Are you considering diving into the exciting world of coding? Whether you aspire to become a web developer, data scientist, or app creator, starting your coding journey can be both thrilling and challenging. Learning to code opens up a realm of opportunities, but it’s essential to approach it with a clear plan in mind. In this article, we’ll share ten valuable tips that every coding beginner should know to ensure a successful and fulfilling coding adventure.
Introduction : welcome to the world of coding
As you embark on your coding journey, remember that coding is not just a technical skill; it’s a mindset. Prepare yourself for a journey of continuous learning and problem-solving. The coding world is vast, but it’s also incredibly rewarding.
Getting Started with Programming: A Beginner’s Guide
In this coding blog we are going to talk about ten things that you should know if you are going to start a journey of programming. This coding blog is for everyone. Then are you thinking of starting programming or coding or have you started slowly or are you in the beginner phase?
Choosing Between Service-Based and Product-Based Companies for Placements
You have started a little bit, the first thing you should know in the beginner phase is that with the Indian placement services.
We have two types of companies who come for placement. The first of these is our service. The best companies are those who have a service already built or a product. We provide a service to our customers by highlighting it on top of that. Belonging to various industries
And the second type of companies are our product based companies, which actually work to build a product. Examples of service based companies are, like TCS, wipro, Lasting, Infosys. There are examples of very limited adoption of companies, like Microsoft has happened, Google has happened, Facebook has happened, now the packages of service base companies within the industry are slightly less.
And the packages of the product base company are more than a few, so in this the most interesting friends who are targeting the product base company in the beginning, so let me tell you one thing about them that I am definitely focused on the product base company. When Tenjatayu wants to pour tea to you
If you want to work in a blanket base company then this is what you are looking for. Big MNCs and good companies ask you something called data structure and algorithms in the interview and coding test. Now this data structure and Algorithms if you haven’t heard what that is
For example, if Google is created, Google has some of its own data which it stores and actually there will be some used data from it. We create some data structure and want to use the data.
The Importance of Data Structures and Algorithms in Coding Careers
So for real, when we say that if I want to search the Instagram photo of an Instagram user or I want to search a message on WhatsApp, then the codes that run internally, the algorithms that run, we say algorithms
So we should know the things that how to actually work on data, inside coding, that is why data structures and algorithms, maximum companies ask, product based companies also in interviews and also in coding test because it is a standard, in the industry. to test logic with
To check how strong your command is on programming, so if we are moving forward in coding journey and our target is that we are targeting a big MNC, where we have to work within product based companies, then there But we should be mentally prepared a little in advance that we There, in maximum cases, data structures and algorithms, at least for the initial 5 to 7 years of your career, will be asked, so let us start our preparation in the same way, now here comes another case scenario, in which your startups also come,
Navigating the World of Tech Startups: A Career Perspective
Now startups may be some service based, some product based, then startups hire as per their requirement, then it may happen that you will not be asked for DSA in the startup, at that time there may be some startup. If you hire on the basis of web development skills, if you are hiring to make an app,
So if we hire on the basis of your core app development skills, then we should already know what type of companies we are targeting, and what we need to study for them, one more thing we need to note in this. That in college, we should start doing data structures, algorithms from the first year,
But we have to keep practicing them, because in coding you forget things very quickly, hence we have to practice DSA until we get a good placement with which we are satisfied, note here Things to do, I did not say internship, I said placement, because sometimes our internship starts within the third year,
But after that, if we do not practice, then it is possible that we may not get a return offer from there, then after that we have to study again from the beginning for placement, so it is better that we study our DSA once, then If we keep revising it, keep solving the questions, then you will see that your app is developing.
Balancing Multiple Programming Technologies in College
Someone is doing blockchain development, someone is doing web development, someone is doing machine learning, someone is preparing for separate placements, then we get confused because there are so many things in technology, and How do I do all this, so what we usually do is, we start doing two or three things simultaneously, we are also doing app development,
We are also doing web development, or we are learning three languages simultaneously, we should focus on one thing at a time in programming, if I know that I have good command over one thing, Now I just need to practice it, so with that we can start a second parallel thing,
For example, if I want to learn DSA for placements, then I start my DSA, and as I feel, I have a strong command on DSA, I have finished most of the DSA, so parallelly with that, I Either I can start web development, or I can start development myself, and I can start looking at a little machine learning,
But never work on more than two technologies at a time, because it divides our focus, and then it becomes very difficult for us to remember more things in the long term. Along with this, many students have another question. , that inside the college I am being taught another language, like python is being taught, For placement, I have heard that C++ and Java are very good, so I am doing Java together and also Python, so how do I balance both, the basic way to balance it would be that we use Python. Read only as much as is necessary for our college exams, just as we study someone else’s, like English for college exams, as we grow,For good grades, the more we grow, the more we should practice Python, and if we have to prepare for the exam in C++ or Java, then we should focus more on it in our free time, so whenever we learn the technologies. We should always know the motive behind learning, that if we are learning for college exams,So how much do we have to learn, if we are learning for placements, how much do we have to learn, if we are learning to make a project, then how much do we have to learn, and try to learn more than two technologies at a time. But are not working, the third is, if we have just come to college, or are already a working professional,So it helps a lot for us, if we have a group who does coding with us, like if we have come to college, then you can see among your classmates, who already code. If you are interested in companies like you, then you can form a group with them.There are many benefits of forming a group, the first of which is that if you do not know any question, it is possible that someone else in your group knows it, then they will explain it to you, the second benefit is that if you understand, will give,Thirdly, if you have learned something new today, then you can share it, then that knowledge will be revised for you too, and the second and biggest benefit, I think, is that if you create a good group, then the rest If people are also interested, then they will also search for different opportunities, you will also search for them, it is possible that one of your friends may tell you.
Whether this opening has come out in Microsoft for off-campus placements, or this opening has come up in Goldman Sachs, this contest is going on in Adobe, in which we can participate together, in fact, there are many such coding contests. There are competitive contests, where participation is allowed on your group,
So you can participate as a team, ICPC is a very worldwide known competition, in which you can go as a team, and if you want to win in it, it makes your resume very better, then you can participate as a team. You can search for a group of good people around you who, like you, are interested in coming into this industry. The fourth thing that we should know is that we have to learn things from our case scenario,
In fact, I have also made a detailed blog on this, that if you want to learn coding from scratch, if you want to learn app development, then what should you learn, if you want to learn web development, what should you learn, what should you learn for placement. What should we learn, if we want to explore in detail, we can see it, otherwise I will tell you very briefly that if we have to go for placements,
So target, C++ or Java, for development you can learn from the language of your interest, whether I want to go into app development, web development, do android in it, or iOS, apple. I have to develop for devices, I have to go into blockchain development, I have to learn machine learning,
If you want to learn AI, then in this way you will have to decide the domain first, then you can see, what are the possible technologies in it, and no technology is bad or good, in fact, if you think that in the future, I The technology which will last for a year, like nowadays AI and ML, which will last for 15 years,
Block chat is a development, which is new coming, so maybe it will last for 20 years, so if I learn them, then it is not the case at all, PHPP has been around for a very long time, and in fact, today Many companies also hire PHP developers, because today the code is based on PHP, even though it is a very old language,
So there is no technology like this, it will be completely exhaustive, and also the job of a software engineer is that they work on multiple technologies, so if you have a strong command in one language, then you will be able to It will be very easy for you to learn new technologies, so you always have to keep yourself a little fluid,
That anytime, if times change, requirement changes, I will also learn new technology, so it is not necessary from the beginning that you learn such technology, then it will take 20 years for you, because we cannot predict, That the next 20 years will do, because the next 20 years will do, because we cannot predict,
Because we cannot predict what the next 90 years will do,
You might be learning another technology or language on which you will have to work, so the language you learn in DSA, inside the colleges, is for your personal learning and logic building, inside the colleges. You have to work in different languages or different technologies, The fifth thing that we should know about, its name is tutorial hell, I had discussed it in detail earlier in another coding blog, tutorial hell means, you have gone to the internet and watched a tutorial, you have watched a tutorial Have watched the explanation coding blog, and what we did in it, I understood a little while reading the ccoding blog,
And then by copy pasting we wrote the code, and right there we closed that thing, in such a situation we must be learning something in the long term, like if I have to make a project on python, I went online, I spent 2 hours Saw the coding blog of, I made the same project on python by copy pasting, but in the interview I was asked about the details,
So I may not know many things, in such a situation the best way is to learn from the tutorial, instead of getting stuck in the tutorial, what should we do, give it your unique twist, like I am making a project, then give it your unique twist. I can give, if I am learning any algorithm or asking a question about any topic in DSA,
So in that question I can imagine a slightly different case, like if today I was taught binary search, this is for those students who have started doing a little coding, taught me binary search, and taught me binary search on array. , so what can I do, I can apply it to strings, I can apply it to array list,
If I can apply it on the link list, then keep the algorithm the same, change the data structure, keep the data structure the same, change the algorithm, then I can bring a little twist as per my own, make the question by myself and solve it by myself. Or if I am making a project, I can slightly customize it as per my own, along with this
The Role of Certifications and Certificates in the Tech Industry
Once my blog is over, then I have to go on my own and explore things on the internet, I have to read more about the functions that I learned, the things that I learned while coding, by going online, +9interviews, if I am asked any deep question,
So then there I will have proper knowledge, to answer, six things that we need to know is about certificates, many times it happens that we do internships for certificates, or we do some course. For certificates, certificates are not important, our skills are important,
usually no one is looking at your certificates in a product based company, if you have the skills, only then you will be able to clear your interviews, then when to do internships, when to do internship, either you have to do a lot of work there Well, you are getting a good salary, you are earning something on the basis of your skills, On the basis of your work, or if it is an unpaid internship, then you are getting to learn some good things, which you can write in your resume, and you can also write the experience of that company in the resume. We have to do courses only when those courses are actually teaching us something, not just for the certificate.
If we want to benefit in the long term, then we do not have to do things for certificates, but yes there are some fields, like cloud computing is such a field, where actually you should have certificates in your resume, because many companies demand it. If you do it, then you should have certificates in which field? Please share it with us.
Which are not seen so much, I have made a detailed blog about that, which we can go and watch, I have also made a detailed blog about how to apply for these fact off campus internships, which we can watch. You can go and see, 7 things which we should know, that is not to quit, sometimes when we start programming.
Overcoming Challenges and Frustrations in the Coding Journey
When we start coding, many times it happens that we get unknown errors, unknown exceptions, and at such times it takes us a lot of time to figure out why our code is not working. , How will this error be solved, or I am unable to understand the logic of this question, how am I trying to break that logic,
In such a situation, in the first one or two months, when things seem to be maximum difficult for us, then the journey after that will become much easier.
Because many times it happens that students quit midway, after that like I started coding in the first year, found it a little difficult in the first year, started in the second year, found it a little difficult in the second year, after that we quit, but after going to third year we will study for internships, after going to Fort Year we will study for placements, and at that time
Even if we don’t want to, we have to start things from the basics again, so we don’t have to put in double the time and double the effort again. The best way to avoid that is, if we have started coding, here I am talking specifically about data structures and algorithms, if we have started then we will
Let’s finish it in one go, after that keep practicing and revision, because starting it again is the reason why most of the students quit in the initial stages, I have also made a detailed blog about that, in which you will get to know about your case will definitely appear, if this has happened to you, or you
Selecting the Right Coding Platforms for Your Skill Level
The coding that is there seems to be very difficult, so we can go and watch that blog, hopefully from there we will bring out some new things, which will help us in our specific case, the eighth thing that we should know. The thing is, once we start coding, what will we find out, we will find out, there are multiple platforms online which we can go to.
We can practice questions, there are multiple platforms online, from where we can go and learn things, in such a situation, instead of using many platforms at once, it is better to use only two platforms at a time, because It will happen that in learning the platform we will also have to learn something of our own.
There is a curve, like if today I think that I have to code on lead code, tomorrow I think that I have to code on code forces, the day after tomorrow I think that I will go on slog and do it on some other platform, then every day I will have to change the platform. In this we may have to write code in different formats, and there is a learning curve as to which method.
I have to read the question, in what way, where will be the input, where will be the output, understanding sample input, sample output, that is a very difficult part, and in fact, that part is not even helpful, in the process of coding, one thing is most important. What is really helpful is to make logic, you can use logic in any platform, then at a time, you should access maximum two platforms only, to practice your questions, to solve them, now at what time, which platform should you use, if If you are a beginner, then which one to do, which one to do in the intermediate stage, if we have learned DSA well enough.
Leveraging GitHub for Open Source Contributions and Learning
Take, you only have to prepare for placement, or I want to see it from the perspective of placement preparation, or I want to see it from the perspective of competitive coding, so which one to do, I have made a specific blog about it, from there, very I have discussed all the platforms in it, we can see which specific platform we should use.
The ninth thing that I need is that as soon as possible, we have to create our account on two platforms, the first of which is GitHub, GitHub is like the online Facebook for coders, where we can share our work. We can show, we can upload all our work online.
We can upload our codes online, in fact, we can also read the codes of others, there are many companies which have made the codes of big products open source, that is, any Anyone can come and read it, anyone can come and remove errors from it, if we wish we can also contribute to their code,
For example, if you have seen Linux operating system, then Linux is completely open source, you will also get its code, if you want, you can also find errors in it, which are a little advanced level things, yes, we can find if we want. With time, and after that we can contribute to it and fix errors, so we must explore GitHub.
Engaging with the Tech Community: From Hackathons to Meetups
If we are at the beginner stage, because through this we will be learning more about open source, plus there are many helpful programs using open source, from which you can also earn, in which you can contribute within the company. If you can also do it, then you will be learning completely about those technologies and that process also,
So there are two aspects of GitHub, the first is that we are learning about open source, that is, the companies that keep their products freely available, make their code visible to everyone, what kind of process do they follow? to change your code, and second, we will be learning about a lot of open source programs, which
There are like internships, but there are no internships, in which you are also given some amount, to participate in those open source programs, you are also able to contribute within the code of a company, just like you can within the internship. If you used to contribute, then that becomes a helpful thing, plus you
You can also be more active within the open source community, you can participate in it, you have different hackathons, meetups, you can go there.
Conclusion
In conclusion, if you’re a coding beginner, remember that the journey is as important as the destination. Follow these ten tips, and you’ll be well on your way to becoming a proficient coder. Embrace the learning process, stay curious, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. The world of coding is vast and exciting, and with dedication, you can achieve your coding goals.
FAQs
FAQ 1: How do I choose the right programming language?
Choosing the right programming language depends on your goals. Research popular languages and consider your interests. Python, Java, and JavaScript are excellent choices for beginners.
FAQ 2: What are the best resources for beginner coders?
Online platforms like Codecademy, Coursera, and freeCodeCamp offer excellent resources for beginners. You can also find tutorials and courses on YouTube and in coding forums.
FAQ 3: How long does it take to become proficient in coding?
The time it takes to become proficient varies from person to person. It depends on your dedication, the complexity of the language, and the time you invest. Expect several months to a few years of consistent learning.
FAQ 4: What are some common coding challenges for beginners?
Common challenges include understanding syntax, debugging, and tackling complex algorithms. Overcoming these challenges is part of the learning process.
FAQ 5: How can I stay motivated while learning to code?
Set goals, break them into smaller milestones, and celebrate your achievements. Join coding communities, connect with fellow learners, and remind yourself why you started this journey in the first place.
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