finally i get to make this video i've seen this video being made by many many tech youtubers and um finally i can make it because it's been exactly NUMBER_TOKEN years that i've been coding which means from NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN today so i thought by the time i finished making this video it would be NUMBER_TOKEN so that's why i pretended as if it were already NUMBER_TOKEN. sorry um also i just want to note that i know a lot of you might use this video as a playbook for what classes to take what side projects to do or what companies to work for don't i mean everyone's path is different even if you've been working at a different industry and you don't have a cs degree like me it doesn't mean you can't get into tech this portion of the video is sponsored by growth google like which is why i want to talk about growth google and their google career certificate which is the sponsor of today's video i truly believe in what they're doing i finally found online courses that really teach you real world skills that you actually use on the job i mean it's taught by google so the quality is really high plus you actually get a certificate that is recognized by top employers including google of course whether it's in data analytics ux design or project management they have a course for that and a certificate to put on your resume to show your future employers i took a look at their data analytics course since i was once a data scientist myself and i have to say their course on coursera really teaches you the stuff you need to know to be well equipped on the job the course is very comprehensive so even if you have no relevant experience you can go at your own pace and learn everything you need honestly i think it would have helped a lot for me as well since they use the tools that i use that work like sql tableau and r if you're thinking of learning a new skill or you want to start or advance your career check out URL_TOKEN certificates that portion of the video was sponsored by growth google now back to the video year NUMBER_TOKEN the year of initiation i joined the robotics club in school where we had to build a robot to compete in a competition called crc i was not a big fan of manual labor because using any hand tools would potentially break my beautiful nails so that was out of the question there was only one thing left for me programming the robot's brain now i didn't even know what programming was back then i just read the instructions and tried to make it work so that we can control our robot with the joystick what i used to do that was their own simplified language called robot c of course our team won the whole thing the whole competition but that's also because we were competing against NUMBER_TOKEN year olds and we were NUMBER_TOKEN at the time so NUMBER_TOKEN was also the year i started college at university of waterloo and i took my first cs course called designing functional programs so i wrote code like this no loops no variables but lots of recursion so what i learned no one is too dumb for computer science year NUMBER_TOKEN. in NUMBER_TOKEN i became a finance wannabe you have to pronounce it finance not finance so i was a finance wannabe freshman year is the year of doing things just to pad your pitiful resume you know it i know it no need to lie to me
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN this portion of the video is sponsored by growth google like which is why i want to talk about growth google and their google career certificate which is the sponsor of today's video i truly believe in what they're doing i finally found online courses that really teach you real world skills that you actually use on the job i mean it's taught by google so the quality is really high plus you actually get a certificate that is recognized by top employers including google of course whether it's in data analytics ux design or project management they have a course for that and a certificate to put on your resume to show your future employers i took a look at their data analytics course since i was once a data scientist myself and i have to say their course on coursera really teaches you the stuff you need to know to be well equipped on the job the course is very comprehensive so even if you have no relevant experience you can go at your own pace and learn everything you need honestly i think it would have helped a lot for me as well since they use the tools that i use that work like sql tableau and r if you're thinking of learning a new skill or you want to start or advance your career check out URL_TOKEN certificates that portion of the video was sponsored by growth google now back to the video END_SPONSOR_TOKEN