Gus Pear ๐Ÿ

Gus Pear ๐Ÿ @gustavupp

About: Self-taught Developer โ€ข I help you land your first dev job with posts on programming and self-mastery โ€ข @theguspear ๐Ÿฆ

Location:
Brisbane
Joined:
Oct 28, 2022

Gus Pear ๐Ÿ
articles - 17 total

Time for a change? 6 questions to decide if changing careers or moving abroad is the right move

I feel like I face these types of โ€œlife-changingโ€ questions every couple of years. You as well at...

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How To Read For Maximum Retention

โ€œThis reading technique put me in the top 2% of all my classes from undergrad school to my masters at...

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14 Research-Backed Techniques To Learn To Code 2x Faster

Iโ€™ve been fascinated by โ€œhow to learn anything fasterโ€ since I was 18. I found an online course...

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Wish You Had More Time? They Did Tooโ€ฆ

Did you ever stop to think that most of the worldโ€™s great men achieved their life work, not in their...

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C# FileStream For Lazy Developers In A Hurry. The Bare Minimum

If you: Have no idea what a stream is Have a blurry idea but need a better analogy Don't know how...

Learn More 18 0Feb 28 '23

The Recursion Explanation I Wish I Had Read As A Self-Taught Developer

It took me several attempts to understand recursive functions. Once I understood how it works, I...

Learn More 124 43Feb 16 '23

6 Reasons Mastering DSA Can Double Your Paycheck, Make You A Better Dev And Boost Your Confidence

I am sitting in a room with another 6 candidates. My hands are sweating and my heart pounding fast....

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5 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned From Being Laid Off That Will Put You Ahead Of 97% Of People

I am sitting in this auditorium with 50 other coworkers. Our manager and the HR lady are there. They...

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5 Reasons To Choose JavaScript Maps Over Objects For Storing Key-Value Pairs(With Examples)

At 18 I started my "career" as an IT support guy. At 20 I was flying 80 hours per month as a flight...

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9 Common JavaScript Interview Questions You Might Not Know The Answer For.

Whether you like them or not, tricky questions are still asked by interviewers in the wild. The...

Learn More 66 28Jan 14 '23

9 Essential Array Puzzles To Level Up Your JavaScript [JS Foundation]

There are no shortcuts to becoming a great problem solver(which is what a dev is). Mastery comes at...

Learn More 78 6Jan 7 '23

The Complete Guide To JavaScript's .reduce() Function (With Real-world Examples)

In this guide we are going to cover: What is the .reduce() function? Creating our version of the...

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How I learned to code and got a job in 7 months (No CS degree)

I don't have a computer science degree. I didn't go to a BootCamp. It only cost me $65. I'm in my...

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How to work with JSON data on SQL Server

DO you know how to write a SQL script to update a column that stores JSON data. Not the whole column,...

Learn More 11 0Dec 13 '22

All Resources I Used To Teach Myself How To Code (From Day 1 Til I Got A Job)

If you are short on time and just want to get the resources, I posted all links at the end of the...

Learn More 62 12Dec 9 '22

Understanding C# Events

The title should be more like "Going from delegates to events" because events are literally built on...

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Understanding C# Delegates

The first programming language I learned was JavaScript. A bit further down the track, I started...

Learn More 0 1Oct 29 '22