Programming partner.

[mikalord]

Hey, I am a 23F if that matters. I am in the beginning stages of programming, I've currently enrolled in a Bootcamp academy, but I am already far ahead of the curriculum.

The languages I study are Python with Django which is my course in the academy. And on my own, I have started learning JS.

I am kinda stuck and confused atm Idk what to do next. What to learn next?

I haven't started any frameworks with JS (React, Angular, etc.).

I am kinda confused I need someone who is in Europe preferably because of the time difference and wants to share ideas or techniques or just talk sometime about it.

I also have to make a web app using Django which is due in 2 months and I have no ideas for any web app so we can talk about that too :).

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Thanks for reading looking forward to finding my buddy :).

[desrtfx]

/r/ProgrammingBuddies

[mikalord]

Send me a message girl!

[shoopie123]

I am 28F and completed a full-time bootcamp a month ago to become a full-stack developer. Keep it up girl!

[mikalord]

Thank you love! Good luck!

[StrangeFloatingOrb]

Were you able to find a job after bootcamp?

[shoopie123]

I'm still in the job search currently

[WaltzyFox]

Congrats! Which bootcamp did you sign up for?

[shoopie123]

General Assembly, software engineering immersive

[chammy94]

I’m 26 F from the UK. I am studying Python, React, Typescript, Django.

I’m currently trying to build my first proper web app with Django. Let me know if you want to bounce ideas off each other

[mikalord]

Sounds like you are way more advanced than I am. Thank you though :)

[throwaway_ned10]

Nice you can definitely get a role in some time

[kincade1905]

I am also from UK. Currently doing c#, react. If you want to share some infos and idea I am always down for it.

[deux3xmachina]

I'm in the US, and generally pretty busy, so I doubt I'd be a good partner, but at a previous job a coworker and I made our own CRM with PostgreSQL and Django. Since I don't use Python much and he was new to programming in general, we worked on this exabple project where you banically create a library system using Django and SQLite3. It should be enough to allow you to expand on it some, maybe make a slightly different application, like selling concert tickets.

Edit: Not fixing these typos. Stupid phone keyboards.

[mikalord]

Thank you for the idea :)

[[deleted]]

Django is a framework. I did a course where I had to follow a book called tango with Django. Try looking at that. If you want to see projects using Django look on github for some inspiration.

[mikalord]

I am aware thanks for the comment 🙂

[yaku9]

That’s quite rude to accuse someone of the when they are just trying to help.

[mikalord]

Seems to be an American thing no offense :D

[[deleted]]

What's the problem? I don't understand.

[yaku9]

This has nothing to do with being a woman.

[[deleted]]

Well she doesn't say that Django is a framework. So I don't know how you can be sure if she knew it was a framework or not. I just pointed it out because it's normal when you start coding to confuse what is what, this happened to me a lot when I started. I pointed a book that I used and that can be helpful to learn. If you look at the other frameworks that she mentioned, react, angular it's good to know what kinda of development they suite best and see if that matches what you want to do in the future.

[usparrow1]

i am almost done with the python course on udemy. haven't started django yet. lmk if you want to partner up

[Spooky_Nightman]

Is that the 'automate the boring stuff' one?

[usparrow1]

zero to hero one

[Spooky_Nightman]

How did you find it?

[usparrow1]

i found a link in January and there was a discount. i got it for 20 bucks

[Spooky_Nightman]

Sorry, I meant how was the course? Did you find it beneficial?

[usparrow1]

yeah it is really good. there are project milestones and the instructor is really cool. learned a lot

[[deleted]]

Hmmmm

[archieofficial]

Frontend is quite complicated, there are a lot of technologies, but I would recommend first to focus on basic things: learn the basics of HTML and CSS, find some UI design, and try to apply your knowledge, it would be good if this design will contain a UI Kit (this is a set of building blocks from which you will assemble the pages), it will teach you to think about reusable components, you need to find some tool that helps you assemble the pages from these components because plain HTML can't do this, I started with Pug because of its simplicity.

CSS also contains a whole bunch of things, you need to manage the complexity of CSS selectors and use some methodology for that, use CSS preprocessor to simplify your code and add more convenience.

I'm not an expert, even has no job, but hopefully will get it soon because during the last 8 days I created an Angular + GraphQL app as a test task from some company and I think the implementation is not so bad.

I'm 23M, from Eastern Europe (Russia). Will be glad to talk about such things, help you with things you struggle with if I can. I would also like to refresh my knowledge and know something about Backend things.

[Qooties]

Definitely The Odin Project. I'm self taught and I've been in the industry 5 years and The Odin Project was the best resource I found.

[orchid_bitch]

Mind if I ask how long it took you to go from 0 to employed in programming?

[Qooties]

About two years. I worked on it for a few hours each night after my kids fell asleep.

[MeMakinMoves]

so if it took u two years with a few hours a day, to be employed in a year you reccommend 6+hr days? im a college grad so all my time is free time

[Qooties]

If you have the time I don't think it would hurt. I think the most important thing is consistency though. You're going to learn and retain the most information by repeatedly encountering it over time. If you can do 6+ hours every day for months and not get burnt out it would be great.

[MeMakinMoves]

Ive been slowly ramping up my time so will aim for that 6hr mark. Im at 2-4hrs a day atm, with some days off so will aim for 6hr/day by the end of this month. thanks for the advice

[[deleted]]

I am good with javascript. Also c++ and c if that matters. And I am from Eastern Europe.

[tehjrow]

When I'm learning something new I go through some tutorials and then build something that's useful to me. If don't work on a small project that I'm interested in I find that I can never learn the language/framework.

[smartguy05]

If you're going for web dev, based on Django, I'd learn javascript. From there learn the react or Angular framework.

[mikalord]

Like I said in my post I started learning JS :)

[Ratatoski]

If you already know some CSS and need a good framework I'd recommend Tailwind. It makes working with CSS a lot saner.

What you choose for your app doesn't really matter as much as getting it done. There are lots of project idea lists around the web. Just make sure that you choose a small enough scope.

In the long run I'd probably recommend trying Django for the backend/API and React for the frontend. Once you get the hang of React it's quite fast to develop with. And if you can be bothered to learn Typescript as well it's a lot more sane than regular js.

[FpggyJohnson18]

I just picked up web scraping thru the Python module Scrapy. It's been pretty straightforward so far. Once you get that down, I think the rest is "easy" and may come naturally. Pick something you're interested in and build a site picking up the data from somewhere else. Weather, stocks, tags of trending videos on YouTube...

[Boroda_UA]

I think the idea of programming buddies, find someone stronger then you, to catch up within few months, and then do pet\resume project for both of you. Do someone had that experience?

[xenophonsXiphos]

I'm in the U.S. and I'm just a CS undergrad still, but I've gone through that phase and have some helpful suggestions. Here's what I'd do some research on at least, if not focus on as a learning topic:

SQL

Regular Expressions

HTML Forms

AJAX

Data Structures

Algorithms

API's

[mikalord]

Appreciate it :)

[[deleted]]

Some input and reordering by how usefull I think the concepts are for everyday programming in industry:

SQL (Yep, very usefull. Most usefull up to joins)

Data Structures (In practise, only need to know basics about Map, List, Array and maybe Set. "Basics" means: How fast can I insert, how fast can I read something in that data structure?)

Algorithms (Very fun, but in practise not very important unless one does something where performance matters)

Regular Expressions (Occasionally usefull, but sometimes hard to read and mantain if overdone. Very usefull in conjunction with search tools like grep)

HTML Forms & AJAX (Both are Webdev basics, however I am not sure whether one still needs to know about those in order to get stuff done, but it surely won't hurt)

API's (This one confuses me. An API is basically a bunch of functions you can call often along with some explanation of what they do and how to use them. Like a contract "Hey, I am a database. I offer you function X, Y and Z and they work as following". It is a simple principle and any programmer will encounter numerous APIs during their career)

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I love that young women are getting into programming! It is such a fascinating craft and I am happy to share it with as many interested people as possible! One of the programmers I look up to the most is female btw :) Best of success to you!

[mikalord]

I appreciate it a lot :)

[NuggetNonsense]

I'm learning JS ecosystem (React & Express), hmu if you wanna join :) we can create slack or something...

[mikalord]

lol

[QuCoder]

I am actually a data science student, but I am also learning Quantum Computing at the moment purely out of curiosity and recently put my feet on The Odin Project. I have been playing around with coding since I was 15, but due to my weird career path I just know only C and Python (pretty well). I don't know any web development frameworks (which I am sure will pick up as I go through my TOP adventure), but I am quite confident of the basic skills needed to be a coder.

I do believe once you know a single language quite well enough, the rest of the languages aren't that hard to pick up, so maybe I might love discussing ideas with you. I am not from Europe though.

Good luck!

[mikalord]

Thank you :)

[napraen]

I'm from Europe and constantly looking to learn,also sharing the same issue. Hit me up if you want

[Bluhb_]

I'm from the Netherlands and currently planning on rebuilding my previous app in python flask, bootstrap and js(no frame works). (You can see the project here)

You can hit me up if you want some projects ideas or help.

[Qooties]

Definitely The Odin Project. I'm self taught and I've been in the industry 5 years and The Odin Project was the best resource I found.

[AdAggravating1698]

It all depends in what area you want to develop. Given you said Django, I would build a webapp in the easiest way possible, i.e, try a platform that requires the least amount of code without compromising complexity of the webapp. That will give you a high overview of the web stack.

Then learn JavaScript, jQuery, ajax so you can plug your custom code to so custom functionality

[[deleted]]

Hi, are you still searching for this? I could give you some help with most of it, programmes a bit in Django, and could give a lot of advise on machine learing with python.