- Are you sitting around calculating or trying to calculate
the number of hours you need
to spend studying to become a programmer?
If so, then this video is made just for you, stay tuned.
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Hi, I'm Tim Buchalka and thanks
for checking out this video.
So, a common question that I get from my students
goes something along the lines of this,
they'll say something like, Tim, how many hours
do I need to put in to study this material
so that I can get my first programming job?
Well I'm here to say that unfortunately,
you're looking at things around the wrong way.
Really, the focus shouldn't be
on how many hours it's going to take.
You should just be focusing on actually doing the work
and completing the course.
If you try and figure out or say to yourself,
well I need to spend 50 hours to become a programmer,
you're gonna be focusing on trying to compact everything
down into that 50 hours no matter what.
So, you might not put in the time that you need
to put into complete a coding exercise.
You might not watch a video two or three times
to truly understand it.
And that's because you're continually looking
at your watch all the time to make sure
that you're finishing at a certain time.
The reality is that people learn at different speeds.
Some people absorb content and learn things
at a faster rate than other people.
Some people have got more hours to spend each day
learning material.
That's just the way it is.
So, my suggestion to you is don't try and figure out
down to the hour, how many hours you need.
Rather say to yourself, when I take this course,
or when I start this study,
I wanna be doing it to become a programmer,
I'm gonna complete it no matter what.
And I'm gonna make sure that as I go through the process
I'm gonna completely understand those concepts
taught in a particular video or an ebook or whatever it is
before I move on to the next stage.
If you do that, and get right through to the end
of the material, you will be or will have
the skills basically to be a really productive programmer
because you've understood the concepts.
If you're rushing through trying to beat a deadline
invariably you're going to miss things,
you're gonna miss important things
and that may well really sabotage your future learning.
So, take your time, make sure you go through all
the study material and really absorb it and learn it.
And just think of the analogy
of learning to drive car, or learning to ride a bike.
When you start learning to ride a bike for the time,
you don't immediately say to yourself,
how many hour or minutes is this gonna take
before I can learn to ride a bike?
What you do is you get on the bike
and you start riding.
And you get better and better at it,
and over time you become very competent
and a very good bike rider.
And same with driving the car, like driving a car.
The first time you actually do it,
you're probably fairly slow, and things are hard
you can't remember where the clutch is,
you're trying to change gears and so forth.
And it's hard to absorb everything,
and you know, the stalling the car et cetera.
So, take a step back with your programming
and just say to yourself okay,
I'm just going to take as long
as I need to really understand this material.
And by doing that, ultimately,
then putting that amount in your study,
you're gonna become a more productive programmer
and get that programming job.
Alright, so, that's my video for today.
I hope you got a little out of it,
and I'll see you in the next video.
Alrighty, so, I hope that helped.
If you've got any questions, feel free to leave a comment
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