From Novice to Expert, I will share my personal experience starting from a absolute beginner to a job ready programmer,
A job ready programmer is not who knows everything but the programmer who knows how to deal with a problem is a efficient programmer.
To be a efficient programmer you have to know how to deal with the problems and bugs which forms during your programming,
Best practice for being a good efficient programmer is practice, practice and practice, “Practice makes a man perfect”.
Dividing journey from Novice to Expert in 3 parts.
1. Beginner
If you are beginner you should not focus to learn more and more but you should focus on a single thing at a time and learn its basics and move on not waste your time with the topics you can’t understand at this level of your life, and
repeat the same task of learning more technologies basics.
Some recommendations to learn as a beginner in upcoming year 2025
- Focus on theory as well as practicals
- Make fun projects which will help you build self confidence.
- Fun Projects: Stone, paper, scissor game | Web scraping | etc.
2. Intermediate
If you are intermediate programmer who knows what is programming language, what is coding, what is syntax, conditional programing, functions, methods, exceptions and error handling.
If you are this level of programmer you should move further with a aim to achieve expertise in other technologies like different programming languages, learning about git, GitHub, Web hosting, how a server works, etc.
You should also make projects which helps you generating will power and confidence these are some example projects you should make as a intermediate programmer.
- Personal Virtual Assistant with the help of conditional programming using if-else conditioning and switch case statements.
- Flappy Bird Game with the help of pygame library in python, I will also provide pygame blog in my website soon, stay tuned to learn everything about pygame with ease.
- To Do List
- Reminder Application | Alarm Application
- Calculator
3. Advance level Programmer
If you are a advance level programmer you have to be sharp minded, there is a phrase which is like, it defines a true definition of smart and intelligent the phrase is like,
“If there are two men and one knows everything about a topic but the second one knows the place where he can find everything about the topic“,
the second one is more smart and intelligent because he doesn’t wastes his time in learning so much about the topic instead he chooses to gain knowledge about the platform on which he can find out everything about a topic.
As a Advance level programmer you should have enhanced problem solving skill if not then try to have it.
Skills which can help you go further after advance level
- Web server management, Flask, Django, React
- SQL(Structured Query Language), MongoDB
- Computer Networks | Algorithms | Data structures
Myth
A very popular myth about programming is mathematics is compulsory to be a programmer so the straight answer is no,
Mathematics is important for programming but not in every field of programming there are many fields in programming like web development, database management, server management, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Git, GitHub, etc.
To learn these technologies you don’t have to be expert in mathematics you have to learn mathematics in some circumstances like if you are willing to be a game developer where you have to use physics laws, math formulas,
or if you are willing to be a physics and mathematics related application like operating system or something else then only you have to learn about mathematics.
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