The Journey to Become A successful Software Engineer

 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

CS60 Advanced Research Project Africa

Author: Mark Sikaundi💕

In this article will be sharing a life journey to become a successful developer. This does not filter those not been to college. This will also apply to  non computer science holder or diploma holders.

who are software engineers?

A lot of people do ask that question. well nearly everyone can become a software engineer, what just really matters is how much one is putting in. To start with i will give a little explanation about who is a software engineer, how can one pursue this career and what are some of the prerequisites needed for on to become. Software engineering is the systematic application of engineering approaches to the development of software. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. This was just a hint, well we dive into a bit deeper for us do have a solid understanding what's all about software engineering and the like's. Learn more about software engineering

what role do software engineer play?

This is another famous question, beginners ask. when you decide to take career in software development or engineer, they are few things one should understand before starting. Most software developers or engineers  they have a huge task to do in the industry. This range from writing the freaking codes, debugging, deploying. all the stated roles are carried by software engineers. you can imagine building a software or given a task to debug a software, time spending and charges. They' is a story around saying software engineers are highly paid. well cant go against this, but all I can say is that, their a lot of money in the industry yes on if you know what you doing.

If you really want to become a good software engineer, write a lot of codes, debug and be creative. yes creativity is one key one can become a good developer of or engineer. I remember when i just started learning coding in 2013, i didn't know where to start, who to ask but would just grab my desktop keyboard and start checking from Google. One of the fun question would ask be like, how to become a software engineer, a times would get a 404 error message saying the search details are incorrect.

IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW WHEN YOU WANT TO BECOME A SOFTWARE ENGINEER

1.  why do you want to become a software engineer?

2.  Programming languages

3.  how long are you going to dedicate yourself to learn

4.  what materials available to help you.

👉Few aspects why knowing what you want to become important. 

One of the reason, it will make you stay motivated, Focus, determined and serious. This comes with experience of being a 5year experienced developer.

👉Programming languages what's so special about programming languages relates to development and the likes? well knowing your footsteps and your strong hold is very cardinal. Near all the developers from both Junior, Senior have done coding in HTML, CSS & JavaScript.

 we all started from here where you would write a barely simple html code and get to be happy. But after a while you begin to specialized after knowing what you want to do with your coding skills. Knowing your area of interest will help you plan and stay focus to improve and advance your skill sets.