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[English (Auto-generated)] Mindset of Successful Programmers [DownSub.com]

The document discusses key mindset changes for learning to code effectively, emphasizing the importance of practice over theory, managing ego, and embracing discomfort as part of the learning process. It argues that mastery is not the goal for beginners; instead, the focus should be on building projects and iterating on them. Ultimately, successful programmers are those who understand the basics well and maintain a continuous desire to learn and improve.

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[English (Auto-generated)] Mindset of Successful Programmers [DownSub.com]

The document discusses key mindset changes for learning to code effectively, emphasizing the importance of practice over theory, managing ego, and embracing discomfort as part of the learning process. It argues that mastery is not the goal for beginners; instead, the focus should be on building projects and iterating on them. Ultimately, successful programmers are those who understand the basics well and maintain a continuous desire to learn and improve.

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if I could change just one thing about

the time I spent learning to code it


wouldn't be the tutorial I chose or the
language I started off with it would a
hundred and ten percent be these mindset
changes so I'm just going to get
straight into them okay so the first one
is focus on practice not Theory when I
was first getting started I stumbled
across a blog post on the internet where
I read something like the 10 000 hour
rule to Mastery it said that if you
spend 10 000 hours doing something
you'll eventually become a master at it
in my head I understood that as let me
go read a bunch of books and watch a
bunch of tutorials on programming for
ten thousand hours and the quicker I can
do that the better programmer I'll
become My Philosophy now is a lot more
different and it's more the ten thousand
lines of code approach so how quickly
can I get to 10 000 lines of code where
every thousandth line is better than the
last one coding or programming is a
craft and you get better at it by being
inefficient slow and bad it's a lot more
like woodworking playing an instrument
drawing than it is like law or history
or Finance or anything that's very
information dense finally this point or
this mindset is really helpful in making
you avoid tutorial help and if this
video reaches say 10 likes
I'll make a step-by-step guide on how to
get out of tutorial hell alright Point
number two is ego is the enemy so when I
was just getting started I didn't want
to do the plain HTML CSS recipe websites
that tutorials get you to make I want to
do the cool stuff I wanted to make my
Facebook clone a Reddit clone I want it
to be Nitty Gritty in algorithms and
rest apis this was my ego speaking had I
swallowed my pride and not thought that
doing these basic things were beneath me
I would have become a much better
engineer in a lot less the time
all right so Point number three get
comfortable with being uncomfortable in
software engineering you're an
information manager so it isn't your job
to know everything and as a professional
developer you'll never know everything
however given that the problem is within
your domain so say you're a back-end
engineer and it's a back-end problem
you're expected to be able to go and
solve it and that's a really
uncomfortable feeling and it's never
really gonna go away I mean tools will
be there you can read up as much as you
want outside of work but there's so much
in this field that you just have to be
okay with feeling uncomfortable and you
have to sort of learn to enjoy it you
have to see it as a part of the job that
you actually enjoyed like okay cool I'm
not uncomfortable I'm actually going to
learn something now I'm gonna go beyond
what I knew before I picked up this
piece of work and that's the beauty of
this field so the final point is you
will never Master programming I see
these kind of posts on Reddit all the
time how quickly can I master X language
or is it better if I master HTML before
CSS and this misses the point of
programming for beginners you aren't
meant to master languages in the
beginning you're meant to go and build
things with them and iterate on it you
don't Master programming Concepts you
understand them vaguely when you watch
tutorial or read something off a book
you go and apply them numerous times in
a project and then you continuously
improve on that
this really goes back to what I said
about coding being a craft
so for example this is a situation that
I've been in and you're starting to
learn to code and you stumble across
some Concepts you don't understand say
CSS flexbox what I used to do was I
would sit down and I would non-stop read
about the concept watch different videos
and I will try to master that concept
before I went on to the next and that is
completely wrong what I would do now is
I would okay I don't understand this let
me finish off this section of the
tutorial or whatever section I set out
to do and then I would go build things
with it alright so your immediate
rebuttal would be something like okay
but if I'm not a master how am I meant
to get a job in this industry well
you're missing the point again when
you're getting hired as a junior
developer you're not expected to be a
master you're expected to know a certain
part of the domain that the company is
looking for say front-end development
and you're expected to have the grit
patience and persistence to constantly
learn and absorb new things
and this is how really good programmers
are made they know the basics really
well not by reading books or doing video
tutorials by building a bunch of
projects and they're always eager to
learn more so they do a bunch of
practice they swallow their pride
they're very comfortable with being
uncomfortable because they're learning
and they're on this continuous pursuit
of mastery

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