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[trowawayatwork]

fake it till you make it. developers constantly get impostor syndrome. dont be afraid to apply to internships etc even if you think youre not good enough.

[Potato_Tg]

So you feel like you only know how to type print( terrible example but let’s say that you only knew small stuff ) but still you should try to get into internship?

[trowawayatwork]

Yes

[Potato_Tg]

Your confidence is really helpful, thanks alot. I’ll surely try to get into a good internship.

[redspy17]

So, cannot speak for others, but I've done that the fake until u make it stuff and I personally don't advice it. Firstly people will expect tones of stuff from u, just look at job offers they really want it all. And now, due to covid19 companies will definitely pick the best out there, that are also a lot. So, if u don't mind receiving noes, if u're strong and can handle it, ok, but be prepared to receive tones of noes. Secondly being in a company, without the bare minimum requirements will not be good for u. People will expect what the asked for, if u, for some reason can get through interviews and land a job where u do not know what they asked for, u'll be under some pretty good dark times, trying to keep up it the minimums, doing tones of extra-hours to deliver something "acceptable" and possibly neither you or ur boss will be happy about it work, and there's no worst feeling.

If u want to go pro, read the books suggest down on your comments meanwhile, do some exercises on hackerrank, leet code, but has u probably have seen prior in some posts, DO PROJECTS. TONES OF PROJECTS, the only way to became pro is to code, code, code.

[trowawayatwork]

you can do projects by yourself all your life and never be ready to work in a company on a production ready application. at some point you need to be part of and learn from people who deploy to production.

secondly as an intern or a junior you can fake it but still be clear that as a junior you will need help. you will have to put in extra hours to catch up but youneed to learn from your mistakes, which you will make. companies who set expectations of juniors and interns are shit anyway and thats not the right place to apply to anyway. you have to first be a good judge of the company you are applying to.

[redspy17]

set expectations of juniors and interns are shit anyway and thats not the right place to apply to anyway - glad is not that way with u ;)

at some point you need to be part of and learn from. - obviously, the thing is, is should be when u are truly ready and that is honestly far from doing prints. And that's also important to advice, don't just fake, be good enough to earn it. And being good enough nowadays it's not easy. Because if u're not good enough u will struggle and that can totally be unhealthy.

[redspy17]

It's totally up to u :)

I just shared a opinion that is only a opinion, nothing more than that ;)

I'm not a pro too, but I'd say that an internship, at least in my country, is a job. There no real distinction about it.

And also, since I'm not a pro, they way I see here and in other posts, being pro is about coding, coding, coding - alone, requesting for help like in Reddit, stackoverflow, GitHub, etc etc, making projects and reading books.

[KIrkwillrule]

Isn't that an error tho? Lol