More grease to your elbow comrade.
Stay prepared for the journey ahead it's worth doing, just don't give up.

Many of these pros are realizing how disposable they were working for the large tech companies and will be looking for opportunities to feel more valued... It's not just tech.

It wasn't a hack and none of their customers lost 50kobo.

Possible1805:
Hi

The peer pressure currently is just too much, people mentality is that traveling is the best option, my partn er started giving me pressure to move out of the country too at the other end am not seeing that as an achievement I mean she expect me to leave a job I created by myself 6years ago in nigeria that is currently fetching me at least 2-3m monthly to japa, if I do will loose all customers because the job is competitive, and for over 6year now I work from home, lose that kind of job and go to Uk as in what kind of job will fetch me 2-3m monthly savings in the Uk.

Now my partner will be looking at me as an enemy of progress, the skills I have is only plumbing work skills i most do that as a side job in nigeria here I only attend to big job, japa is not for everyone you people should stop looking at it as a big achievement… and stop calculating you earning In naija just to say that you better off over there… we all cannot leave nigeria, after you will be saying if you cannot do it for yourself do it because of your children ABEG and what of my mental health…. Please stop calling NIGERIA shithole

What do you think I should do?

Use 23hrs or your day to fear women and the remaining 1hr to remind others to do so

Should you fail on the journey, she'll be the first to blame you, compare you to your mates or possibly leave you for someone better

Make she no sweet talk your 6yrs of hardwork into a hopeless plan!!

This one go make sense... I don pitch my tent here!!

Mahnn!! It's a never-ending ancestral mentality!

I asked some friends what their family planning was gonna be like... And they went
"at least 5 is good"

Why??
"Cause their siblings are also 5 in number"

Someothers see it as a means to escape poverty...
As in, they'll have their kids get involved in so many different sort of things to survive, then if MAYBE one becomes successful tomorrow, he'll help the others.

The moment you came on NL to blast about your new laptop and how you've become a C++ master... I just knew you were ready but not prepared!!

Here you are to attest to that...

I swear if I never gave up on saving that money for this laptop, nothing can make me give up on programming, not even C++.

Be calming down, plan your life well before you take your decisions, else you'll come back again screaming how yahoo itself is a scam!

So, change the title to
"Your personal perspective about reading books"

Or
" Why you've always hated reading books"

Don't misguide anyone!!

Let me break this down for you
Let assume this first page is ur brain and when u read one book there is one dot on Ur brain….
{image 1}



A line between dots represents a connection between ideas.
{image 2}



Reading books gives your brain more dots to work with...
{image 3}



Then, it helps you connect these dots
{image 4}


The more connections you have, the more understanding you develop both logically, spatially and otherwise...

To think that the old man is a professor and a father...!
He deserves to be disciplined behind tiny cells
Senseless human being!!!
He could have settled the matter between the 2 girls instead his own got worse

He deserves to be charged with
Illegal abduction
Sexual harassment &
Attempted murder.

ProfAyomi:
I made an update yesterday, a long one but naira land wiped it off .

So I have been working mostly on javascript. W3s is really under rated, especially their videos, that's what I have been using as my video resource after I finished Mosh's introduction to Javascript.

Basically, I'm more of a book person. I read pdf more than I use videos. So I focused on reading 20 pages each of eloquent JavaScript and Head first Javascript.

What I do is to watch at least an hour of video daily, 20 pages each of pdfs and then write codes for minimum of 3 hours daily. Sometimes I feel like a zombie just going through the rounds but consistency and discipline and the fact that I signed a contract already is keeping me going.

What I have notice is that, programming takes time, you can't force the process, sometimes I feel very dumb especially when learning some concepts, but when I wake or maybe while doing some task unrelated to coding, I get this flash bulb moments when the pieces starts to fall in line. My mind is so consumed with programming that I try to mentally replay the tutorial I watched the previous night in my head. So far, it's been working.

Must say this, I don't know anything, I'm not special, I'm just lucky, lucky to have a lot of gurus around me, I'm always the dumbest in most groups I'm in. When the technical margins and arguments on what the shortest possible runtime should be, I just stand aside and soak it all in, sometimes, I chip in my little baby ideas and they all tend to notice and want to help out. Yesterday, I got 2 guys, one from Cameroon, the other from South Africa each doing a one hour zoom meet with me to explain some concept.

I have realised this in programming, you can the the most senior and still feel like a noob sometimes. And I have gotten very good at googling, just that I type out my answer instead of just pasting it.

Funny thing is that I hate front end with passion, and having to learn CSS isn't so romantic, just wish I can float through and still known enough to google my way out of problems. Also did something over my head this week, the company I work for review my CV and out of curiosity, I applied for 2 jobs, one as an intern, the other as a junior dev.

I got to the interview stage but the i was surprised that a company will ask DSA questions from an intern, in was able to solve the first one, something about using recursion to solve a Fibonacci concept, I can't even remember again. But I know I but I remember that during one of our numerous harkerrank exercises on the group I had seen something like that before. I did it C language, instill don't know what it means at all. I have a photographic memory and was able to type it out line by line, when asked to explain why I did that, I became dumb, the interviewer was like, "calm forn, i know you are under pressure, you can try to explain it later, but can you refactor it?"

In my head I was like refactor what? What I don't even know what it means. Anyways, I was given another DSA question about blackjack, I told them, I don't know what blackjack is nor how to play it because I'm not a gambler. They said no problem, and one of them used 10 minutes to explain what it means and how its played. The more he talked the more confused I became.

He then afterwards repeated the question, at this point I couldn't hear anything again, my head was spinning and I couldn't think anymore. I started questioning my sanity. Then they said, lets just go back to some regular coding challenge. They asked me what complex coding challenge I have done. I said I have built my own printf function in C and was working on building my own shell. Mind you, this was a project in Alx. I wont say I understand it very well but I at least could replicate it without using the standard library.

After an hour plus of sweating. He said, what I just did was supposed to be done in more than one hour. I told them I was learning in a coding school, at this point he asked " how long have you been doing this for? And be honest." I told them 2 months, give or take. Then one of them replied, whats your IQ, me that didn't even know just said 180. I could swear I heard them all gasp. In my mind I was like, have I said something wrong. They were like ok. Can we get back to you later. We will be in touch.

I couldn't even think much about it. I was having another interview the next day and also a presentation at work new project so I just started preparing for it. That night, I went check what IQ of 180 means and even me gasp, there is no way I am a genius. Simple maths can make me disorganized sometimes sef. The second interview was a disaster but they said they would get back to me.

Meanwhile, I had to go back and check that blackjack stuff again, I wrote a pseudo code and algorithm for it. Will share when I have the time again.

Now my lesson from this week, just 2 months in and I think I am moving too fast, programming is a journey,it's a process that shouldn't be rushed, it's better to understand the concept rather than rote memorization.

2. Don't go near DSA unless you have a good working knowledge of low level language or python or Javascript or Java. You won't understand much,

3. Having a high IQ is the biggest cheat in programming. I don't have it ooooo

4. Make an effort to meet those ahead of you and ask questions, make new connections and give value too. I was able to teach 2 people something I have learnt before and I love the joy I got from it. I also understood the concept more.

5. Don't learn how to code. Learn how the mind of a programmer works. And codingnwill be like a simple puzzle instead of an impossible mission of cramming syntax and keywords.

6. Build projects with the little knowledge you know, when you run into problems , use google and continue, if you don't understand ask those ahead of you.


## the first company sent a reply, they would do another video session with me. I don't know what it is about. But for now, I wont apply for jobs anymore and focus more on learning. The company training me won't even allow me leave until I have worked for them for 6 months.

Your experience is both inspiring and humorous.
I used to think they don't get to ask DSA questions to juniors, but this shows that no matter what role you're in, just learn it.

At least, the very basics
Thanks to our bosses here, they've shown the way, it's left for us to follow

I'm looking to meet with a few tops as well, do you mind sharing the link in pm.

SavageBoy:
I did my finding also and I realized that tensazangetsu20 and TastyFriedPussy are the same person

Lol
@ Tensazangetsu20
@ TastyFriedPussy
Food is ready!

The design is epic indeed... Love the idea
Try make the site load abit faster, at first I felt those were random texts and comments not until the images started to show up

Blanche quite observant

Are you a comedian or just this dumb

Well done boss... I bet the experience will stick around for good

Take your chances bro. Might be a good opportunity
Even if it doesn't go well, at least you'll learn from the experience

Congrats on your pc... It's not much but it'll really go a long way for you

Alx na your mate?!

airsaylongcome is right. These companies would actually prefer the top few than having tens of thousands with nothin to show.
I think that's where desaturation comes into play
The more chances they'll have to pick those with the right skills they're looking for.

Add me up Chief
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AustainoPatrick:
You guys should stop this nonsense, allow someone to make his choice. He did not stop any of you from studying medicine and surgery.

If you think you can do it just like him go write jamb and start med school, that is if you have what it takes.

Medicine is for everybody that has what it takes likewise tech.

Stop being bitter over someone's else achievement.

You people should bring up positive energy here please.

No reason am!
The guy na comedian

Wild bro??!

You sure you didn't make a mistake in the word "2 years" to "2 weeks" coding...? Lol!!

Keep up the vibe

LienwaltAbel:

I don't think learning to speak Chinese is hard. Lots of people have said that the problem comes from writing it just like Japanese, but I could be wrong. Kana is really easy to learn. I wish I could go back to learning Japanese but I'm too busy.

Writing Chinese??!
That can be brain-tasking tbh

Lol, Chinese has alot of weird looking characters when put together to form a single word

It's the hardest, even Asians in general consider it difficult to learn unlike Kana

The basic characters that get you smiling at your progress

Anyway, if you can commit an hour or two a day it's also gonna do

Just join some groups and download newbie learning apps on mobile, might help.

Just learn as much as you can. Learn the basics that's what will help you understand better

No need to master all at once but try understand the basics

LienwaltAbel:
TL; DR : Forget about japaing to Japan if you can't devote tons of hours of your time to learning how to read, write and speak Japanese.

Now the Japanese speak only Japanese. Well, this doesn't seem like much, but it is much. You have to learn Japanese to be able to have day to day conversations with people, read billboards and signs, and most importantly: get a job or even school there. Japanese in Japan is as essential as water. So what do you do. You can change your dream country probably to New Zealand, Australia or whatever English speaking country you love or you could sit down and learn this piece of shite of a language.

Japanese is easy to speak. Within a month (of dedicated learning) you'd be quite comfortable with it. Just like me. Ohaiyō gozaimasu, Watashi wa Eiberu desu. This means Good morning, I am Abel. Note that I changed the spelling of my name because the Japanese usually change English names to suit their tongue.

Since it seems so easy, why am I making it look hard? Number one, Japanese don't use the Latin alphabet at all. So that crap I wrote up there is shit. Number two, the writing system of the Japanese is extremely difficult to master.

Japanese has two writing systems: kana and Kanji. Kana is further divided into hiragana and katakana while kanji is just kanji. Kana is easy as it is very close to the alphabet system of writing and is kind of constant (what you read is what you pronounce) but kanji on the other hand is just silly.

Kanji was directly copied from the Chinese hanzhi system centuries ago before kana was made by a Japanese Buddhist monk. İt is like the Egyptian hieroglyphics, but instead of having nice beautiful wholesome drawings, you have some ugly set of characters that require you to decrypt their meanings. The worst thing about kanji is not even how silly and unrelated the characters are to their meanings most of the time, the worst thing about it is it's unbelievable size. This piece of shite of a system has over 5000 characters/radicals and hell even after learning the so-called 3000 or 2500 average, you'd still meet a new one one day. Oh and I forgot to mention another annoying shit about the kanji system: it's pronunciation when used in a word is hardly ever consistent. For example this character 日 is normally pronounced nichi, but in this word 日本 it becomes Nihon that is Japan. This looks easy but what about this 3日, it's pronunciation is now jitsu. you see, this is even worse than English's terrible spelling system.

Having said this, if you have two years to waste, you can waste it learning Japanese or you can learn something like German or Finnish and head to these countries (i think Finnish is easier). However, you could just go to an English speaking country and put the work aside.

I used to learn this stuff with a friend back then in secondary school. I was more focused on Japanese and knew a little of Korean
While my friend was very good at Korean and just knew some phrases in Japanese

We did it for the fun of learning a foreign language.

I learned more of hiragana, "a fragmentary kana" for more than a year

This led me to making alot of Japanese friends, females mostly
Majority of them are naturally warm and welcoming

I would say
- They like it when they see a foreigner trying to learn their language.

They added me up to some of their groups especially for the case of 3 peculiar girls.
Sometimes we had FaceTime, they got to ask alot of cranky questions about us - Nigerians

Lol, was a smooth experience
But in general, I would say learning Japanese isn't so hard especially when compared to something like 'Mandarin Chinese'

Like a saying goes, "If you want to learn a language fast, just learn the insults first

Godoverevery:
So after reading the thread a lady made saying 100k is too small to run a family....I must confess that one myopic thread I have read in awhile.

(Firstly single guys this a serious warning to you all......make sure you never date/marry a ladies who want things they aren't ready to work for)

Earning 100k in lagos isn't the same as Earning 100k in kwara.....cost of living varies from state to state.

How many people have a job that pays above 150k this days People have different side hustle to support there income.

As a man you must be honest with yourself on how you want to run your family based on your income.

No matter how hard we all hustle people will find themselves in lower class,middle class, upper class financially....this classes are not permanent because alot will happen over the years.

Let me use a state like osun or kwara which I have stayed before as an example with 100k Earning.

Rent (2 bed room) =10- 15k per month that about 120-180 per year depending on area of the state.

Food is very cheap in this states so with 20-25k you can buy foodstuff that will last a month.

Transportation is extremely cheap so 10k is okay a month.....depending on the nature of your job or business.

You can conveniently save15-20k every month.

You are left with 25-30k to spend on emergencies or unforseen expenditures.

In this states you will live comfortably with 100k with your wife if you don't live a luxurious lifestyle.

Guys dont let a confuse human being staying in her parent house who feel every part of Nigeria is lagos discourage you from starting a family.

Once you Earning 80-100k constantly you can start a small family....you just need a partner who can assist with 40-50k you are good to go.

When you start having kids you must have save up to easy things.

Guys if you know your family is dependent on you don't marry a lady from a family who are also not financially buoyant.......save yourself stress and burden.

Most of our parents got married with absolutely nothing but today they have houses and cars through hard work and dedication.

We all have our times in life and we are free to choose whichever type of life we want.

There is no one way to living a good life never forget this.

Nigeria doesn't start and end in lagos,Abuja,pH.......alot of families in Nigeria are earnings of 100k and are doing fine.

Lol... Location is all what matters. Just like comparing living a life in NYC with a salary range of $5k and same in a village like naija .

Mahn! The difference is clear
Go to smaller cities in the country you'll see a family earning 100k ,gross, and they be living comfortable, I mean very comfortable!

But not in a city that calls for cost and high standard of living.

TheManOfTheYear:
Hey all.
I finally got my first offer

My base salary is 400k and I'd be resuming as a Frontend Developer for a new startup.

Don't give up.

Congrats Man! You deserve it
Keep up the good work

More wins in advance

Add me up
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niel63:
I consider all these spamming

Are you all in a hurry to post something or you'd rather post something meaningful.

For the umpteenth time, stop ridiculing the programming section of Nairaland.

If you're going to post your frontend journey, by all means, do so when you have something very tangible.

Would you have been confident to post all these if you weren't somehow motivated by somebody's project or journey on this section.

I understand the need to showcase and document your journey... but would you continue to visit quora, devDOTto, medium and other programming sections of popular websites if they were dishing us exactly the same thing you guys are doing here?


I'm sure we all want to learn new stuffs. Let's change the direction of where this is going.

When I open th3 programming section of this forum, I honestly want to see something new, different, innovating or educative stuffs. Instead, first 10... trash trash trash, except when it has a good day.

I'm not trying to talk down your efforts and progress. But be very constructive about it. Be very intentional.

Make we dey try abeg.

Its not, Check out my first html, css and little javascript seriously, which one be little javascript?




I want you to be better that's why I am here.

If na lie, ask TastyFriedPussy... im sure he'll be here soon. If he's not already though.

True though, the guy tried by putting out the effort. Also the forums palatability matters more.

At first I was like, "what the heck is small javascript"

Eitherway this is nairaland not quora�

afuye:
send me ur number i will add u to a group

That will be a great idea boss... Pls add me up on my digits - 09068504694
Thanks

Bestdev1:
Help talk your mind how do you see this design. Is it okay in your own view . Express it out

.
Chiwendusblog.com.ng

Nice idea bro... It's epic
But on first instance, the heading and the way it's weighted seems off
Maybe you should make it bolder and bigger

The gradient is good although the color isn't so perfect.