Beginner programmer, advice?

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Hello all,I an getting into programming and i have a bachelors in psychology with minors in buisness management, marketing, and athletic coaching. I about to take a front end bootcamp that has a lot of positive reviews.Any advice for what to do to set me apart of people with a degree when applying?Ive heard that i should be focused on making a good portfolio, any advice for thongs to look into or anything else to do?Thank you

Dkay14 · Accepted Answer

A portfolio will be key. I'd also recommend looking at a few software engineering job descriptions, seeing what kinds of responsibilities and tasks are common across there, and then do what you can to create and write projects that align with those. That way you can showcase the relevant experience through your projects, even without formal working experience.

I also made the transition from sports performance coaching!

Codebastard · Answer

A portfolio only in the sense of a project which created to resolve a personal problem should be enough.Quality over quantity. And if you can explain the design decision and problem approach maybe even with a market and user analysis than you are already above average.When interviewing people for me personally is important an intuitive understanding of for example recursion. In the sense of I want to you to able to solve common problems with enough time by yourself.And how browsers work if it's Fullstack with web app. Otherwise how an Os works and which part which kind of language takes in it's runtime. If you can effectively communicate the understanding and the balance between ram, CPU and HDD usage then you are already approaching mid level as a developer.As junior it's important to me the clean code acronyms, difference between object oriented and functional orientated programming and which methodics or patterns you use to implement clean code.Also reading the agile manifest is always a bonus point as it shows the person is interested in creating value and not only code.

Idk1234567 · Answer

Build a portfolio then get paid to build something no matter how little. The cold hard truth is that people only want to pay someone who has been paid to do the work before. Get ready for this to be a long process, at least two years after you finish your boot camp. Tech is hard to get your first job in but don’t get discouraged, but don’t fall for the lies the boot camp will feed you that your going to just walk out and find a job immediately after.Also I’d suggest you play into your strengths. If you like front end and have a psych degree learn about UX then you can leverage that degree to help you land jobs.

TechExec23 · Answer

Contribute to open source projects that align with your skills and have an active presence on GitHub

Zxrt · Answer

Fundamental of CS🤔 i'm jr backend engineer who graduate from bootcamp, and i just realize to move to more Senior role, i lack of fundamental of CS knowledges.

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