to answer- and without revealing too much- what do they have you doing? UI, testing, CRUD? just kind of curious. Thanks! I've been enjoying it. I'm a few weeks from my anniversary in the position, actually. I hear of a lot of people having impostor syndrome, but I'm weird in that I don't. I just know if I know how to do something or not, and my team does a good job at supporting me when I say I don't know how to do something. My position is full-stack - data extraction into CRUD processes, programmed in mid-tier to help process and analyze data, for front-end display. --- "Bordate is a pretty shady place, what with the gangs, casinos, evil corporations and water park." - FAHtastic <cite>HanOfTheNekos posted [p:962831946] in Ask an Ame... [t:79907386]...</cite> <quote>PumpkinCoach posted... </cite> <quote>what would you recommend as a first step for someone with zero background who, just this second, started considering a similar change? like, as fundamental as for even knowing if it's for me.</quote> Honestly, codecademy and going through a basic C# or Java course. Just give basic stuff a try, and if your mind starts to think of applications of new coding techniques you learn, explore them! MariaTaylor posted... </cite> <quote>why are you running</quote>This town needs a new comptroller. It's time for a change. banananor posted... </cite> <quote>first of all, i should've already said congratulations on making the switch- it's a good life. i appreciate the answers. you can rest easy that i don't need the pitch :) are you mostly excited? do you have imposter syndrome? haha, you'd be surprised. the main thing i've learned is that there are a LOT of interesting people out there, and if you're anywhere near friendly, reasonable, intelligent and willing to learn you're kind of a slam dunk. i used to have a lot of imposter syndrome until i started being the official manager for people and dealing with all the different varieties of nonsense i've helped hire a few boot campers, and i think success comes down to screening extra heavily on personality. Having a lot of mentorship/code review available is also mandatory, as is having a lot of doable work for them to grind through. if any of those are missing you need to realize you should be hiring more senior devs or at least college grads (i'd say early stage companies shouldn't even have any juniors) you don't need to answer- and without revealing too much- what do they have you doing? UI, testing, CRUD? just kind of curious.</quote>Thanks! I've been enjoying it. I'm a few weeks from my anniversary in the position, actually. I hear of a lot of people having impostor syndrome, but I'm weird in that I don't. I just know if I know how to do something or not, and my team does a good job at supporting me when I say I don't know how to do something. My position is full-stack - data extraction into CRUD processes, programmed in mid-tier to help process and analyze data, for front-end display. --- "Bordate is a pretty shady place, what with the gangs, casinos, evil corporations and water park." - FAHtastic</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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