From a student to a developer

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STUDENT -> SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

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WHO AM I? ▸ Azuan @ tokwan ▸ Diploma & degree in UTeM ( BITD ) ▸ Currently working as a software developer in Suria Labs ▸ iOS and Ruby on Rails developer ▸ Sometimes I helped to organise MYCocoaHeads events in KL

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I HOPE TO MOTIVATE YOU I'm not here to brag

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WHAT I USED TO DO ▸ Oracle ▸ MySQL ▸ Java SE/EE ▸ SVN WHAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW ▸ PostgreSQL ▸ Ruby / Rails ▸ Javascript ▸ Objective-C / Swift ▸ Git

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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BECOME IN 5 YEARS?

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SO YOU WANT TO BECOME A DEVELOPER? ▸ Front-end developer ▸ Back-end developer ▸ Mobile developer ▸ Full stack developer ▸ DevOps ▸ Data scientist

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WHICH LANGUAGE? ▸ Java ▸ Php ▸ Ruby ▸ JavaScript ▸ Python ▸ C++ ▸ Swift ▸ R ▸ C#

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WHICH FRAMEWORK? ▸ Ruby on Rails ▸ Sinatra ▸ JSF ▸ Grails ▸ Laravel ▸ CodeIgniter ▸ ReactiveCocoa ▸ RxSwift

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WHAT NOW? ▸ Learn all the things? ▸ Go back home and sleep? ▸ Watch more cat videos? ▸ Watch more 'inspirational videos'? ;)

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THIS IS MY JOURNEY (SO FAR)

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DIPLOMA - C++ ▸ Learned C++ in ﬁrst semester ▸ First impression: Wrote so many lines of 'text', all it showed was "Hello World" ▸ I was not impressed ▸ Joined a few programming contests in 2nd year ▸ Because it looks fun ▸ And money

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ASK When in doubt

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DIPLOMA - JAVA ▸ Joined Infosys in 2009 ▸ Learned Java / JSF / Oracle /PL/SQL / HTML / Javascript ▸ Met lots of clever people ▸ Was ranked 33 out of 100 ▸ It was awesome

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DIPLOMA - JAVA ▸ Back to UTeM ▸ I got bored ▸ Assignments are boring ▸ Projects are boring

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DIPLOMA - JAVA ▸ Started to use more Java ▸ Build desktop apps, write scripts, websites with Java ▸ Use Java instead of C++ in programming contests ▸ Read about Java API, because it helps A LOT in programming contests ▸ Win == money

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DIPLOMA ▸ What I told my friends ▸ I'm getting married ▸ An arranged marriage ▸ I'll be gone for a week, which I really did

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DIPLOMA - OBJECTIVE-C ▸ What I really did ▸ Join MDeC iOS program ▸ Learn iOS in 5 days ▸ No place to stay, sleep at mosque

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DIPLOMA - OBJECTIVE-C ▸ Learned Objective-C ▸ First impression: It's like C and Java just got married ▸ Chris Hong ▸ MIT graduate ▸ I look up to him ▸ Had more fun building mobile app than web application

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DIPLOMA ▸ Applied for WWDC scholarship, because it's free anyway ▸ Turns out I got it! ▸ Only cover the ticket though ▸ Couldn't join

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DIPLOMA - REVIEW ▸ C++ is pretty fast ▸ The syntax is a bit confusing sometimes ▸ Java got lots of cool API ▸ Can build web app too ▸ Oracle is big ▸ You can program in the database too

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DIPLOMA - REVIEW ▸ Objective-C syntax is a bit hard to understand ▸ But learn it more on free time anyway ▸ Because building mobile apps is fun

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WHAT I SHOULD DITCH ▸ C++ ▸ Java ▸ Oracle ▸ Objective-C WHAT I SHOULD FOCUS ON

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DEGREE ▸ Chose BITD ▸ I want to understand more about database ▸ I can learn programming on free time

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DEGREE ▸ Worked as a part time / freelance programmer ▸ Learned to code Php (without Dreamweaver of course) ▸ Learned about frameworks ▸ CodeIgniter (Php) ▸ JSF (Java)

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DEGREE ▸ Php was okay ▸ But more interested in Java ▸ Shared the same house with my Infosys Java lecturer ▸ More exposure to Java frameworks, ORM, code debugging and technique

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DEGREE - ANDROID ▸ Learned to build an Android apps ▸ Using Java ▸ Simulator was so slow I can't even ▸ Everything feels slow ▸ Slow

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DEGREE - WINDOWS PHONE ▸ Tried building a Windows Phone apps ( a game ) ▸ Was my ﬁrst hackathon ▸ Learned and build a game with 2 strangers in 3 days ▸ Used VB.NET -> C# ▸ The app performance was really great

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DEGREE - GIT ▸ Learned about Git ▸ I can commit locally! ▸ With SVN, you need to have a centralised server

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DEGREE ▸ My housemate got a job with a great salary because he is a certiﬁed Java developer ▸ Decided to take it as well ▸ Studied for 1 month ▸ Slept 3-5 hours a day ▸ Never studied for so hard in my whole life ▸ It's because I've paid RM300+ for the exam

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Had to Photoshop the photo, because I rebond my hair.  It was hilarious

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DEGREE ▸ Joined more programming contests ▸ Went to KL to join events ▸ Went by bike at 5pm ▸ Went back to Melaka at 1am ▸ Reason? To be inspired ▸ There are lots of great people out there

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DEGREE ▸ Java was really fun ▸ Android was not ▸ Windows phone was fun too ▸ Learn Ruby on Rails. Was not so sure what's so great about it ▸ I can do web programming, database management ▸ But, I wanted to do iOS

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DEGREE - BEFORE INTERN ▸ I felt like there were two path ▸ Corporate tech - Java/Oracle ▸ High payment, lots of beneﬁt ▸ More stable ▸ Startup tech - Php/Objective-C ▸ Latest tools and technology ▸ A bit unclear about the path

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MAYBE NOT? ▸ SVN ▸ Android ▸ Windows Phone ▸ Java web app ▸ Oracle ▸ PL/SQL ▸ Database management ▸ Git ▸ Php ▸ Ruby on Rails ▸ Objective-C ▸ MySQL MAYBE THIS?

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DEGREE - INTERN ▸ Join Taxi Monger ▸ As an iOS developer ▸ By coincidence, with help from a lecturer ▸ Impressed with startup ecosystem and community ▸ Worked in a great team

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WORKING ▸ Tried Ruby on Rails again ▸ I was impressed when I ﬁnally understand the ﬂow ▸ Decided not to do Php anymore ▸ Javascript is everywhere, but I don't really get it ▸ I can do it. I just don't really understand the language design

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WHAT TO FOCUS ON ▸ Objective-C ▸ Ruby on Rails ▸ Probably Javascript somewhere in the future

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WHERE AM I TODAY ▸ Doing Ruby on Rails on daily basis ▸ Or iOS ▸ Or Javascript ▸ Or maybe ReactNative

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MINASWAN ▸ "Matz is nice and so we are nice" ▸ Ruby creator

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ON LEARNING ▸ To learn is the ﬁrst step ▸ Apply what you've learned ▸ Start exploring ▸ Go one step further ▸ How to go further?

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IOS ▸ Started with Objective-C ▸ Syntax was confusing at ﬁrst ▸ Mobile and web application are two different things ▸ Gained more conﬁdent when apps was live at the App Store

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IOS ▸ WWDC 2014 ▸ Apple introduced Swift ▸ Took a gamble and just abandoned Objective-C ▸ Swift improved ▸ 1.0 => 1.1 => 1.2 => 2.0 => 2.1 ▸ It was painful

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IOS ▸ Subscribed to weekly newsletters, join Slack groups, Facebook groups ▸ Getting better with the syntax ▸ Swift libraries are growing, which is good

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IOS ▸ So what's next? Learn new programming language? ▸ No, please no

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IOS ▸ Buy books, watch more advance videos about Swift ▸ Learn how the language itself works ▸ New paradigm: ▸ Functional programming in Swift ▸ Reactive programming in Swift ▸ Reactive functional programming in Swift ▸ Test Driven Development (TDD) in iOS

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DEGREE IS NOT WORTH IT ANYMORE? ▸ If you only go to classes and do assignments/projects ▸ If you are not growing ▸ If you are not self aware of what you're doing ▸ If you don't spend some time get to know lecturers ▸ Not just the ones that teaches you ▸ There are so much things that you can learn from them

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SO WHICH LANGUAGE / FRAMEWORK SHOULD I LEARN? ▸ Pick 1-2 as your core and be damn good at it ▸ My case: Ruby/Ruby on Rails and Swift ▸ Why? Because I'm having fun when I code in those languages ▸ Just don't try to learn everything. You can't ▸ I repeat, you CAN'T

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SO WHICH LANGUAGE / FRAMEWORK SHOULD I LEARN? ▸ It's cool if you know 10 languages ▸ But if you've shipped zero product, none of it matters anyway ▸ Learn new ones too, or at least get to know them a little bit ▸ Because it's fun ▸ Also because it forces you to think differently

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WHAT ELSE? ▸ Find friends, or create a team ▸ Avoid illusory superiority ▸ Can't ﬁnd one? Try harder. Internet is huge

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HAVE FUN Whatever it is,

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LOOK TO THE MASTER, FOLLOW THE MASTER, WALK WITH THE MASTER, SEE THROUGH THE MASTER, BECOME THE MASTER

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SLACK ▸ I've created a Slack group for FTMK ▸ Main purpose is to talk about tech, or FTMK in general ▸ Students can get to know each other more too ▸ Why not just use Facebook? Because Slack is more like a chatting room rather than a page ▸ Link to register: https://ftmkroom.herokuapp.com