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29. From Unsatisfactory A-Levels to Successful Mobile App Development: Tinashe Muzondiwa's Journey
- 2023/02/05
- 再生時間： 36 分
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1:00 Who is Tinashe Mzondiwa? 2:00 Tinashe is happy he failed his A Levels 6:40 Software Development being all about just solving a problem 7:00 Developing the Shona Ndebele SDA hymnal app 8:40 How to publish and market an app 10:39 How projects matter so much in software development. You can leverage the things you’ve built. 12:50 Society and parents are so hard on you when you get school wrong early on. 14:14 How did Tinashe go from missing the bar in A level to building and deploying a successful app on the App Store and Google play store. Being passionate and working hard. 19:00 Tonderai talks about what it was like working at Instacart versus Slack Feeling impostor syndrome working at Instacart. 22:00 Lessons learned moving from Southern Africa to Canada Chances of making it as an entrepreneur greater in North America. 24:00 The pressure of coming into a senior developer role without ever having worked in the country or having done an internship Answering Frequently Asked Software Developer Questions: 25:00 Best programming language - depends on the problem you have. It’s just a tool 26:00 What is the best way to stay up to date with software engineering trends - Follow engineers you aspire to be like and see what they’re tweeting, what’s important to them 27:00 What’s changed in the software engineering industry since you started 29:00 What’s the job outlook for software engineers? 32:00 What Tinashe misses most about Zimbabwe? It has to do with supermarkets 33:00 How to reach Tinashe? 34:00 Tinashe gives a shoutout to 3 people dead or alive 34:40 Advice for someone with impostor syndrome as a developer There are free courses online to get started. Just be passionate