 Signs that you are a programmer. Well, you used to write video, let me explain. This video was brought to you by DigiLink Academy. You're number one source to learning programming by us and get to that six figure freelance salary you desire. Our courses include our secret project course, our freelance Kickstarter, our Python course, and our interview programming course and much, much more. So if you haven't already, go ahead and click the link below to get to our free seven step freelance guide so that we can help take your career to the next level. I'll see you guys in the course. All right, guys, we want to figure out what if you want to be a programmer? What are signs of that? How can you tell? I got a few things here I want to share with you guys and definitely want to give you those so that if you do have these qualities, you are right to be a developer. If you're on this channel and listen to what I do, we already know where it is, but I want to give you more confirmation here and get into that, guys. So before I get into this, I'm curious on what you guys going to think as far as the signs of a developer. Comment below on what you think the signs are of being a developer. So go ahead and comment below so that I can compare my list to yours and then we can see if we got some stuff in comment and we can review. So go ahead and comment below. That being said, guys, there's a lot of signs, a lot of people trying to identify, well, how do I know I'm good for being a programmer, right? Tell me that so that I can commit to it. If I don't have it, I'll try something else and I'm gonna give you seven of them. So let's get right into this, guys. Number one, you're interested in software design and development. Have you ever been working with a piece of software or website and you're like, man, it would be better if they had this here or there or it's moving slow or I would do this different? That's a really good sign that you have the potential to be a developer. Just the fact that you're questioning some of the design and development and you offering enhancements, you would do that way. That's a really good sign that's been the developer, guys. And a lot of people just consume the product or consume the website or consume the software, but you're looking at it from a production standpoint and that's stuff that developers have to do and you just inherently just doing it automatically. So that lets me know, hey, you are really good at identifying an issue and then want to solve it or make an enhancement. So that's number one. Number two, guys, like we were saying before, you are a problem solver. Just like the previous example, website may run slow or it may take you a while to do a certain thing or it just completely broke and you're interested in fixing it. You're a problem solver. You like to identify problems. You like to progress things and find solutions. Really good indication of software developer, guys. As you tell, you're gonna do this for a living. You need to be identifying the problems and really put yourself in a position to win. Self-driven learning, guys. This is one that a lot of people don't necessarily think about because at the end of the day, in the early stage of development, yeah, people will tell you what to do. It's pretty straightforward. Learn foundation, syntax, first couple of projects. Give me steps. But once you start to get down the road in your journey, deeper into your journey, it's gonna be a lot of gray area to where you're gonna have to learn stuff that you didn't necessarily been directed to learn in order to get that project completed. So you have to be self-driven. If you're sitting there waiting on somebody to tell you step by step in an advanced project, you're never gonna get that project done. So it's important for you guys to be a self-driven learner and know that, hey, it's an obstacle in front of me. I need to figure out this and go through the steps of being able to identify this problem. Learn how to learn the steps to fix it and then learn everything and then go fix it. Self-driven, guys. That's very important quality of being a software developer. So if you are self-driven, that's another sign. Number four, you enjoy sitting at a desk. It's hard to be a developer if you hate sitting at a desk. And I'm not saying you have to just sit there for 12, 13 hours every day, but you can't hate it. So if you enjoy the fact that you're sitting at the desk in front of your computer, being able to look at the screen, stuff like that, that's a huge part of being a software developer. That's a good sign that you can be a software developer. So I'm not gonna stick on that. I wanted to give you guys some low-hanging fruit on that one as well. Fast learner. It's important that you guys have the ability to learn fast if you're gonna really take your career as software developer to the next level and be become an advanced developer. Because just like I was telling you guys, if you're self-driven, you identify a problem and you go to learn that problem. If it takes you months to learn, you're gonna struggle. So I wanna let you know now, again, you're not here to learn any of that all things. You just need to know that 20% or whatever it needs to be to solve or get that project completed. So that fast learner, identifying this hate, I need to know about JavaScript and this function right here. Let me learn about this function, just a high-level cliff notes. Okay, I can use this piece of code. Let me put that in there. Oh, great, I got my project finished. Okay, let's test it out, make sure we got all the bugs out and let the customer start reviewing. That's the kind of stuff learning you do wanna fly. That fast learning, that's gonna be a really critical part. That's why I tell you guys, don't go too far down that learning trail without having actual projects. Projects, I always say learn and implement a project. You got a project, you learn everything and you implement. You got a project, you learn things, you implement. That's my strategy. Yeah, at the beginning, you're gonna learn. It's very easy, you're gonna learn fundamental, your syntax, just the lingo, just base stuff, quickly get into the projects. Now get into the projects, learn, implement. That should be your strategy, guys. Number six, not afraid to change. You wouldn't believe people who get into software development. You know, our industry changes, what we do changes. You can be on one platform, look at Windows 10, 11. You have technology professors out there who love Windows XP, Windows 98. They didn't wanna change. They see how things are progressing. You know, you get to Windows 7, you get to Windows 10, Windows 11. You know, things change, guys. If you don't like change as a developer, you're going to struggle. So you're gonna have to have some change, guys. We gotta do that. If you don't have change, you're gonna struggle. Or you don't, if you are afraid of change, you will struggle. And number seven, you believe in the importance of the impact of technology. You believe that technology can move the needle, move things forward, can solve problems. If you don't believe technology can do that, software development may not be for you because at the end of the day, guys, you got your people, your resources, all this other stuff that makes a company move forward. And for the most part, you know, you get the smart people, you know, who are gonna really move the company forward. But you wanna give that smart person tools, process, procedures, infrastructure of technology that's gonna allow them to flourish. That's where the technology, the software development, those processes and procedure automations, that AI. That's the kind of stuff that really moves things forward. If you believe in that and you want to learn the tools that need to be built to help the companies move forward, you're gonna be in a really good spot, guys. So, like, subscribe to the content. If you have any questions, feedback, comment below. Tell me your situation. If you haven't already, I got a link to my Seven Step Guide. I'll put this on the screen here, guys. Go ahead and check that out. Go ahead and check out my premium courses. Go buy some of that. And I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.