Trying to Become Good at Programming to get Employed (Part One) — Transcript

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1. 0:00so you want to become good at
2. 0:02programming well I mean who doesn't with
3. 0:04such an amazing starting salary so many
4. 0:06job opportunities out there and such
5. 0:08great working conditions it's no wonder
6. 0:10why millions of people want to become
7. 0:12software
8. 0:13developers now for those of you that did
9. 0:15not rage quit my video after hearing
10. 0:17that nonsense let's be real being a
11. 0:19programmer can be summed up into one
12. 0:21very simple word difficult most of the
13. 0:24job has you sitting behind a screen
14. 0:25killing your eyes your back and more
15. 0:27often than not your soul and don't get
16. 0:30me started on the job market right
17. 0:32now it is rough so you might be thinking
18. 0:35if being a programmer is so freaking
19. 0:37miserable then why do so many people do
20. 0:40it anyway well the answer is very simple
21. 0:42the pay because even though it is
22. 0:44extremely difficult it is also on the
23. 0:46other hand extremely rewarding most of
24. 0:49the time and as somebody that loves
25. 0:51making things I too want to be able to
26. 0:53program whatever my heart desires
27. 0:55however there is one little issue my
28. 0:57programming skills are horrendous to say
29. 1:01the least this is not Maria's therapy
30. 1:03hour trust me nobody wants to see that
31. 1:05but to put it short I was always afraid
32. 1:07afraid of starting something only to
33. 1:09fail miserably at it and I even believed
34. 1:11for a long time that programming was
35. 1:13just going to be way too difficult for
36. 1:15me to ever be able to learn and well
37. 1:17that brings me to the point of this
38. 1:19video see I want to prove myself wrong I
39. 1:22want to show myself that not only can I
40. 1:23become a programmer I can become a good
41. 1:26programmer someone who is able to solve
42. 1:28whatever problems get thrown her way
43. 1:30without ever having to ask chatu for a
44. 1:32solution and so if I want to become any
45. 1:35good I'm going to have to go all in I'm
46. 1:38going to have to start all the way from
47. 1:39the beginning and work my way up the
48. 1:41food chain and while I'm doing so maybe
49. 1:44you guys will feel inspired enough to
50. 1:45also go on your own little Learning
51. 1:47Adventure After All We're All in This
52. 1:49Together it seems so without further Ado
53. 1:51project become a good programmer has
54. 1:53officially
55. 1:58beun
56. 2:00[Music]
57. 2:02[Applause]
58. 2:07hello and welcome to me suffering over
59. 2:09the most basic things for God knows how
60. 2:11long please subscribe for more suffering
61. 2:14now in my personal opinion the worst
62. 2:16thing about trying to learn something is
63. 2:18the very start because no matter how
64. 2:20much motivation I have and no matter how
65. 2:23many videos I watch about how to start
66. 2:24learning programming for the first time
67. 2:26it just never seems to make any sense
68. 2:29and so I figured in in order to avoid
69. 2:30all that I'm going to start from what my
70. 2:33version of the very beginning is data
71. 2:35structures and algorithms these are the
72. 2:37most basic building blocks of
73. 2:39programming that you can get and in
74. 2:41order to help me through this process
75. 2:43I'm going to enlist the help of NE code.
76. 2:46a learning platform made by need code in
77. 2:49order to help poor souls like me learn
78. 2:51how to become better programmers and so
79. 2:53yes I did pay for the pro subscription
80. 2:55was it a lot of
81. 2:57money kind of my goal for this video is
82. 3:00going to be very simple and that is to
83. 3:02finish the course and well there really
84. 3:04isn't much else to say besides let's
85. 3:07just start let's just get this over with
86. 3:09because my
87. 3:18God by the look on my face it looks like
88. 3:20we are off to a great start now since I
89. 3:23do have some knowledge of the basics
90. 3:25thank you college for that at least I
91. 3:26was able to work through the first few
92. 3:28lessons quite quickly and fact the
93. 3:30entire eray section was pretty much
94. 3:31Child's Play The only somewhat difficult
95. 3:34aspect of it was of course the leak code
96. 3:36questions now leak code is a whole
97. 3:38different beast and unfortunately for me
98. 3:40each lesson contains one or more
99. 3:41questions that are associated with the
100. 3:43lesson material yes I can skip over them
101. 3:46in fact I desperately want to but could
102. 3:48I really consider myself a good
103. 3:50programmer if I do that no and so suffer
104. 3:52through all the Leo questions I
105. 3:57shall okay there we go complete link
106. 4:00lists were pretty simple in fact I would
107. 4:02argue that the leadco questions for them
108. 4:04were a lot easier to answer than the
109. 4:06godamn array questions instead of
110. 4:08everything stored together like an array
111. 4:10you have these things called nodes and
112. 4:12they kind of just point to each other to
113. 4:14signify what comes next easy enough and
114. 4:16after fixing a bug due to not writing
115. 4:18the correct name I was ready to move on
116. 4:20to the next lesson recursion now at this
117. 4:24point everything seemed to be going
118. 4:25quite well but I should have known that
119. 4:27this was going to be the Calm before the
120. 4:29storm that's without recursion recursion
121. 4:32gives you a space o n but this one gives
122. 4:34you space one which it makes sense I'm
123. 4:36not questioning that but like why would
124. 4:38you use recursion then unless we don't
125. 4:40really care about space cuz ultimately
126. 4:42they have the same runtime but wouldn't
127. 4:45you okay I'm probably going too deep
128. 4:48into this what you just currently
129. 4:50witnessed is the true struggle of being
130. 4:52a programmer you see one thing I quickly
131. 4:54realize is how difficult it is to solve
132. 4:56some Leo questions even though they seem
133. 4:57to be very simple tasks in fact as you
134. 5:00can see even with the solution right in
135. 5:02front of me I still couldn't get around
136. 5:03to understanding how the hell it was
137. 5:05being
138. 5:07solved this one makes zero sense what
139. 5:10the [ __ ] is going
140. 5:12on there we
141. 5:15go what is going on here wait okay this
142. 5:19is this is a little bit complex For Me
143. 5:21Maybe had something to do with the fact
144. 5:23that it was showing me a DFS solution
145. 5:24even though I clearly had not reached
146. 5:26that far into the course thank you n
147. 5:28code but more so it is the nature of the
148. 5:30lead code problems themselves because
149. 5:32the reality is not that you have to
150. 5:34understand the problem but your computer
151. 5:36has to understand the problem sure I can
152. 5:39write a million and F statements and get
153. 5:40the job done like some people do or I
154. 5:43can do the morally right thing and just
155. 5:45learn how to solve it as best as
156. 5:47possible from the very beginning which
157. 5:49means there is no way in absolute hell
158. 5:51that I'm going to be finishing this
159. 5:52course in under 8 hours anyway now that
160. 5:55I finally figured out how recursion
161. 5:56works it was time to move on to sorting
162. 5:58algorithms now I would say this went
163. 6:00better than the previous section but I
164. 6:02think we all know that this is only
165. 6:04going to get worse and worse the more
166. 6:06chapters I complete in fact I was fooled
167. 6:08into thinking that everything was fine
168. 6:09when I did insertion sort and actually
169. 6:11understood how it worked on the first
170. 6:12pass but boy oh boy was I absolutely
171. 6:15wrong in fact I'm going to let this clip
172. 6:17play out because I didn't realize how
173. 6:18much I talk to myself when I have to use
174. 6:20my brain are the two values which okay I
175. 6:23got it the question is whether I can do
176. 6:27this thing so we have hairs Val value of
177. 6:300 + 1 which is just one so it's actually
178. 6:32going to be one but we never get the
179. 6:36zero so it's
180. 6:39two what am I not
181. 6:42getting merge
182. 6:47sword I just pretty much copied off of
183. 6:50this
184. 6:54but of
185. 6:57course it is a function
186. 7:00ahuh
187. 7:02wait that's where we put it in I got it
188. 7:05yeah okay should we solve
189. 7:08this here's the
190. 7:11thing it says hard and I feel like if I
191. 7:15try to do this without looking at any
192. 7:18solution but prior I might hate
193. 7:22myself I don't know what's better if I
194. 7:25just like try to beat this into my skull
195. 7:27or do I keep going
196. 7:31I vote keep going I'm happy to report
197. 7:34that I did eventually get through the
198. 7:35hard questions after watching NE cod's
199. 7:37video about 20 times more but once I did
200. 7:39the rest of the section was quite easy
201. 7:41and I was able to move on to binary
202. 7:43search and to be honest after having to
203. 7:45deal with merge sort this section was
204. 7:46finished in quite a flash the only hard
205. 7:48part was like usual the Leo question I'm
206. 7:51having PTSD looking back at the name I
207. 7:53swear this is the thing I read through
208. 7:56this thing and it's just I don't
209. 7:59understand what it's asking Coco loves
210. 8:02to eat
211. 8:03bananas there are n piles of bananas the
212. 8:07ice pile Sor n piles of bananas the
213. 8:10guards have gone and will come back in
214. 8:13each hour she
215. 8:14chooses
216. 8:17banan within 8
217. 8:19hours what um explain this
218. 8:28please
219. 8:30be
220. 8:30five and
221. 8:33one so we're looking oh and we're
222. 8:35looking between that to see if it
223. 8:40is I kind of get it and already after a
224. 8:44couple of days I no longer remember how
225. 8:45to answer this question all I do know is
226. 8:48that I am doing binary search here see
227. 8:49it's cutting the problem in half and so
228. 8:51therefore you're just throwing away the
229. 8:52other half making the time complexity
230. 8:54log in instead of
231. 8:56it yeah also if you're confused as to
232. 8:58why my angle in CL clothes keep changing
233. 9:00I have done the same chapters over and
234. 9:03over again because if you think for one
235. 9:05second that I was able to do this on
236. 9:06first try you're delusional anyway back
237. 9:09to the video now it looks like we're
238. 9:11getting into the more complicated things
239. 9:13AKA trees now again the concept wasn't
240. 9:16too difficult to understand it was the
241. 9:18implementation though that took me a
242. 9:19second to wrap my head around it's like
243. 9:21a link list except you have two children
244. 9:24and if you make enough of them you have
245. 9:26an upside down tree and with trees comes
246. 9:28two very important topics DFS depth
247. 9:31first search like the name suggest you
248. 9:33go as deep as possible and then you go
249. 9:35all the way up BFS breath first search
250. 9:37you go one level at a time starting from
251. 9:39the top and going down and if someone
252. 9:42can please explain to me why this is
253. 9:43called breath first search that would be
254. 9:45wonderful anyway after finishing up the
255. 9:47tree section came the thing that I
256. 9:49absolutely hated learning about because
257. 9:52for some reason I couldn't seem to
258. 9:55understand how it worked once again the
259. 9:57logic made sense but I I just I was
260. 10:00looking at it and nothing was processing
261. 10:02in my head in fact I had such a hard
262. 10:04time figuring things out that I had to
263. 10:06turn to chat jpt I pray to every
264. 10:09freaking God out there that may exist
265. 10:13I'm sorry I said I didn't believe in you
266. 10:15but I'm going to drop that please help
267. 10:17me solve this problem sorry for my
268. 10:19mistake please please please amen let's
269. 10:20go but I guess the gods decided to
270. 10:22ignore my prayer because to be honest
271. 10:24chat gbt did not help at
272. 10:27all the Story begins with me asking chat
273. 10:30GPT a very simple question to explain
274. 10:33how backtracking Works in programming
275. 10:35with no delay it supplies me with a
276. 10:37wonderful answer explaining exactly what
277. 10:39it is used for but my small brain still
278. 10:41did not understand the problem and so I
279. 10:43asked it to provide me with some
280. 10:45examples of backtracking it says
281. 10:47certainly let's take the classic example
282. 10:50of the N Queen's problem it says we have
283. 10:52to place an N amount of Queens on an N
284. 10:55byn Chess board such that no two queens
285. 10:57threaten each other it then spits out a
286. 10:59bunch of code which I thoroughly ignore
287. 11:01and go straight to how it goes about
288. 11:03solving the problem okay so it places a
289. 11:05queen at
290. 11:060 fine then it places a queen at 1 two
291. 11:11yeah that's fine then it places a queen
292. 11:13at
293. 11:1523 H there seems to be a problem maybe
294. 11:20you know what I'm just not getting it
295. 11:21let's just ask CHF BT to explain why 23
296. 11:24is a valid move oh wait I'm right okay
297. 11:26it's doing the problem again but wait
298. 11:28three 3 is also not a valid move it
299. 11:31falls in the path of the other queen you
300. 11:33are absolutely correct and I appreciate
301. 11:35your
302. 11:38patience okay it's doing the problem
303. 11:40again and you can't place it at 21
304. 11:42either I appreciate your continued
305. 11:45attention to detail and I apologize for
306. 11:47the oversight let's correct the
307. 11:49explanation 20 is not valid just do the
308. 11:53problem over again this goes on for
309. 11:56another couple of minutes of me going
310. 11:57back and forth explaining why it is
311. 11:59wrong and then it proceeding to not
312. 12:01improve anything before I pretty much
313. 12:03just break it it keeps spitting out this
314. 12:05result which obviously is very wrong and
315. 12:08at this point I realized that I'm
316. 12:09literally fighting with a
317. 12:11machine and I just gave up and told it
318. 12:13to give me a different problem and good
319. 12:15for it this problem actually did work
320. 12:17but at this point I just I lost all
321. 12:19sense of what backtracking was so it
322. 12:20didn't help me at
323. 12:23all I don't think
324. 12:27so
325. 12:32can I zoom in it just feels so great and
326. 12:34then and then and then this this is a
327. 12:37little bit depressing but
328. 12:44this let's go take a nap guys let's go
329. 12:46take a nap after my nap which turned out
330. 12:49to be just me going to sleep I woke up
331. 12:51feeling refreshed and ready to tackle
332. 12:53the next task heaps now heaps are quite
333. 12:56similar to trees the only difference is
334. 12:58that they one have a structure property
335. 13:00and two have an order property the first
336. 13:02says that they should have a Balan tree
337. 13:05which means that if there are any
338. 13:07missing children they are at the last
339. 13:09level and number two there is an order
340. 13:11property depending on what Heap you have
341. 13:13whether it's Min or Max it just means
342. 13:15that there is some priority value that
343. 13:17you are storing now this didn't go so
344. 13:20bad because thankfully there is a
345. 13:21pre-existing data structure available
346. 13:23that I can use instead of having to deal
347. 13:25with the implementation and after
348. 13:27quickly finishing up the Leo questions
349. 13:29for this section I celebrated in the
350. 13:31most ladylike way possible everything
351. 13:33done heaps finished finished and now it
352. 13:38was time for graphs I'm going to skip
353. 13:40over hashing cuz it's super simple but
354. 13:42here's the proof that I did it graphs
355. 13:44are pretty similar to trees except they
356. 13:46are not restricted to having just two
357. 13:47children in fact they can be their own
358. 13:50child that was a weird sentence and
359. 13:53instead of using nodes and Link lists
360. 13:55you have edges vertices matrixes and
361. 13:57adjacency lists it's a lot I'm not going
362. 14:00to lie this thing boggled me the first
363. 14:02time I tried to solve it in fact I had
364. 14:04such a difficult time grasping what the
365. 14:07hell was going on that I legit had not
366. 14:09one but two nervous breakdowns trying to
367. 14:12figure out what the hell was going on
368. 14:15once again I was lulled into a false
369. 14:17sense of security after being able to
370. 14:19quickly solve his DFS problem only to
371. 14:21then realize that it doesn't help you
372. 14:23solve the Le problem why well take a
373. 14:26look at this problem and you tell me if
374. 14:29you're able to figure out how to solve
375. 14:30it at first freaking glance what really
376. 14:33bothered me was just I didn't know how
377. 14:34to tell what was an island like of
378. 14:37course I know how to tell it but how
379. 14:39does the computer tell what's an island
380. 14:41how do I get it to tell what's an island
381. 14:43what am I supposed to do already know
382. 14:46what this algorithm is but it's
383. 14:47basically a a breath first search we're
384. 14:50just
385. 14:53do so why is this
386. 14:57here
387. 15:00huh I'm confused thank you need code I
388. 15:04get it you don't have to solve it using
389. 15:05DFS but like why is it in this section
390. 15:08then I want to know how to do it using
391. 15:10DFS even though he didn't have a video
392. 15:12for it he did provide some code for a
393. 15:14DFS solution so I just kind of used that
394. 15:16to figure out what to do he's like
395. 15:18turning the ones into zeros and then
396. 15:20backtracking and that way you can tell
397. 15:21it's an island I would have never been
398. 15:23able to figure this out after clearing
399. 15:25my head by taking another nap I would
400. 15:28was able to get through the rest of the
401. 15:30section with no problems but once that
402. 15:33was done I was finally at the last
403. 15:34section for this course ignore bit
404. 15:37operations I'm not going to do that in
405. 15:38this video and that is dynamic
406. 15:40programming AKA recursion with memory or
407. 15:45mimo me
408. 15:48memoization remember this problem the
409. 15:51problem that I was answering before that
410. 15:52I just couldn't understand well finally
411. 15:55a couple of chapters later I understand
412. 15:57what is going on it was dynamic
413. 15:59programming the whole time something
414. 16:01that I hadn't learned until now thank
415. 16:05you other than that this wasn't too
416. 16:07difficult to figure out and finally
417. 16:09after definitely spending more than 8
418. 16:11hours doing this entire course I clicked
419. 16:13that final green check box and I was
420. 16:24done yes I cut off my hair so I finished
421. 16:27the course
422. 16:29I feel really good about how much I
423. 16:31accomplished even though I did struggle
424. 16:32and suffer and cry a lot I've learned
425. 16:36pretty much that when it comes to
426. 16:37programming all you really have to do is
427. 16:39repetition repetition
428. 16:42repetition repetition did I say
429. 16:44repetition repetition and testing
430. 16:46testing yourself telling yourself hey
431. 16:48let's just try to solve this problem for
432. 16:50memory and if I can't do it well then I
433. 16:53should go d a CO no we just keep going
434. 16:56until we can do it and while I hope I
435. 16:58hope that you guys also succeeded if you
436. 17:00were following along or if you were just
437. 17:01watching me suffer and well now that I'm
438. 17:03done with that course I can finally
439. 17:04relax and
440. 17:08chill wait a
441. 17:17minute wait there's more well I guess
442. 17:21there's going to be a part two so please
443. 17:23subscribe to see that video and I hope
444. 17:25you guys have a good day I'm going to go
445. 17:28cry now
446. 17:30[Music]
447. 17:33[Applause]
448. 17:34[Music]
449. 17:38now