Devin the Developer

A comic nerd 🕸️ video game nerd 🎮 and movie nerd 🍿 trying to become a code nerd 👨‍💻 I share tips and tricks for new developers

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@lovelacecoding If you have all day and a couple of keyboards to spare...still no

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@SimonHoiberg The third option, people who love/hate CSS

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@TreciaKS The problem-solving aspect of it.

...and the pay, which is also problem-solving 😅

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Whether you use those skills to hop to a better job or towards your own projects doesn't matter.

Just make sure you take advantage whenever you are. You're only helping your future self.

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Soak up as much as you possibly can in your current position.

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This first job is game-changing.

Once you get into the industry you realize how easy it is to move around within it.

#webdevelopment

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As far as first jobs go, I couldn't have asked for a better one.

I also found out that I'll be diving into Salesforce marketing cloud, which will open so many doors in the future.

I really lucked out on this one 😁

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I also found out that once I'm converted to full-time from contract in a month or two, I'll be able to go full remote, which would be INCREDIBLE

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Had an excellent first day at the job!

Definitely a bit overwhelming but thanks to coding I'm used to feeling lost 😅

Excited to get into the swing of things and find my flow

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@codinguchiha Thanks man! Appreciate it. I had 4 projects total. 3 emails and 1 landing page. I'm gonna post them here but if you wanna take a look now they're all on my portfolio website that's linked in my bio.

This job is hybrid. Not ideal but it's a great opportunity so it's worth it.

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For people who feel overwhelmed when they see how much they "need" to learn to become a developer:

I just got my first developer job after 3 months of focused learning.

All I needed was HTML, CSS and some good projects.

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@DThompsonDev It's kind of funny, even just explaining my code to family and friends (people who don't code at all) STILL helped me understand it more.

I'm pretty sure just saying it out loud to yourself would help lol

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@codingphase just got my first job thanks to you man!

Sent you an email for the hall of fame.

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@DThompsonDev Totally agree. Got some great advice from @codingphase when he said to listen to the people with the same history as you.

I don't have a degree or any tech experience.

Advice from someone who went to an ivy league about how they did it doesn't help me.

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I plan to get to front-end eventually, but until I get there, why not get paid to learn?

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Got my first developer job!

I start Monday as an HTML email developer.

Took a lot of work to get here but it was so worth it.

I'll be tweeting about what helped me get here in the coming days.

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Almost done with the new portfolio! Loving it so far.

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I really underestimated how much time Foundation would save me with building these emails.

My first project with no framework took me like two days. This one, a couple hours 👌

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No better feeling than feeling like you really "get" something you learned

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Another day, another 30 mins spent staring at code trying to figure out why things aren't working.

Today, I forgot the 's' in 'columns' 😑