About Journey In Coding
I started this site for other people like me. People who originally launched a career in a field outside of software engineering and now have a desire to be a computer programmer. My hope is that through my journey you will pick up some information that will be useful in your journey.
I plan to write about learning how to code, discuss coding interviews (behavior and technical interviews), technical skills, soft skills, data structures, algorithms, and anything else I find useful in my journey to becoming a software engineer. I’ll also provide online coding tutorials and classes at some point as well.
More About The Site
If you landed on this site my guess is that you’re probably in a similar boat, or at very least, learning how to code. If there’s anything I can write about that you think would be helpful or something you’d like to see on the site please drop me a line at contact@journeyincoding.com.
If you have something useful you learned during your journey in becoming a software engineer that you think would be helpful, please share it. I don’t believe that software engineering is a zero-sum game and firmly believe that the more we share our knowledge and expertise with beginners and experts alike, the more we all win.
About Me
Ever since I can remember I have been interested in computers. From the moment I first saw a computer, at around 9 years old, I was hooked.
My buddy and I used to stay up late playing old MS-DOS games like Jetpack and some old boxing game. Not long after, Wolfenstein and Doom hit the scene and we were up late taking down evil-doers and monsters. Then came Duke Nukem… enough said. Then, Age of Empires, C&C: Red Alert, as well as a whole slew of other RTS games. Needless to say, most of my free time in my adolescent years was taken up by computers.
After that, I spent time talking to friends on AOL Instant Messenger, creating websites in HTML, and building computers for myself and relatives. My friends and I took an A+ certification class taught by a local businessman. We would have learned more in that class if the teacher hadn’t ended up scamming our whole town out of close to a million dollars selling cheap laptop vouchers to everyone (a story for another day).
By the time I was in my teenage years, I ended up being the “go-to guy” in the family for whenever anyone needed a computer fixed and everyone knew me as being sort of a tech geek. Friends and family would call at all hours to help out with computer problems. I was basically acting as tech support, without getting paid.
However, when it got time to thinking about a career, instead of going into computers I went into science. I got hooked on learning more and more about the human body and ended up majoring in biology. At the time I thought I wanted to be a doctor. However, I eventually got burned out on biology (and science, in general) but I was only a few classes away from finishing my degree so I figured I’d stick it out. By the end of my degree I lost all interest in becoming a doctor and was sort of stuck having a degree in something I didn’t have much interest in anymore.
I ended up getting a job in the lab at a hospital as a medical technologist. Given the fact that I was making pretty good money right out college, I held on to the job for a bit longer than I should have. While working, I obtained an MBA and started taking an interest in finance. In my free time I would research companies, analyze stocks and write in my financial blog about the stock market and market psychology.
Fast-forward past a few other jobs, starting my own online business, and devoting myself to fly-fishing nearly full-time for several years; I ended up circling back to my love for computers. For fun, I took a class in Java at a local college and ended up getting hooked again on computers, but this time doing coding. I ended up pursuing a degree in computer science and just finished this year.
Now the real journey begins, finding a coding job. Wish me luck!
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From time to time this site may contain affiliate links to books or materials which I have found useful in my journey. I am not being paid to endorse these products. All I will make in terms of revenue is a very small percentage from the sale of each product. Also, it should be noted that no additional cost is passed on to you for any product you might come across. In fact, most times affiliate links for services will actually help you save money compared to the price you would normally pay.