For the first ten years of my software career, I was convinced that my deep passion for coding and my expert-level skills in Vanilla JS were all I ...
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Thank you for your insights! I can feel the weight of those decisions in your writing (and I have a few of my own, as well). I think the fact that you took that situation and turned it into a published book is a testament to the kind of strong person you are! 🦅
It's easy to look back and say, things like "I should have known", but until you've lived through some of those mistakes of your own, it's difficult to understand how things like that happen. But they do. Frequently. So, you're not alone in that!
It's not a small thing, either, to take those shortcomings and announce them to the world in such a memorialized way. Then on top of that, spin the whole thing and make it relevant to somebody else's career. Kudos!
I hope this is a success for you! 💕
Thank you for your kind words.
Wow! Those 1-2-3 points are so on point! That’s exactly how I realized — the hard way — that I should have been learning and improving after spending 5-6 years just running in circles in the industry. Really insightful post!
Kudos on the book, by the way. The cover looks great! Hope it’s doing well!
Thank you for your kind words. The book is new, so it has yet to make any sales. But I believe it will pick up soon. Thank you.
The question I have is what were you learning for ten years if you didn't follow the javascript evolution? Javascript is a slow moving language.
I did JavaScript ->PHP( I spent a lot of time on PHP)->Python. I then went into desktop application programming with Python. When I first learn javascript that was about 15 years ago, and it was JQuery. Later there was also AngularJS. I did none of these frameworks. I also did Drupal along the way.
Is it fair to assume you did more backend work than frontend work, based on your comment?
So what makes you a javascript expert? The post implies you only did frontend work.
At that time, I did every Javascript lesson on w3schools. I thought that was all there was to it, until the job test asked my about validating input forms in javascript.
I feel you set yourself up for failure.
I went on the self taught path, and I never stopped learning since. I have gathered a lot of knowledge and I still don't call myself an expert, because there are still many things I don't know nothing about.
I didn't know that there was more than I didn't know. W3Schools if you don't know boast as the creators of the web. So if they were done, I was done. I didn't know there was more.
Thinking you are done is your failure. No one has all the knowledge, whatever they want you to believe.
Being curious makes you a good programmer, not languages or frameworks or stacks.
I hope you are learning new things now.
Yes, I am. Thank you.
Thank you for you honest works. I saw myself like this a while ago.