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SourYoghurt:
Thank you Alpha, I am yet to start SB, I am currently learning Java, I will bookmark and check back when I start SB. I am grateful

SourYoghurt:



you can ignore my question if you do not want doxx yourself, are you building in the banking/finance sector?

trytillmake:
Built a couple for those sectors on c#.
Kudos on yr learning journey, try check this materials I posted, I guarantee it will really help u also I believe u can move faster with
videos, with videos u can see, learn, test and get results from yr code immediately, u can cover the basics fast also with advanced.
U can now go more with books if the videos don't cover it.

Kaczynski:
learning with videos is a imbibing yourself with disaster.

trytillmake:
So all them Udemy, coursera, edX, Skillshare even YouTube and other video learning sites dem no get sense abi, people no dey use them abi.
The one u know use it don't castigate others,

SourYoghurt:
I am struggling to maintain speed like I planned, my allergies has been a constant hindrance, I was okay until I went out to pick Aliexpress package and they are currently fixing the road leading to the pick up centre so there so much dust that my hairline was looking like that meme that trended a few years ago in East Africa I have attached the image, The past 3 days was hell, I was sneezing and my eyes were reddd, itchy, watery and visible tiny veins popping out, my friend who is a baby dockay asked me to take Piriton. I think I am better but I am just round off chapter 10, no sawama


I do not know if it was my health, I struggle a lot with this polymorphism, I know what it means and what it does but I do not know but some surface rules are slipping through my fingers, hopefully the self exercises part reinforces it. I met some indian dude on a discord sever and they said I have wasted too much time learning that I should have moved on to SpringBoot already, guess what, he is a learner like me but I just told him okay, he sent an AI generated TOC and that thing be combining 2 chapters in 1 week, lol.

He might be right, two truth can coexist, but me I am not that smart like t

hat and it is disastrous to use American people's effort to judge myself when my location and Identity has set me back 4 points behind. with minimal effort, if Rahul an HR or CTO is trying to hire and is stuck between me a minimal effort candidate and his brother Dhruv a minimal effort candidate too, he will gladly pick Dhruv because they have relatable connection( yes, I will do the same and you might too). I am saying all these because I find his opinion to be dangerous because if i follow his advice, I can rush things and jump into spring and struggle and start feeling, "maybe it was the bit that i skipped" so I will take my time, if i will do this until August 2026, that is fine. my goal is to become good and know why x behaves the way it does not a developer that can make it work but not how it works.

Advent of Code is starting in less than 20hrs, I will jump on it and see if i can solve a few with Java. I will share my solution in a separate thread. sir Seun, I hope that will not get me banned?

Time to start solving exercises.

Kaczynski:
Na advent of code day give me morale these days with my fav lisp and c++

SourYoghurt:
This is my first shot sha, I want to see if it is something i can handle, I read the FAQ, the creator stated using AI is a "NO" so that is a good thing and I think it is a 12 days challenge.

Kaczynski:
its just like leet code but more fun if you know your basics like dsa

Seun:
We are rooting for you.

SourYoghurt:
Thank you Alpha, I am yet to start SB, I am currently learning Java, I will bookmark and check back when I start SB. I am grateful

qtguru:
The Java you know is enough for Spring boot, once you've covered classes, interfaces , collections and generics you are safe to try SB, The rest of things to learn would mostly be around J2EE and not J2SE like that

SourYoghurt:
Last week has been slow still stuck in chapter 10, my learning hour - I wrote a script that tracks my screen time in my LM PC has been less than 5 hrs for the PDF reader and the IntelliJ. I am not going to beat myself up. there were days I was progressively fast and grasping thing and most importantly, I am literally learning a new language fgs.

I am happy for my "former" friend she texted me she got a job on Upwork although she bought connect to land them. I did not ask further for details so that it does not seem like I am establishing a severed connection.

On the positive side, I am in day 4 of AOC using JavaScript. I dun abandoned Java, I will hopefully use Java in 2026. I struggled on day 2 for almost 2 days. It has made me realise that I have skills issues and my DSA is shiiiiiiittttttttttttt.

Well, new week is upon us and I am hopeful it is productive.

SourYoghurt:
hello qtguru thanks for stopping by, I am sharing screenshot of the TOC of the text. I am currently in chap 11, I'll skip 12 and 13... But if I decide to jump into SB, what about multi threading and several other topics?

Kaczynski:
Work on your DSA


Start with sicp and compiler red dragon book , mit lectures on algorithms also helps.

SourYoghurt:
WHAT IS MY GOAL IN DOING THIS?

I see all my career egbon and majority are with writing SpringBoot or .NET and they live the kind of life i admire and want so, who know my case will not be different.
1. I want to become a proper fullstack developer with two languages JavaScript(React, Svelte and TS) for FE and Java(SB) for BE.

2. I want to develop for enterprise and JavaScript does not seem like a language that will give me that opportunity(Even if it will, I won't be interested in using it because I am "bored" of the language, I need to chase a new high of another language).

3. I believe, I want to explore life outside JS ecosystem.

4. "I did it before, I can do it again" the learning curve of Java is steep so I believe if i spend the next 10 months which is over 1,500 learning and building stuff, I might get lucky again and get an enterprise job, my target market are eastern EU, some Latin America countries, Kenya(I am in my Nairobi arc lately), Kremlin and a few local Banks and Fintech in Nigeria .

qtguru:
I think reading sicp and compiler red dragon book is a waste of time, his goal is to be an Enterprise dev not a system programmer, this is something you read, if you are that passionate about low-level. But the MIT is not a bad idea though

Laryfrosh:
Hello Boss, I once stumbled upon a quote someone made on your comment here on NL, where the person was advising about SF, and how he got deep into it in Canada, and is still getting something out of it even while in Nigeria.
I have been trying to get back to the quote but I can't find it. Could you please check your mentions and share, so I can get to see it again? Thanks

qtguru:
https://www.nairaland.com/1016929/diaries-section-chat-room/1335#137751925