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 ||  The Reality of Starting to Code  || The reality of coding that no one talks about. Not enough people talk about the reality of learning how to code. Some may say that coding is just learning another language or just telling the computer what to do. This is intended for people who program and want to relate and people who are interested in learning more about the life of programming.  First starting out fresh in school I thought I would be struggling the most with learning the languages like C++ and Python. This is still true as I'm always learning more of the language however I feel like most of my time is done with debugging. I feel like not enough people talk about debugging and how it's the worst thing going through your code and finding out it's not working from a missing { or different named variables. The reality of coding is wasting hours of your time looking through your code wondering why it's not working, and searching the web with error codes only to ...

 Starting out as a Software Developer This is my experience with beginning my degree in software development. This has become such a journey and I'm here to tell you the tips and experiences I have discovered while studying software development. To begin I am studying my first year in a degree in Software Development - Game Design. This degree lasts for 3 years at a private school named Media Design School. The school has many great opportunities and has a great employment rate for graduates.  In my experience entering this new field, I have discovered many difficulties that others have also struggled with along the way. A trend of tips and tricks to tackle these common problems like learning to code and problem-solving. My first tip would be PRACTICE.  | Practice Code | This is the biggest tip I get told a lot and it's definitely the most helpful by far. The only way to get good at coding is to code. Wherever you go wherever you look there will always be people telling y...