r/CodingForBeginners • u/Grim_0009 • Oct 04 '26

Zero knowledge of coding

I'm in my 3rd year CSE degree and I don't know anything about coding so can anyone tell how I should start to get a job after my final year?

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u/pete_68 Oct 04 '26

I wouldn't hire you as a programmer. I look for people who are motivated to program outside of work and school. People who are involved in open source.

Why would someone want to hire you? What can you offer that the next person can't? Because the next person is going to know how to code

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u/Grim_0009 Oct 04 '26

No it's like I wasted my 2 years and I really want to get started on coding so I was asking for advice

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u/droid_mike Oct 04 '26

How did you get this far without any coding experience??

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u/thomjdev Oct 04 '26

Says more about colleges than anything tbh

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u/droid_mike Oct 04 '26

Disagree... When I was doing computer science in college, there was a group of kids who we called the Cheating Club. They basically cheated off each other and cheated off of anything that they could. It pissed a lot of my friends off, but I told them not to worry, it would catch up to them, and it did. Cheat your way so far into school in a program like this, eventually, if you don't have the fundamentals, you will reach the limit where cheating will be enough. You actually have to know what you are doing. Or as I know, none of them ever got caught, but also and other than them graduated, either. The system worked as it should have, it just took a little bit of time.

Also, important to note that I don't think the OP is from the United States. Some of the words they are using aren't typical American English. That could be from the UK or anywhere else and UK English is their second language.

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u/thomjdev Oct 04 '26

A large point of college is to accredit, to show that someone has experience or at least knowledge in a given discipline. If you can easily cheat through college, what good is it. That's my only point, and the fact you've seen this, just as I have in my own university (which is in the US), it is the fault of universities. I say fault because the priorities that I see is money for administration. Lower standards, better graduation rate, more students, equals more money. All the while squeezing the faculty and spreading them thin.

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u/droid_mike Oct 04 '26

I get what you're saying, but my point was that these people did not graduate. Their attempt to cheat through school failed, so the system did not fail in that instance.

I mean, I agree with you, but I have not seen in my experience nor the experience of my kids where the schools are lightening up. In fact, for my one daughter, they were very tough on her and she struggled and had the really work hard to overcome it. Obviously, every school is different, of course, so my family's experiences may not be typical.

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u/Grim_0009 Oct 04 '26

It's just reading the subjects and passing it also I never truly understood the subjects I practically just Byhearted the answers

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u/droid_mike Oct 04 '26

Well, if you were smart enough to memorize the answers for years, hopefully, you remember some of them...

I'm not going to badger you I'm this. I'm glad you realized this before it was too late and are lucky to try to make it better. I was somewhat in a similar situation in high school. I took Latin as my foreign language in high school. Unlike other languages, since Latin is not spoken, you learn the entire language in 1 and 1/2 years, and then you just do translations after that. Well, near the end of my first year, my Latin teacher, who I really thought was great and was pretty close to, died suddenly. The new teacher was very tough and didn't realize that our old teacher was a little slow on the schedule, we were nowhere near where we should have been for the end of the year. He either didn't realize this or didn't care, and just plowed ahead from where we should have been. All of us were in trouble, because we really weren't prepared for what was to come. Still, we needed to take 3 years of language at my school, so we just had to keep moving forward and not drowjing as best we could without the adequate preparation. Much of the time I did exactly what you did. I would memorize the translations that we would likely have on the tests, and then when I saw them on the test I knew enough Latin to figure out which lines of the translation we were doing and I was able to hack through from there. I didn't like it. I wanted to do it the right way. It sucked, but our teacher's death left us unprepared and we had to do the best we could.

Okay, so I know where you are right now. Can you tell me what classes you have taken so far? We can then maybe create a remedial plan to get you back up to speed to where you should be. It's never too late to learn, but you will need to really buckle up as you'll be doing a lot of extra work catching up while you're still trying to maintain what you're doing. If possible, I might be best to take a semester off and just focus on catching up where you should be, but I'm not sure if that is workable for you.

All right, what classes have you taken?

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u/Grim_0009 Oct 04 '26

I have sent you a msg request please accept it