tanganian
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Not MOOCs but college courses open to audit. Hands down the 3 introduction courses at UC Berkeley: CS61A, CS61B, CS61C. It's CS50 on steroids, spread across 3 courses. Tried a lot of things before finding those, nothing comes close.
Prep for LeetCode in order to pass interviews (self-taught).
I'm also learning on my own, I don't have a particular book but a course to suggest:
https://sp21.datastructur.es/. It's pretty good for a first encounter.
I'm learning Computer Science by auditing University of California, Berkeley CS61A, CS61B, CS61C. Later I will be learning web developement through Full Stack Open.
Do you know where someone can find other such stories? In more details if possible.
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tanganian on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:47AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm just a random dude from a poor African country. I'm currently living in France, working in management, and attempting to switch career, going into the tech world. Since then, my news feed is bloated with different offers of teachings and courses form everywhere, including my own country. The thing is, most of it sucks, just randoms thinking they can teach, bootcamp that gets nowhere and so...
Can get my hands on the 2nd edition for cheap, or is the 3rd edition required? It's quite expensive.
> I'm willing to pay top money for top work
How much is top money for you? Maybe that's where the problem is.
I'm looking to work for a US/EU company, from where I live. I'll take a look at the reddit thread, thanks. For now, I target small companies from AngelList + the who is hiring thread from HN. What do you mean by coding background?
Not strictly FAANG related. How do I get my resume past HR or even noticed a little bit? I'm self taught, from a third world country. In the US knowing HTML/CSS/JS Framework gets you a job, so its not skill that holds me down. I'm working on my portfolio right now to make it more professionnal, but apart fom that? Any input would be appreciated. What would you suggest if I'm looking for a US/EU job?
Scams aren't supposed to last long, no surprise.
Well done mate, you're an inspiration. In a few years you'll get that FAANG job if you want it, finger crossed.
The problem for me in getting a local job, is I have to go back home (I'm from a poor African country, there are no jobs there and if there are the pay is "shit"). I live in France right now, they are not so so keen on the remote thing, plus the fact that they still really care about degrees, mine is in business. What hires the most, back or front end? I'm leaning more toward back end stuff as I find it more fun, but I would change if it affects my chance of getting a job.
What's your background by the way? STEM or completely unrelated? How hard is it for them to hire a contractor? Does it involve a lot of paperwork? An on my side, what do I have to do? How about part-time jobs?
PS: Shoot me an e-mail, I'd like to stay in contact with you if that's ok.
Fine by me. My first question is about salary. I don't know if you OK talking about that publicly or even privately, and if not can you give a ballpark compared to a US dev living in the us for example? My expectation are low, if any company would want to hire me for $27.000 I would sign without any hesitation given I'm qualified enough. Second one was about Jrs but I saw you answered that already. Lastly, any tips on getting that first job and be more marketable? What stacks hires the most? What are the exceptions towards a junior dev these days?
Do you mind sharing your story and how you did it in more details? So I can copy and do the same later.
Hey, can we chat about this in more details? I'm in a situation where I'm looking for a job from a US or EU company, would be really helpful to have your input as you already did it.
The Foundations of Mathematics - Ian Stewart.
I wouldn't say it taught me the most, but more like it opened the door so I could learn the most out of everything after it.
A part-time remote job from a developed country. It would enable me to do what a I really want, it's just a step towards my real goal. So what do I really want? Well: taking care of my vegetable garden, code random useless stuff but somehow it brings me joy, just messing around with computers, spend more time with my fiancee like we used to do in college days.