7 posts tagged with "Getting Started"

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.