Learn a little bit about who I am, how I started my journey into web development and why I started this channel - DevSage.
My name is Patrick and I am a software engineer and a full stack web developer. "Software engineer" is my official job title, but I started doing web development years ago (before I even knew what a software engineer was) since I was probably 16 or 17.
I can't quite remember but I think one of my older cousins sent me a video called 'What Most Schools Don't Teach'. This was a quick 5 minute video of short interviews with different people like Bill Gates, Chris Bosh, Mark Zuckerburg and others. They were being interviewed about how they got into coding and what coding actually was. After watching that video, 16 year old me thought that coding was pretty cool and that I definitely wanted to learn it!
After a while, I stumbled upon Codecademy - an online resource for learning the foundations of coding and web development. I began the HTML/CSS course and I liked it. I thought it was so cool to be able to tell a computer what I wanted it to do, and have it do it. Anyways, I finished the HTML/CSS course and naturally, I moved on to the JavaScript course. And after taking the Javascript course, it really strengthened how I felt about coding, I knew that coding was definitely something I wanted to keep doing.
Fast forward - I kept learning and taking different courses (jQuery, React.js, Angular, Git, side projects etc) and maybe a year later, I took my first Java programming class in high school and that exposed me to a whole other side of coding. The side geared towards software engineering. Taking that Java class in high school really played a big role in my decision to study computer science in the fall after I graduated.
So, I went off to college that fall as a comp sci major and I didn't regret it. College level computer science is very different than standard web development. It's more focused on creating software engineers so I took classes on operating systems, databases, networks, algorithms, data structures, mobile apps and more. I was able to get the best of both worlds - web development and software engineering.
In about my junior year of college, I interviewed for and landed a software engineering internship at a company in my area. The nice thing about my internship was that it wasn't seasonal. The company I interned at was gracious enough to let me work my internship around my class schedule, so I was able to work throughout the year around my classes all the way up until graduation. And now that I'm done with school, I'm happily working full time at the company I had interned at.
So how did DevSage, the YouTube channel, come about?
I originally started DevSage back around my sophomore year in college because I wanted to start making tutorials and build my online presence a little bit. I would see guys like TraversyMedia and learncodecademy on Youtube and I would think, "I could do that too". But there were so many guys already doing tutorials. What makes me different? How do I stand out?
Well, the way I stand out is by being as simple as possible. There are so many content creators that teach web dev ineffectively. They could know 10000 things about the topic they're trying to teach, but because they're lousy teachers, they aren't able to relay information to others effectively.
I've seen it myself so many times. I'm largely self-taught when it comes to web development so I used to watch a lot of tutorials. So I might click on a 15 minute long tutorial but by the end of it I'm not able to tell you about the thing I just watched.
So, making my tutorials very simple and easy to understand is something I try and center my videos around.
What Most Schools Don't Teach
• What Most Schools Don't Teach
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