Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Hey! This video (my first!) dives into ten of the things I wish I knew at the very beginning of my programing career. We'll tackle impostor's syndrome, working with the community, t-shaping your learning, and strategies for sticking with it.

00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - 1) You don't need to know everything
03:08 - 2) Learn your developer tools
04:33 - 3) Get good at debugging
05:17 - 4) Don't get caught in the tutorial cycle
06:22 - 5) Write pseudocode
07:04 - 6) Get involved with the developer community
08:57 - 7) Don't listen to jerks
10:08 - 8) There are multiple ways to get into tech
12:15 - 9) Learning is not always easy
13:42 - 10) Have a confidence building strategy

📚 Learn More 📚

25 Tips for New Developers: Advice from a (Mostly) Self-Taught Software Engineer - welearncode.com/25-tips-new-devs
What I Wish I Knew Before I Learned to Code - ebook.welearncode.com

🌸 Links 🌸

Blog - welearncode.com
Twitter - twitter.com/aspittel
Twitch - twitch.tv/aspittel
Portfolio - http://alispit.tel