In this short post, I want to share with you the most important piece of advice I ever received when I started out as a programmer. It was so simple and yet packed with power!

So who will benefit from The Becoming a Programmer Series?

I know it sounds like a cliché, but the idea was to build the courses I would have loved to learn from when starting out. Something that guides me one step at a time, leaving no gaps in the process. Here is what I mean...

In the previous post, we discussed the problems we will face when starting out on our journey to become a programmer. We identified four questions that we need answers to:

1. Where do I start?
2. What do I learn?
3. When do I know enough?
4. Where do I go next?

In the previous post, we saw that the answer to the question, "How do I become a programmer?" is not a simple one. And here is the reason why...

To become a programmer, you need to know a lot of things about a lot of things.

The goal of this post is to look at the question, "How do I become a programmer?"

How do I Become a Programmer?​

This is a loaded question! Unfortunately, an online search may give you something like the following suggestion:

I started my professional career as a pharmacist. I left university with a B Pharm degree and a BSc (Hons) degree in Pharmacology.

Welcome to my Becoming a Programmer website.

My name is Deon Slabbert, and I am a Fullstack Software Developer.

I have been a full-time, Fullstack software developer now for the last 38+ years, and I hope to teach you how to become a Fullstack software developer as well.

How to retrieve values from the application.properties file using the Spring Boot framework.

The following code snippets demonstrate how to read and write text files in Java.

Reading from Text File​

var fileName = Path.of("myfile.txt");
var content = Files.readString(fileName);

Please note, the content of this post has been copied and modified from the Spring website.

SELECT​

public int test() {
    var sql = "select count(*) from product";
    return this.jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(sql, Integer.class);
}