Quick Guide To Getting Started In Programming: Recent Episodes

Nii Darku

Talks about starting off your journey as a developer.

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Managing your time is one of the must-have skills as a programmer to make you very productive, in this episode, I talk about a few techniques that can help you manage your time well and hence make you very productive on your journey to becoming an awesome developer.

  • The Pomodoro Technique
  • Google Calendar
  • TodoList
  • The 4 quadrant modal

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In this episode, we talk to Annie an Android developer who shares her journey in tech and advice for someone starting out.

About Annie

Website - https://anniekobia.github.io/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/AnnunziataKinya/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/anniekobia

Hobby app - Harry Potter app

Learning Resources

Android Basics in Kotlin - Course

Android developer documentation

Communities

Android254 community

Andela Learning Community - Look out for openings for the Google Africa Developer Scholarship

She Code Africa

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In this episode I talk about the three basic technologies you should learn as a beginner. 

Html (Hyper Text Markup Language)

Css (Cascaded Style Sheet)

JavaScript 

W3school 

MDN 

JavaScriptInfo 

C - Create 

R - Read

U - Update 

D - Delete 

Try and build stuff while you learn.

Text Editors I will recommend 

  • Vs code
  • Atom
  • Brackets

Build a todo App and tag me on twitter 😀.
twitter handle - @_niicode

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In this episode we talk to Bright Ahiadeke (KwekuBright). 

We talk about how his journey started and how it has been so far 

Website - https://kwekubright.com

GitHub - @kwekubright 

Twitter - @kwekubright_ 

LinkedIn - Bright Ahiadeke

Content
https://w3schools.com

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In this episode I talk about some of the things you have in mind and the approaches you need to take in starting off your career in Programming.

Notes

  1. Identify yourself
  2. It’s okay to get stuck or not understand a concept at the start
  3. Consistency is very key
  4. Self motivation - Motivation is like a muscle that needs to be strengthened.
  5. Ask questions all the time
  6. 99% of errors you encounter have been answered out there so you should feel encouraged that you on the right path
  7. Learning how to google the right way to find answers you need.
  8. One language does it all
  9. Tutorial hell and investing in buying books and courses.

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In this episode I talk about starting off your journey either as a mobile or web developer.

Frameworks
Reactjs
Angular 
Vuejs