How to become a software app developer | Interview with @bdougie

How to become a software app developer | Interview with Brian Douglas Contact Brian: Website: https://bdougie.live/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bdougieyo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/bdougie GitHub: https://github.com/bdougie/live BDougie's Bio: Brian is a Developer Advocate at GitHub and the host of the JAMstack Radio podcast. He focuses his day to day work on JavaScript development. He previously had a career in sales before turning to his true love, coding. After quickly honing his engineering skills he has since worked as both engineer and mentor to others also looking to make a similar career change. --------- Contents of this interview -------- 00:00 - Intro 00:08 - Interview starts 00:20 - Du'An introduces Brian 01:34 - You have never submitted a resume but you have interviewed for positions. Have you ever been denied a position? 04:25 - Let's talk about your background, can we talk about how you got started in coding? 10:16 - Did you have a mentor while learning to code? 13:44 - When you had your mentor you had the initiative to try it first and get stuck before asking for help. I think people miss that especially early, you know what I mean? 17:19 - Providing value is important, especially when you start talking promotions and raises 21:43 - For people that want to take the mentorship path, do you recommend paying $5,000 to get a mentor and starting coding? 23:59 - Did you sell your app? What did you end up doing with it? 27:14 - You have Twitter, Youtube, and Github accounts with open source, what is that project repo? 28:07 - For someone that wants to contribute and be a part of that to learn and grow, what's your suggestion and how can they sign up? 31:36 - Did you put your app on Android or iPhone? 32:24 - With Apple, you can have a developer account to be able to create apps and put them on your phone without hosting on the app store, correct? 33:14 - For someone getting started, which language would you recommend? How do you balance all these different languages? 37:13 - You learn new skills with each language that you code in, is that true? 39:47 - For network engineers, there's a lot of things such as certification tests for interviews that you have to memorize. It seems for software developers it's more so "can you think like a developer?". 41:51 - When you write code, do you unit test your code, or is that required? When does it come to play for developers? 43:37 - I saw that you had Jamstack, is that something you created? 44:37 - How many tools do we need to know in order to be successful in this field? 50:26 - For someone to take you under their wings and show you a language that's about to blow up, that's a blessing 52:22 - How do you find out which language is great for whatever project you wanna work on? 56:22 - In business, they do the aesthetics and marketing really well 01:00:53 - bdougie.live, what did you use to build it? 01:02:02 - Your website is a static site right? 01:03:05 - If you wanna make your websites look good, Javascript is the way to go? 01:06:24 - That's like UX and UI right? 01:08:19 - You mentioned CSS, that's something I would integrate with Django or Flask to do the styling of my Frontend API? 01:10:59 - What advice do you have for others that are coming into the field? 01:18:11 - Hey Bdougie, you wanna take us out today? 01:18:18 - Outro 📚Python Books: Python Crash Course: https://amzn.to/3msr2Ce Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: https://amzn.to/3msk2F6 Mastering Python Networking: https://amzn.to/3msRzzg Python for Kids: https://amzn.to/2XSl1nZ Grokking Algorithms: https://amzn.to/3Db2nrB 📚Books I am reading: Black Fortunes:https://amzn.to/3jaPc1N Deep Work: https://amzn.to/3j9qRcI A Man and His Watch: https://amzn.to/3j9kAO5 Basquiat: https://amzn.to/2WiUMqm Black Titan: https://amzn.to/3jhbaAx ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Du'An Lightfoot on Social Media: https://twitter.com/labeveryday DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support! #LabEveryday #BDougie #opensauced