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Edmond Hui · 2022-07-29T01:52:20.725Z

I am currently a software engineer working full-time in the New York Metropolitan Area. Two years ago during the advent of COVID-19, I was an Associate Director at a real estate startup called Squarefoot in NYC. This was similar to being a real esta...

So inspiring you are on a great journey Edmond Hui.

Great article Edmond. I'm currently learning CSS and JavaScript. You mentioned something about mentorship buh there's no way to message you here on hashnode

Email me at edmond.t.hui@gmail.com

Hi,what about Mern stack jobs in New York ?

In my opinion, you should have no problem finding job opportunities using the MERN stack in NY. When I was applying most jobs required at least some part of the MERN stack. I would also learn some TypeScript as well because of its growing popularity.

Inspirational Journey Edmond Hui! feels great to read your article as I'm a recent graduate from mechanical engineering and aspiring to become a software engineer.

Kudos for the effort and i'm glad you got to where you wanted to be.

we learned everything necessary to become software engineers.

Trust me, 3 months is an absolute minuscule time interval to learn everything a software engineer needs to know. A system with a relational database with 4NF applied, using a proper load balancer behind a proxy, with code developed through a clean code architecture all the while applying a TDD methodology, making use of containerisation tech stack, supported by a nice automated horizontal scaling arch, having a fail-safe server redundancy, with decent CD/CI pipelines set up going through unit and integration tests, which for today's standards is the BASIC setup, might not be enough to have 3 months and call yourself an engineer. But then again, what is an engineer? Why people use the term at all? Formal engineers complain with reasons to do so. It trivialises its meaning.

Thank you for reading and your comment. In my most recent article I address some of your points and I think you're completely correct. Please give it a read!

blog.edmondhui.com/self-study-or-coding-bootcamp

Congratulations Edmond, on becoming a software engineer. These type of stories get me excited. I'm currently learning JavaScript, and I been struggling but reading your story, just lets me know not to give up!! Thank you again! Looking forward to your next post, have a good one!!

My next article goes through the opportunity costs of learning how to code and helps people decide whether they should self-study, join a bootcamp, or not make the leap at all. Hopefully, it will help you out when I publish it. Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it. 🙏

Thanks for sharing your journey, it's really inspirational. Looking forward to your new upcoming articles!

Wow, this is amazing, i've just subscribed to open.appacademy.io, there is a lot of material there, so far im just interested in python section, do you think i can only take the python syllabus? or you recommend me take the whole program?

Regards and thanks for sharing this valuable information with us.

Thanks for reading David. There is definitely more information than you need on there and you don't need to finish every single lecture. I finished the full stack track and made it through part of the Python course. In my opinion, I think finishing any track and then applying and doing leetcode would be the fastest way to land a job.

Edmond Hui Thanks, i already registered on the open course. Right now starting with javascript, so far so good, Thanks, this post worth a million dollars.

Nice article mate 👍🏽👍🏽

Thank You for this great piece, it helped me a lot.

Thank you for reading Seare Hagos!

You took your leap of faith! Really inspiring share, buddy!

Thank you for sharing your story Edmond. I'm also transitioning into tech while being a medical student, and I can freely say that it's really taking a toll on me. All the same, I've made up my mind to show up every day.

Amazing story, Edmond. Nice to know someone who learnt coding in 3 months, especially from a non-tech background and landed an entry level role. I'm learning CSS now. Any advice?

Thank you for reading Peter. I would suggest taking a look at freecodecamp.org, theodinproject.com, and open.appacademy.io. After I graduated from App Academy they made the whole curriculum free for everyone online. This is the same exact program I had to pay around ~$30,000 for, FREE, for anyone who is willing to take the effort to go through it themselves. Get some friends to keep you accountable to start grinding!

Awesome journey! Keep learning, that’s the best thing anyone can do to stop the imposter syndrome.

Show up! Well done, Edmond.

That's all you need to do! Never give up and keep showing up. ✌️

Thanks for sharing your journey, very inspiring indeed! ✨ Looking forward for your next article

Thank you keep your eyes peeled for new articles! I'm going to be writing an article about my honest thoughts around coding bootcamps in 2022 (pros and cons), an article explaining functional programming, and an article about learning/teaching functional programming.

Great choice of topics!! Edmond Hui

Inspiring ❤️‍🔥

Love the journey. It's how we have some of the greatest people in the field.

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