8 Rules For Learning to Code in 2025...and should you?

I don't agree with rule number 3. What about if you're a polymath?

Good advice for any profession, really. If you aren't really keen and looking forward to learning your profession at every stage of learning, how in the world do you think you're going to do it for years? I'm a teacher, and NOT ONCE have I ever thought about teaching a class with negative thoughts. I've taught for many years and I STILL look forward to teaching every single lesson, I teach! I still look at every lesson to see how I can do it better next time. THAT is the attitude you need for ANY profession. If you don't have that attitude for learning your profession, you're learning the wrong profession and will never do well in that profession, let alone be happy in it.

of course it's dead. In a sense that kids, literally 13 year old boys and girls will be able to do low-code/no-code better than 30 year old farts with no energy. How are you going to compete with all the young people? Have you seen how young people use the phones and apps and all that new tech.

Bullshit

Is there a general consensus on whether or not teaching yourself (as opposed to formal education) hinders your ability to get a job? I've been looking at Georgia Tech's online masters in computer science, but if it doesn't provide a clear advantage in the job market, then I'd probably enjoy some other online courses more (e.g., the bootdev sponsor from this video, udemy courses, etc.)...

I found this very helpful I can’t tell you how daunting learning to code has been but your calm and simple way of explaining what to come has made me feel at ease and ready to learn

Thank you

It's an over saturated, easily outsourced occupation that is now competing with AI. Over 300,000 tech folks have been cut over the last 3 years. Good luck to anyone thinking they should be investing in learning how to code right now.

i 100% agree with this video people barelly even use A.I.(Artificial Inteligence)

If that real I'll Go Farm Career

I don't see any indication that a function with a trillion parameters simulating a stochastic process is going to replace software engineers. It may eliminate them if people remain gullible, yes. But then who will actually write usable code?! Also, we should not forget that AI is only as good as we are. If we stop feeding it good questions and good solutions and will instead start feeding it bad ones, the best outcome we can hope for is those bad solutions coming right back at us. :)

Developers and engineers will be replaced by AI, just like mathematicians were replaced by calculators and accountants were replaced by Excel... oh, hang on one second...

Fear is the oldest trick in the book to manipulate people. The "AI will take all your jobs" narrative — and the "AI is mega dangerous and destroy humanity" narrative — are mostly here to get everyone so scared that they talk about AI like crazy... and this huge attention converts into money on the stock market. Yes, AI is already useful for developing but as you say only for MVPs. Otherwise it's cool to use within developer sofware like Visual Code so you can code faster. But we still need devs, much more devs.

I think you are right

Do you have a link for blinders?

hell yeah easy peasy

Interesting, someone I know is looking for a job in this profession, he is a programmer

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2025學習編程的八大法則——值得學習嗎？
在未來的世界，編程是否仍然是不可或缺的技能？隨著人工智能（AI）的崛起，一些人堅信學習編程已經不再重要，甚至有人認為AI將會取代所有這些工作。但事實真是如此嗎？對此我有不同看法。讓我們來探討為何學習編程，特別是在2025年，仍然是值得考慮的選擇，並且分享八大法則來幫助你在這條路上取得成功。
1. 熱愛編程
學習編程的首要條件是必須熱愛它。在五到六年前，編程行業的需求極大，許多人進入這個領域可能是因為高薪而非對編程的熱情。然而，如今的情況已經不同。如果你對編程沒有熱情，這條路將會十分艱難。真正的成功來自於對編程的愛好和堅持。
2. 投入努力
學習編程沒有捷徑可言。儘管AI可以幫助生成代碼，幫助解決某些問題，但你仍然需要自己學習基礎知識，掌握HTML、CSS、JavaScript等技術，並能夠運用它們解決問題並構建項目。這需要大量的時間和練習。
3. 將其融入生活
成功的開發者不僅是工作中有編程，還把編程融入生活。他們的Twitter帳號充滿了技術分享，GitHub上積極更新項目，甚至經常寫博客來分享學習心得。如果你希望在這個領域立足，必須將編程作為生活的一部分。
4. 明確的學習計劃
成功的關鍵之一是擁有一個具體的學習計劃。這不僅是“我想學編程”，而是要細化到每週學習哪些內容、達到什麼目標。只有制定清晰的時間表和學習計劃，才能確保自己不會偏離正軌。
5. 保持專注
在學習編程的過程中，會有很多分心的因素。例如，會有人告訴你要學習一些不相關的技能，或者使用一些不常見的工具。這些都可能讓你迷失方向。堅持專注於你的學習目標，避免過多的干擾，才能順利完成學習。
6. 建立人脈
編程學習的過程中，人脈的作用不容忽視。無論是找到導師，還是通過人脈進入工作市場，建立與他人合作的關係都是關鍵。加入開發者社群，活躍在社交平台，這樣能在未來的職業生涯中獲得更多的機會和支持。
7. 克服恐懼
當你開始申請工作時，會面臨許多不確定性和恐懼。自學編程的人常常會對自己的能力產生懷疑，尤其是在技術面試中。然而，正是這些挑戰和困難能夠推動你成長，當你能克服這些心理障礙時，成功也將隨之而來。
8. 避免過度依賴AI
雖然AI可以成為學習編程的助手，但過度依賴它可能會讓你失去學習的動力和必要的基礎知識。初學者應該專注於理解編程的基本概念，只有當你掌握了這些基礎，AI才會真正成為你提高技能的有力工具。

Rule number one.

Stop wasting your time with channels like this one.

FYI, plumbers make better money than most devs nowadays. Thanks offshoring.

I respect your opinion however I've now gone from Police to Web Developer thats been laid off for the past 8 months I've now started to learn Plumbing.

Thnak you man !!! May Lord Jesus Christ bless us.

Once in exhibition of xxx world, I met a male porn star. We just had a normal chitchat and I asked him, do you like what you do? He said no. I surprised😮 and I asked him again why? He said, if you do same thing everyday then it becomes boring and the fun of doing will go away, because there is no curiousity left anymore. So he was right about this.

very inspiring! am taking my first steps to coding and this video has given me the impetus to move on with it. thanks @TravisMedia

really helpfull

People fail to understand that AI is only as good as it's code and the material people feed it. If there was no one left to understand the code or make art/writing/music/etc., it wouldn't take long before all innovation stops and the quality of the AIs deteriorate. We need creatives and experts

I actually believe you. I am better with the technical skills and AI skills will be an addition

As a dev, I KNOW its now a limited career. Get out now, we lost 50% of our team to ai this month.

Turned of with python and go being back end dev 😂😂😂😂 muppet

i will leave this industry it is not safe i will change my job

Personally I find these "AI will replace coders" videos perhaps the most bizarre thing in my life and I started to watch them just for the lols of that. What are these guys actually - ehm - "coding" to be afraid of LLM AI? Hello world samples? "Guess the number" scripts?

I cannot even fathom how AI could solve a single true programmer's problem of any real project. For example: Some pointer gets corrupted somewhere and then causes a crash. Without a true analysis and understanding the complex relations in the code flow you have literally zero chance to find it out.

It can be libraries stack/alignment usage mismatch you do not even have the source code for in the first place. It can be some racing condition of multiple threads. It can be overwritten memory somewhere with completely unrelated part of the code to the place where it occurs.

The only way to find such things is start the damn old fashioned debugger, or do logs and actually think (about the output). Nothing the current so called "AI" can ever do. Or statistically glue together from github fragments.

What about laying off hundreds and thousands of employees in the USA?

The delusion

Thank you for the good video I'm learning a lot

Anythings easier than my life so I'm good .let's do this

Thanks for the real talk. No shortcuts

I am a plumber😢

I'm wondering what percentage of the software / IT people write blogs, articles, tweets code snipets, shares screenshots of source code with pink harts and rainbow unicorns on insta? The extrovert bunch, I guess.
It's a stereotype that software / IT people are somewhat introverts. Stereotypes have some real-life base.
Who hires the colleagues who are introverts?
(Yeah, it was a 'comment! comment! comment!' trap in the video :-) It raises the points for the channel, but I'm not gonna subscribe, although I had wanted until this point.)

As a web and software dev. AI helps but. it's useless on new related code. You need a dev to ask it code related questions. AI loves to not understand a lot of the time for EG. (make a function for X in expo React native) it will decide to do it in HTML or something stupid. "You have done this in html" your correct let me fix this for you" (does the same thing)..il just write this myself. Web and software devs will ALWAYS be needed. unless there is some magic AI that can train on updated code each week with the fixes and such. don't get me wrong here it helps amazingly well sometimes. at times you will need to give it the document pages. as a reference. otherwise, it just makes its own code up. Ai can only do what it knows. meaning older code/no new innovations.

meanwhile if you want to learn code software or web go for it! there always needed.

90% Ai tools among devs are probably devs of those AI tools using them during QA stage :)

I am a senior developer and see a lot of AI assisted back end developing going on. There are even apps that build a complete pipeline into Azure and back, including servers, middleware, databases and frontends just by a few instructions. But hey there is always Etsy.

Good morning Travis I love the content in the video that you put out very informative. I was inquiring if it’s possible if you can mentor me

Fantastic discussion
Excellent analysis
Thank you Sir

Awesome bro

AI should be YOUR bitch, not the converse. It is for the repetetive but necessary chug work.

Cut it out, plumbing is a rudimentary coding skill. Where else do you think we got the concept of “spaghetti code” from. Don’t know what I mean? Guess you still have a lot of plumbing to do! 😂

AI will never replace meat machines because AI is trained (at this current iteration) on the entire Internet… and most of the coding for the existing Internet is absolute garbage. AI is a hype machine for venture capitalists and Bored Ape bozos.