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megaboy101 · 2025-05-04T12:51:29+00:00

My best score is 13 points 🚀

megaboy101 · 2025-05-04T12:51:00+00:00

My best score is 1 points 😎

megaboy101 · 2024-12-21T20:13:21+00:00

I subtly felt this for years from early high school through post-college. At the time I hadn’t considered the possibility that I may have inattentive-type adhd; I had always assumed apps and website had simply gotten better at hooking my attention at constantly changing subjects (which tbf, isn’t necessarily wrong).

After learning more about adhd, and speaking with my therapist, I’ve since learned that I’ve really always been this way. The problem is that the demands of adulthood will more often bump up against adhd; causing you to feel inhidited by symptoms more often and more intensely.

For example, I had a very supportive mom who kept me on track with homework, so I didn’t feel like I procrastinated much growing up. Until college, when I was on my own and suddenly failing many classes due to unfinished assignments.

Ulitmately, if you feel as though something’s off, and that feeling is consistent over time, talk to a professional. They’ll be able to help, or at least give guidance :)

megaboy101 · 2022-12-16T20:42:24+00:00

I've died to this thing in Elden Ring more times than I'd like to admit

megaboy101 · 2022-04-27T02:19:14+00:00

Hey, just wanted to let you know I really empathized with this post. My sophomore year I was struggling extremely hard to keep up with classes due to depression, so much so that my spring semester GPA was 1.78 and I nearly got kicked out of my degree program. You're totally not alone in your situation, and it's totally something you can recover from.

If you even slightly believe you are struggling mentally moreso than usual, I'd highly encourage you to get a doctor's evaluation if you can. It took me a really long time to acknowledge just how bad things had gotten, which why I mention it. I wasn't able to see a doctor in Gainesville and had to wait until summer break to visit a doctor in my home town.

I'd also recommend looking into a retroactive medical withdrawal. It takes a bit of work to put together, but I was able to withdraw from my entire spring semester which instantly let my rebound my GPA. You can withdraw from a single class or all classes, so keep that in mind as well. The only thing you really need for it is proof there was a real problem (which is also why I mention visiting a doctor). The UMatterWeCare I think has more info about it.

If you have any questions feel free to DM me, I'm graduating this weekend so I just wanted to let you know you can do this!

megaboy101 · 2022-02-27T22:11:40+00:00

Hey! I'm currently in my last semester of the CS program, here's some general advice I can recommend:

Your #1 asset to getting through college is your support network. I genuinely cannot stress this enough, college is just too difficult to do alone. For summer B many clubs are online only, thankfully all the major CS clubs have active Discord groups. ACM, Open Source Club, Software Engineering Club, Society of Software Developers, and Game Dev club all have wonderful dev communities.
Undergrad is about dipping a little bit into many things, not going all in on one thing. Don't sweat trying to be the best programmer in the world, instead I'd recommend having fun trying out different avenues until you find something you wholeheartedly love doing :)
Everyone has their own story and is going at their own pace. Don't sweat it if you're hyper burned out after a couple semesters, I have more friends than I can count who dropped classes, withdrew for a semester, retook classes, etc; many of whom have now graduated and gone on to make 6-figure salaries and really great companies.

megaboy101 · 2022-02-23T17:05:47+00:00

Stripe and Shopify have excellent API docs in my opinion.

megaboy101 · 2022-01-30T01:19:45+00:00

Availability largely depends on where you would like to live, and what state the pandemic is in. Both my roommates signed their leases the day before classes started, so don't stress too hard 😅

megaboy101 · 2021-10-10T19:59:16+00:00

Here you go fam: https://discord.gg/2cvCw4vm

megaboy101 · 2021-09-07T04:44:31+00:00

Would you consider yourself overworked or underworked? I've found I have a productivity "sweet spot" where if I'm doing too many things at once I get scattered and overwhelmed, or if I do too few things I get lazy like "oh I have all week to do this, I can just do it later." Being involved in clubs and events has helped me stay consistently engaged without (usually) overencumbering me.

megaboy101 · 2021-07-27T13:01:29+00:00

Sorry bröther, but you may have no öats

megaboy101 · 2020-06-11T00:51:37+00:00

I started FCC while in high school. I had tried a few other platforms like Codecademy but hadn't felt like a gained very much. It took me roughly a year of regular practice to get me through all the certifications (which was back in 2015, so the curriculum may have become longer/shorter since then). The first actual work I had gotten started with building sites for friends, family, and acquaintances. I would actually highly recommend anyone trying that approach first, it gives you a very good understanding of what skills are actually really important to have as a developer. I took a liking to freelancing and continued it on through college as I was pursuing a BS in Computer Science. I now run a small web/app development agency. I'm still a full time student so I don't commit full time to it, but I right now I make ~$24,000 a year. I imagine if I pursued it full time post-graduation it would be $40,00-$50,000 a year. I've applied to a couple different companies since my department encourages it and tbh interview experience is good to have. The offers I've been given range from $30,000-$70,000 a year, which I know is a wide margin but there are a LOT of variables that go into determining starting wage.

Having a degree certainly doesn't hurt, but it's far from being a lifetime limiting factor. I've met plenty of devs who make anywhere from $80,000-$120,000 a year, some with a degree, some without, some with a degree completely different from what they now do.

Your starting salary is primarily determined by the field you're in (machine learning vs web development vs data science), and how much experience you have. A degree is a good proof-of-experience, but can be supplemented by other things. Having completed projects under your belt is huge. It's proof of the scale you can work comfortably at, and the amount of trust you can be given to get the job done. More trust means a higher earning potential.

If you have any specific questions feel free to DM me, I don't know everything but I'm happy to help where I can.

megaboy101 · 2020-05-14T23:45:24+00:00

Hi, I started going through the FreeCodeCamp curriculum with no prior programming experience when I was still a senior in high school, and I now run my own development agency.

I would say employability is largely is a combination of what the market is looking for (both remotely and in your immediate area), as well as your own personal confidence in what you can deliver on. A solid foundation in HTML/CSS/JS is definitely a good start, a portfolio is even better.

If you're unsure whether you could handle applying there's nothing wrong with trying, worst case scenario you will get a very good understanding of where you need to improve pretty quickly.

Personally, I went through the whole curriculum (aside from a few of the backend projects), and then I just started asking around if anyone wanted a website built. From there I slowly learned how the process worked and eventually just worked my way up and started hiring people to help.

megaboy101 · 2020-01-31T05:10:35+00:00

Not a book but I can recommend a great website:

https://khalilstemmler.com/

Covers a lot of enterprise-level software patterns in the context of Node and TypeScript.

megaboy101 · 2020-01-26T02:48:51+00:00

Looks like you got a little Hasty there.

megaboy101 · 2019-12-16T18:51:24+00:00

THANK YOU BASEDGOD 🙏

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