Kick-Starting a Career in Programming

How?

• You should be interested in programming (and/or Mathematics)

  • How to get interested?
  • It's simple, write code

• And then, you become better at programming

  • How?

Here's How?

• Learn any programming language

  • Just the basics should do to start off

• [Optional] Get yourself familiarized with some DSA

  • Again, just the basics should do

Then, Compete

• Why?

  • I don't know of a faster and more effective way

• How?

  • There are various platforms to compete

• And?

  • Fail, get up, learn, and fail again...

• And Practice

  • I just can't emphasize on this more

Platforms

• GeeksForGeeks

• LeetCode

• HackerRank

• CodeChef

• Codeforces

Why?

• What's in it for you?

  • Get a real-world feel of Computer Science
  • Relate to CS topics a lot more, and practically
  • Find a passion for yourself
  • Find a healthy community of like-minded people
  • Become a super fast learner and programmer
  • Become a smarter person (maybe)
  • And?
  • You can ace technical job interviews
  • And get a job in Software Engineering
  • And live (possibly) a better life

Is this the only way?

• No

• Then what?

• Dev vs CP?

• A trashy argument, right?

• How to take the other route?

  • Learn various development technologies
  • Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
  • Open source projects on GitHub/GitLab/...
  • Competing at Hackathons

That's it!