10 Years Of Coding - Everything I've Ever Done 

Thanks for making me realize how shitty my life has been and how big of a failure I am.

"At the time I can't remember if I cared more about learning, or just feeling like I was smart" PS: This is the best line. Reality hits you when you hear this.

My guy had more experience in computer science before finishing college than some people have when they retire...

This is my favorite Nick White video

We can really see you put effort on this one and it really paid off! This is your best video, keep it up!

Such a well made video man, well done

Me learning HTML and CSS: "I could make thousands now!" Me learning C# and JS: "Wtf"

hopefully this helps you guys understand who i am more!

"At the time I can't remember if I cared more about learning, or just feeling like I was smart". Same.

RU-vid: so do you want to flex? Nick White: yes but also yes

This makes me realize I haven't been working nearly hard enough. Got 1 year left till graduation... Shit...

Keep grinding RU-vid bro.

This video hits hard as fuck, Nick really out here being a chad engineer living the life.

the social network movie motivated me soo much as a kid, to bad it took me 10 years after to actually get serious about learning to code

You just showed me how bad I am at programming.

Title ,That’s like every company dream 10 year of experience at the age of 22

This was so good 👏🏾

Love how you placed the songs according to the timeline. Enjoy the copyright BTW.

Falling in love with The Social Network and then promptly forgetting about it is the most accurate description of my programming history you could have given. Props to you.

I dont know why I am addicted to watching this video over and over whenever I need motivation learning programming. The music , story, presentation is just awesome and fit very well together.

You kicked me in the ass dude 😢 keep going you push a lot of us! 🙏🏽

What am amazing journey you had! I started learning code at age 26 and have been working full time as a software engineer since age 28 (was in the army until age 27 then took a year to keep learning). If you ever want to chat about starting a project I would love to do that! I love coding but am sick of working for the man.

Damn this kid started around the same time I started my interest in programming. Difference is I stopped after the first year and took a decade break and now getting back to programming. It's all about the journey. There's so many things out there to "solve" and an endless amount of knowledge to be learned. Cheers to each of your own unique journey.

3 years of coding gave me social anxiety, depression, socially inactiveness can't even imagine what 10 years would do!!!!

This video should be called: "I didnt sleep for 10 years, this is my experience" PD: very good video bro, really your levels of knowledge and experience at coding are out of this world and I mean it bro, hope you can reach your goal at youtube

I have been coding for 3 years now and thanks for this video... I was a bit scared exploring new techs but now I think am ready to conquer this... Thanks for the inspiration

This was great dude

Yo you’re fucking hilarious bro. One of my favorite engineers on RU-vid.

Thank you nick, now i know that my dream of becoming a successful programmer is doomed

Wow, Nick! This was good. Thanks for uploading this one. I'm the one who was in your live today. 🙂

This video actually helped ease the pressure when it comes to coding. I really do not regret watching this video. I will totally recommend this video for those who maybe feeling the same thing as me.

Was knowning this video is gonnna be great!! Saw some part of this live 🎉

Thanks for sharing your story, man. I taught myself to code (just BASIC) when I was 9, back in 1983. I was so excited by it. My father convinced me not to pursue it (said there would be no money in it), so I dropped it and studied electronics. To this day, I wonder what would have happened if I'd kept with coding. I still want to use that skill and interest (maybe combined with electronics in microprocessor based stuff), but I'm 45 now, so most of it is water under the bridge. I feel happy for you to have achieved what you have.

That was very inspiring!! You’ve had some huge milestones man. Congratulations

Bro wtf I don't even remember what I did for like past 21 years of my life. ...I just gave exams after exams..f*ck...Now I m learning Html..If I could only experience 3-4 projects that this guy's worked on I will be satisfied..

hello from buffalo. Being feeling down lately. This video got me motivated, Thank you

I’m 23 now and wish I starting coding when I was in high school, I would have learned so much by now and my life would be so different. Now at 23 I kind of feel too old to start learning but I’m doing it anyway because I don’t want to be 30s and regret not starting to learn when I was in my early 20s.

Honestly, as a fellow software engineer, I 100% recommend code academy for beginners too

*Talks about The Social Network* I see, a man of culture as well. Honestly, i never get tired of that movie, it changed my life too

I love how raw this video is. And the fact he admits of not knowing what he really wants. A lot of folks in Software behave as if they are fine with their 9-5 and got all they wanted. I like Nick's drive. People and experiences over anything. 1000% agreed. Great video.

I just offered my first job thanks to your videos. Thank you so much Nick!

You are awesome Nick. You have so much experience in such a short time. You have done a lot. Hope the world will be back to normal soon and you’ll get to enjoy even more of it.

Jeez look at nick man, so inspirational.

it's impressive how much you've done. I have a hard time following through on my ideas, but this was very interesting to look at 2018 for me as a sophomore physics and mathematics major that codes. I want to go to graduate school in Urban-Champagne for physics but coding will definitely be a part of any project I work. kind of inspiring to see what you can do if you just put in the work when you have the opportunity. cool video

Easily your best video of all time. RIP Agendev

inspiring ....gives one the urge to keep on going

while he's done all of that, here im 22yo who literally just figured out what's html and css and thinks i have a chance in this world 🤦🏻‍♀️

this vid was dope Nick great storytelling makes me wanna tell my story too

most genuine coding experience video on yt right now mne

Man, this flex just never ends.😂 Thank you. *realisation hits hard *😔

Very real talk and life experience, and not pretentious, and just honest. Awesome to hear your story. Thank you

This is awesome, cool to know that there are these talented people I can learn from, because I never had the chance to surround myself with the same talented people here in the Netherlands like you have. Great stuff 🙏🏽

I'm currently 15, I know a bit of both C# and Python and just got an internship that tasked me with learning MYSQL in a weekend, so far I'm doing pretty good

This is the first video I've watched on your channel. The editing, the soundtrack, your humor: top notch. To say your work ethic and ambition is admirable is an understatement. Awesome stuff, man. Really 👍

the most exciting part of this was seeing how popular music has evolved in the last 10 years. super stoked to see what happens with the more prevalent decline of music labels

I interned at the NCSA around the same time as you did (May - August 2018)! It’s really weird thinking that I could have seen you and just never realized it (whether NCSA, campus, Brother’s).

I'm 18 now and started programming in August for my first programming class in college. I'm in love with it now and currently learning DSA. This is very inspiring. ty Nick

i love how jobs for this guy are basically just a party that ends and gets renewed every 9 months

Thanks for this video. I had quite the same start as you did. Hopefully I can have such a fun journey as yours too :D

I legit just started learning python… I’m so hyped for this to happen to me… sadly I know this may not happen the same… lmao but I have some huge plans that may make my mark in the industry… I hope I can! I know I can!

You are doing good nick! I just had a realization of my life when you wrapped up! Keep up!

This video really inspires me, but also makes me depressed feeling like there’s a limited timeline that’s almost limited to college freshmen.

just found you on RU-vid and I am a subscriber now. I am myself doing CS currently in my 5th semester, and I am Totally lost totally . That sentence at 13:42 scares me a lot Bro.

Hey Nick! My name's Dylan and I am 14, I got inspiration because of you. I just want to say thank you and keep doing you!

I really like how the message of the entire video ends with sage advice, people over power.

Coding sounds like a good place for a workaholic. Also , what I've recognized is that coding is one thing but algorithms is a whole other thing. Coding is easy. Algorithms , not so easy.

Good job Nick keep up the spirit and continue to inspire many others

He went from coding “what’s up doc” 3:24 to working with super computers 8:20. Now that’s a level up, it just shows if you just put in the work you can get to places you didn’t even imagine you’d get to. Well done bro

This really motivated me to try my best to get into an programming School after i finish this last 1 year of middle school

That's quite the list for 24 years old. Good job man. I'm a month away from 27 and I've spent my adult years working in the systems/network side of things. My first job was as a datacenter technician at the Microsoft datacenters around here, and I'm currently stuck in a systems administrator role. Really enjoyed my web development classes in college and finally trying to transition to that side of the industry instead.

Layout patterns that I dont remember xD its okay in my opinion its the logic and problem solving skills you gain through each project, after a while you really see the big picture.

How tf you do so many things in that span of time like when I was in college all I did was sleep, laptop, attend some classes and seminars, and repeat like wtf Nick, and if you read this comment thanks for all of these good content and I want to ask the name or profile of that facebook guy who tutors you.

oh sh*t, I was also inspired by the social network LETS GO!! New generation of coders here!

I am but a simple man, since I was12 I wanted to do game dev with other people and I am 19 with the same goal. That is it, pretty happy with programming for games and working with others.

I like the spins in the background

One word - Nostalgic. When you speak i actually go back in time and visualize what i've done to actually get to where i am today. Not as glorious and as eventful as yours but i time-travelled into my past. Thank you for sharing this Nick.

Amazing video Nick

I tried to learn C++ at 14 and my god it was formidable. My only programming experience before that was printing stuff in cmd using batch scripts. I was the fuckin man though and you could not convince me otherwise. 17 years old I liked video games and started writing dll's to inject in games to give me infinite health, stamina, XP, etc. That's when pointers, references, executable file structure (i.e. PE (i.e. portable executable) format), RVA's, how virtual memory works and Windows OS architecture, CPU registers, etc started to click. Here's my advice to someone who's stubborn and also wants to learn C++ in a fun way that kind of immediately gives you tangible results. Make some hacks for single player games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the Master Chief collection campaigns, etc. Games where you won't be griefing other people trying to have fun and being a douche. You'll learn a lot and it will be super fun. Of course you'll prob start with Assault Cube. But game hacking will give you deeper insight to how Assembler works like opcodes, why segmentation faults occur, how paging in memory works, page permissions, kernel and user space memory, x86 vs x64 bit architecture, little and big endianness, a very firm grasp on pointers, if you get into it also ESP hacks and/or being able to see enemies through walls which requires knowledge of things like graphics programming, linear algebra, matrices, matrix multiplication, etc. It was a really great learning experience for me in which I never hurt anyone because I only did this in offline, single player games and it didn't defeat the purpose of the game because the challenge was still there. The challenge was just different in that I was dealing more with the architecture and stuff of the game I was hacking rather than just playing it. Playing a game with hacks isn't fun, it gets old very fast and unrewarding. Learning how to hack a game and the challenge of doing it is a ton of fun though and you learn a ton. Good luck.

You're a down to earth guy. Keep up the good work.

I always find it funny whenever someone claims their coding career started in their early teens.

I find coding along of fun mainly because it feels so rewarding to finish something that works

I can understand how you feel ,and many thanks for the great in sights included in this video . When we're going to a different periods out of life ,shit constantly change , the time when we're most happier is just flying so quick . In the end is only you : ) and the most difficult part is to win against yourself .. Wish you well

Meanwhile, there are big RU-vidrs with shitty contents and earning handsomely.

I have this video saved previously, so I can keep coming back to it. It always motivates me when ever I come back to it, especially when I'm feeling low about coding. You did a great job on this one, Nick.

i want to be able to delve into as many things as you have haha loved this video! so cool!!

Yo from Ukraine :) Your video is amazing and story is so warm and funny. I enjoyed it and subscribed. Continue please!

Great video! It's so inspiring for beginners!

Ahh yes, good ol' Codecademy HTML tutorial was my introduction to development, back in 2017. Didn't know anything about "coding," just recognized "HTML" and started with that. Was a counselor at a rehab, and decided I'd rather work with computers instead of humans, so started learning in my free time, went back to community college took some classes etc. 4 years later landed my first job, I'll be starting in mid-June (hint: learn C# there's tons of jobs out there).

I started coding 2012, left for years to do other stuffs like mechanical and fashion. now getting back to code to create cool things and work in a dope company. Never wanted the money but time and family will make it necessary

copyrights on this video. I appreciate your sacrifice nick

My life and aspirations are same but I was just able to do less things. Very good and inspiring video :)

I felt that when you talked about enjoying feeling smart. That's what gets me through p sets

this video boost my mood to code again thanks bruh

1:54 what's that background music? It's lit

You are a BOSS! Love your story.

Code Academy got me started too! Learned front end development pretty fast, then started using Udemy for everything else even now as a developer

i started coding in C when I was 14. Did assembler at 16. Ditched coding altogether at 34 and became a bee keeper. I just lost all interest and joy in coding. When I was jounger, it was my life. No idea what happened.

300k? LOVE YOUR VIDEOS cX. Love how you never promoted this channel with ice, but you should! I only found you thru coding searches on youtube and was like wtf its you!

Look how Nick White taste of songs change over 10 years.

I'm currently at your 2017 stage where you've made the transition from hating school to loving to learn cs to the point where you're helping your peers. I hope the light at the end of the tunnel is real cuz its a really strange place to be at. Still need that internship tho