>>What about boot camps? are they a waste of time? I don’t think any learnikng effort is a waste of time but personally I’d just invest the time in those 100 bug fixes.
The most effective way to learn programming is through working on real software, with real goals. On 10 Feb 2019, at 8:19 pm, Sebastiaan Stoffels <s...@sebastiaan-stoffels.com> wrote: Solid advice Andrew. Really appreciate it! That's definitely something I will work towards, and makes total sense! What about boot camps? are they a waste of time? Or do you look favorably on them ( obviously in conjunction with other skill/portfolio etc ). I was thinking of doing one to 'fast track' my learning a bit. Especially in some of the other technologies. On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 5:26 PM Andrew Stuart <andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au> wrote: Sebastian You’re heading in the right direction. I’m a recruiter and a Python programmer. Lots of people ask me “How do I get a job?”, or “How do I transition from some other career path?”. The answer is always the same …. there’s one answer that will always work …. be so remarkable, so outstanding, that employers cannot ignore you. The shorte3st path to this is to contribute to a *major* open source project using the technologies you want to be working with. So for example, if you want to work with Django - go and fix 100 bugs on the Django list, then list them on your resume. Write about it. Not much more to it than that. Any employer that uses a given technology, if it finds a local contributor to open source code it uses, will jump at the chance to interview you. Andrew _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug -- Sebastiaan Stoffels Ph 0419 216 676 _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
