- Are you just starting out
in your journey to become a programmer
or maybe thinking about starting out?
If so, then this video is
gonna be right up your alley.
Stay tuned.
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Hi, my name is Tim Buchalka
and thanks for checking out this video.
So, another common question
I get in my courses
from students goes along,
or goes something like this,
Tim, I'm taking your
Java Masterclass course,
or my C# course or
Python course, et cetera,
and I wanna get into these technologies,
and there's a list of
various technologies,
which way should I go?
Which course should I study?
Which courses after
this one should I study?
And do you recommend this
particular career path
or that career path?
My answer to that is, oh, slow down.
Take a step backwards
and really try and focus on
completing your first course.
So again, if you've taken a Java course
or a Python course, et cetera,
number one priority is to
finish that course first.
You can start mapping out
where you're gonna go in
the future after that.
And in actual, as you go through
and gain more experience as a programmer,
you'll find that your choices may change.
So if you sat down
when you first started
out on your journey,
your very first programming course,
and try to map out the
way you want it to be,
you'll probably find towards
the end of that first course,
once you got the basic understanding
of a programming language under your belt
that you'll change your mind.
You might decide, for example,
to get into mobile app development
or you might decide to get
into web app development,
desktop applications, whatever it is.
So, the point is don't try and
think so far into the future
when you're just learning
to become a programmer.
Focus on learning the basics first
and at the end of that first course
or that first chunk of training,
when you've got some
experience with the language
under your belt, then
start thinking about it.
All righty, so I hope that helped.
If you've got any questions,
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