The Importance of Specialization in Coding 

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I work in recruiting and heard something interesting one time - Consider things on a job postings as of "Has knowledge of it" as you know what it is and could learn it if needed. Most things are not required and a lot of these are being written by AI these days.

thats why their job listing never filled

Who cares about linkedin, build your business and hire yourself .

Sometimes those job postings aren’t sincere attempts at finding candidates. I had an interview (with a major payment card company in the northern suburbs of Chicago) for a ‘Network Technician’ job several months back where they preferred knowledge of Python, Ansible, AWS… but then daily duties involved tracking inventory of network equipment. That struck me as odd, but I accepted the interview. Didn’t get the job. Later I realized that the absurdity of the posting was no accident. The hiring manager (or whoever came up with that job description) was likely creating the conditions where they were able to present the appearance of productivity, rather than do anything that was actually productive.

When you have been coding for sometime you start getting clarity that there are way better people than you at anything and all you can do is learn and improve. This leads to humility

When you have been doing this as long as he has, you will understand that languages are more the same than they are different. They all have strings, arrays, Booleans, and looping for example. What can be very different are things like specific drawing libraries and things like that for each language. Also everything has to generate the same CSS, HTML, and JavaScript as end products.

bruh got jacked af

​@@AustinDoesDesignI noticed his face is slimmed down, glad for him improving himself in many ways, he deserves it.

Hey @fszotyi I'm on the same journey as well. Why don't we connect? 😄

​@@ForexPeak👍

That’s awesome ❤

Neat.

Wish I never gave up on it, 10 months given to learning, learned a ton but burned myself out (ft job, kids, and learning 5 hours after work) Considering getting back on JS, which was my pain points, but am going to learn GDscript to dev an indie game also 😀 If I / had i used TypeScript it probably would've helped, I like strict

Which few videos would your recommend of his ?

​@@theelastog1580almost all his videos are helpful, so grab what you want to learn

@@theelastog1580 yeah, I'm interested too.

I think once you find a stack to really “master” (if that’s even a thing), then it’s fine to keep learning more. I just think it’s important to have a focus for the first couple years

So exactly what you choose to do at the end ?

and a good 'team player' :P

​@@dystopian_1and good soft skills

@@dystopian_1don’t forget pay: 16$ an hour

Yeah, specialising so aggressively is bad advice for anyone not a beginner/in their first job tbh. If you have solid foundations and can float between similar technologies, companies will happily hire you to work with languages/tech you've never used before. If you specialise so heavily, your job market will shrink a lot as the years ago by

Yep, lots of folks don't enjoy reading docs, so they stick to RU-vid for help.

@@centro-aothat is what being said here. You can't enjoy reading docs if you don't understand what's going on. Especially for libraries and frameworks , you should build the intuition to understand the docs not always going to youtube, by understanding programming concepts. Please I am not saying youtube is bad . If you are stuck go and look for help but reading docs it's an underated skill. It can make your programming life easier in this industry were new technologies are always available.

All these languages and libraries/frameworks abstract everything to a point where everything doesn't make sense and makes it challenging to form a coherent mental model. If some error would occur you wouldn't be able to deal with it and fix the problem. Some libraries docs really explain the inner parts of their code and explain why they use their approach to code.

+1

Am 18 I've your comment inspires me .

Brother, your dedication inspires me

Here I am with plans to move away from JavaScript after 10yrs with it😅. It's so frustrating keeping up

Javascript nowadays can be used for web and desktop app can be used even offline on local computer storage

I am learning at 25 😂

If not for his voice and mannerisms I would think it's his brother or cousin but not Brad.

Imagine if all devs was on flex mode lol.. im getting in shape also, great to see Brad on it!

As a gym bro, I approve. Simple thing to do, huge effects in life. You get auto-respect.

Any suggestions on how to level up in React? This would be my tool of "specialty" but after about 2 and a half years of working with it exclusively I would consider myself decent but by no means an expert at it. Thanks

@@thru_and_thru I have the same YOE as you so I wouldn't consider myself a mega expert either. I just get the job done. But react is javascript after all. If you want to become an expert, delve deep into javascript and how react is built on top of it.

@@thru_and_thrubuild a larger project you're passionate about. Something that takes at least a month to build. But to really level up you need to work in a real work product, and get feedback from your peers

@@thru_and_thru Understand the basic concept of programming and have a deep understanding of the language you are interested in instead of focusing on "framework". Im a self-taught and been coding for more almost 2 decades. For Almost 5 years on my early days, I was too reliant with jQuery and does not fully understand how Javascript works, when these framework started to appear in early days (Angular, React, Vue) I was having a hard time trying to gasp their concept when I tried learning them while also working full time. The same thing with PHP, I was too reliant with CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal in the early days and when I started learning CoreIgniter/Laravel/Symfony I was lost. The company I worked on my early days was dissolve and I lost my full time job, I was kinda lazy to apply another job with similar position and I want to dig more deeply on programming, so instead of applying full time, I did project basis from here and there then started to leraning compiled languages like C, C++, Java, Rust, Zig, Go, I even tried learning Assembly for the purpose of having deep understanding on how code execution, memory management and multi-threading works, and I can say it was very painful Journey specially when all you know are interpreted language. When I went back learning PHP/Javascript and these popular framework, it becomes really easy and all I have to understand is design of the framework, they all follow the same concept interns of memory management and code execution. Right now, I can confidently say that I can work on any PHP/Javascript framework whatever it is as long as it has documentation, I worked with Vue, Angular, React, Solid, Meteor, Express, Next and some more. Although Im more focus on Vue, Solid and Angular, I can say they are all pretty much the same, they are all "Javascript" and if you have deep understanding with Javascript all you need to understand about them are the builtin function or anything that comes from them and their design pattern.

@@thru_and_thru there’s a certification for React, called React certified. To pass the test, you need to have deep understanding about JS (hoisting, scope chain, event loop, JS runtime, closure, etc), and React (virtual dom deep dive, React life-cycle, all the hooks, error boundaries, state management in both component and global scope, Redux, React router dom, etc.), Jest for testing, profiller, React compiler, client-side authentication, authorization, bundle size,…. To be more advanced, learn NextJS (rendering patterns, file-based routing, caching, meta data configuration, SEO optimization, etc.), Git, Docker, CI/CD. After that, you can choose to learn another framework like Vue and Nuxt, or React Native for mobile, or NodeJS to become fullstack dev, it’s okay either way, but just React alone is quite unstable and risky for your future