My Unconventional Coding Story | Self-Taught

Travis Media February 19, 2023
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Hi, my name is Travis and I am a self-taught software developer of 7 years. I learned to code and stepped out as a full-time freelance within 1 year. Since then I have entertained full-stack development, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering and have documented my journey here on the channel. Here you'll find coding tutorials, career advice, professional coding tips, life hacks, and the ups and downs of this highly enriching journey of software engineering. I make videos specifically for YOU and if there is anything specific you would like to request please don't hesitate to ask. If all this sounds like something that can help you on your own coding journey, consider subscribing and joining me along the way! Kind Regards, Travis

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In this video, I'll share my coding story, and how I learned to code and successfully changed careers to software engineering. When I was first learning to code, I really found these "testimonies" very helpful. The struggles, tips, and just hearing others succeed at learning to code served as a huge encouragement to me. I'll discuss what I did before coding, my first exposure to code, learning to code, and the various jobs that followed. We'll discuss what I learned in each step, my successes, and failures, and how you may be able to apply the same tactics to help you in your journey. Tune in! Subscribe to my brand new weekly programming/tech newsletter - https://geni.us/AJ91eMh Join our thriving Coding Community - https://travis.media/community/ Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:29 Before learning to code 03:20 10 Years Wasted 04:47 First exposure to coding 07:01 Learning to code 09:46 Upwork side jobs 11:03 Dropping out of bootcamp 11:20 Going full-time freelancing 15:28 From freelance to software engineer 20:19 Transitioning to Site Reliability Engineering 24:42 Transitioning to Developer Relations 26:25 Outro Join the coding community: https://travis.media/community ** Career Path Coding Tracks ** Web Developer - https://geni.us/jBigBd Software Engineer - https://geni.us/AbMxjrX Machine Learning - https://geni.us/GporLlT Python Developer - https://geni.us/tv2FJBU DevOps Engineer - https://geni.us/MgHtJ ** My Coding Blueprints ** Learn to Code Web Developer Blueprint - https://geni.us/HoswN2 AWS/Python Blueprint - https://geni.us/yGlFaRe ** I write regularly ** https://travis.media ** FREE EBOOKS ** 📘 https://travis.media/ebooks LET'S CONNECT! 📰 LinkedIn ➔ https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisdot... 🐦 Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/travisdotmedia​ 🙋🏼‍♂️ Website ➔ https://travis.media #selftaughtdeveloper #coding #careerchange #learntocode ** Some of the links in this description may be affiliate links that I may get a little cut of. Thank you.

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