Zero To 10x Developer

Jumpstart Your Career As A Software Developer

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1. Favour Chukwuedo GDG Ado-Ekiti @SenseiFavour Zero To 10x Developer Jumpstart your career as a Software Developer
2. @senseifavour
3. 3 When we announced #DevFestAdoEkiti
4. 4 When registration started
5. 5 Thank you all for joining my session
6. Thanks I have your attention
7. Zero/Ordinary Developers 10x Developers Vs
8. Zero/Ordinary Developers - Learn - Code - Eat - Sleep
9. 10x Developers - Learn - Code - Network - Share - Communicate - Leverage - Analysis - Eat - Relax
10. Learn
11. Read Medium Articles - FreeCodeCamp - Mindorks - Hackernoon - DailyJS - Google Developers Experts
12. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning
13. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Follow people on Twitter
15. Watch Online Videos And Courses - Udacity - Udemy - Google Developers - LearnWebCode - MTechViral
16. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Join any 1 online course
17. Attend Events - GDG AdoEkiti - KwaraBuild - AI Saturday - TensorFlow Dev Summit - Google I/O Extended - Cloud Study Jam Find more on Meetup
18. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Question: Why do you attend events?
19. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Join any 1 meetup group/community
20. Extra Tips - Be in a group of passionate People - Take part in online forums - Github organisation (Open source)
21. Attention! You can not and Need not to learn everything coming out in the market
22. Make a plan for learning You can not and Need not to learn everything coming out in the market - Prepare a list of all topics/things that you want to learn - May be a list of things that you are lagging behind in your domain - Decide the priority of each topics and reset the order - Select top 3 - Make a plan for Learning 1st - Continue until you are done with all 3 things
23. Code
24. Have a Pet project - Develop something you are passionate about - To solve problems
25. Have a Pet project - Develop something you are passionate about - To solve problems - Can’t try out all the things in client projects
26. Have a Pet project - Develop something you are passionate about - To solve problems - Can’t try out all the things in client projects - Side Income
27. Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository
28. Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository - Make your own repo
29. Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository - Make your own repo - Discuss and learn - Helps you in building your profile - Places you for Career opportunities
30. Pair Programming
31. Peer to peer Code Review
32. Network
33. Attend Events Take part in forums - Meet new people - Learn from experts - Discuss with people - Know what they are developing
34. Deliver Talks - Gets you to connect with community members and experts
35. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Take selfie with 5 new people and upload over social media and tag them
36. Share
37. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller “Teach is to learn twice”
38. Write blogs/articles - How to start with blogging???? Somewhere you will have to start, right? - Write in parts - Get it reviewed Benefits: - Online friends/followers - Build your own profile - Communication skills improved
39. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Write a blog on your #DevFestAdoEkiti experience
40. Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs - Full length talks - Session in company
41. Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me
42. Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me Objection 2: I don’t know NOTHING
43. Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me Objection 2: I don’t know NOTHING Objection 3: Rejection, keep submitting!
44. Communicate
45. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team
46. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update
47. Daily Status update Today’s status update: Today’s update: - Worked on X thing - IN PROGRESS - Worked on Y thing - COMPLETED. Hosted on server Plan for tomorrow: - Work on Z thing
48. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller Exercise: Start sharing Daily Status Update from tomorrow
49. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update - Share proper commitments
50. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update - Share proper commitments - Share concerns at right time
51. Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update - Share proper commitments - Share concerns at right time - English Communication Skills
52. Analysis
53. Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly before you jump on the development part
54. Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly before you jump on the development part
55. Extra point: - Control your emotions when there is a change in requirement
56. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted” - George Keller “Change is the only Constant” “Boss (Client) is always right”
57. Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly and then jump on the development part - Corner cases and User scenarios
58. Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly and then jump on the development part - Corner cases and User scenarios - Request for the documentation (Software Requirements Specification, User stories)
59. Analysis skill - Ask the right questions
60. Analysis skill - Ask the right questions - Make no assumptions
61. Analysis skill - Ask the right questions - Make no assumptions - Realise what you don’t know
62. Eat & Relax
63. Eat & Relax - Take enough rest - Maintain schedule - Go for walk - Give time for yourself CLEAR OUT CACHE
64. Concluding... - Learn and add at least 1 new skill per year in your resume - Attend at least 1 new course in a quarter - Follow Goal based learning - Keep learning, keep sharing - Meet new people and learn from them - Follow experts over your favorite media - Sharpen your analysis skill - Stay passionate! Invest in good chairs to save yourself from Back pain
65. TechQuest Technology Academy https://www.portal.tqstem.org ekiti@techquestclub.com
66. Favour Chukwuedo GDG Ado-Ekiti @SenseiFavour Thank You