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Hello hello hello and good morning Good morning everyone Thank you for joining me My name is Mahes Chan I'm founder of
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C# Corner I see a lot of people are joining us Everybody good morning It
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seems like few people have birthdays So happy birthday to everybody who's u born
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today who was born today Let's get this started Are you guys ready um
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let's uh I think we have about 1 hour Good morning everybody We have about 1 hour and I'm going to keep this session
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almost maybe half an hour then I really want to answer your questions because my
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goal is to make sure that today you get something out of this and uh since you
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are first year I believe most of you are first year and second year students
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so yeah it's going to be fun we'll keep it fun keep it simple keep it easy
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sounds Good Yeah Good I think Yeah Good morning everybody It's from room Looks like some
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of you guys are joining us from home Some may be joining us from college Yeah
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So just share where you're joining us from Um let me share my screen
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So Simon we're good to go All right Here we go So yeah today we
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are going to talk about career growth path for students college students which is you guys and lot is based on my
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personal experience and my goal as I said is to make sure you get something
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out of this we can also talk about startups in the end but first let's talk about some of the latest tech and trends
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going on in the industry so you guys ready for that Again my name is Mahes Chan I'm founder of Corner
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Uh if you guys are not familiar with C# Corner definitely check it out because this community is for you This community
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is for computer science students and we are adding lot more things for you guys
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My background is u I I'm founder of C# Corner I also run company called Mind
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Cracker It's a consulting company here in the US I've been living in the US for a while
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So what is C# corner i'm sure if you know some of you I think know did you
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guys attended the hackathon we did there i believe we did a hackathon C# corner
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and hack India did a hackathon there Um so we yeah this is the same community
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Um what it is it's a it's a learning and upskilling platform So if you're trying
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to learn new technologies you're trying to upskill yourself you're trying to
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learn new technologies you want to share your knowledge build your profile you want to network with other professionals
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C# corner is for you So check this out And why this talk today's
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talk is why it matters It's because there's lot of changes going on in technology field And if you are prepared
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for it this is actually a good time to be in tech So if you think about these tell like
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you know first question if I I was a student at your age you know I did my masters in from Jabalpur so if you guys
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know where jabalpur is I'm sure most of you know that um when I was graduating
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nobody was telling me what to do there was no advisor there was no I didn't attend any events conferences so I wish
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somebody was telling me what to learn what to do how to get career guidance what technologies are coming up So for
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you guys it's really good that you are now learning here
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So these are the seven technologies that are going to be in demand today and even
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in next at least at least five next five years
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If you are in one of these technologies you should be pretty good for next five years And the first one is most most
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important one and highest growth is one of the AI and machine learning If you
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are in AI and machine learning you are doing anything around that I think
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that's say one of the fastest growing career path is right now Cyber security is the second one Uh as a matter of fact
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there's there's so much demand for cyber security engineers we can't even fill them Then uh third thing is cloud and
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devops data scientist prompt engineering fullstack developer and blockchain web
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web3 developer So if you ask me a question what technology should I be
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learning so I am safe my career is good for next five to six years These are the
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technologies you should be paying attention to You want to make a screenshot for this you want to make a
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note or you want to write these down Let me rephrase this again
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If you have to ask a question what technology should I be learning so my
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job career is safer for next five years These are the seven technologies I would
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focus on Um obviously AI machine learning is hot right now It's pretty hot
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Prompt engineering is big deal As a matter of fact there it's hard to find prompt engineers right now In US there's
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lot of jobs opening available right now So I hope this gives you a little idea
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like where you guys want to go in next two years I think you are in first year
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and second year So you still have two more years to go
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So what is prompt engineering um and then today I will talk about two things
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prompt engineering and vibe coding What is prompt engineering when you
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use AI in brief and use AI to write code
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and I'm sure many of you are writing AI to write code agree I think most of you use chat GPT some of you use copilot
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some of you use probably cursor there's a vers zero and there's a lot of these
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IDE are out there they're all using AI to write code
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that make sense And you guys can type you know replies what what tool you're using to write
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code and learn code these days If you use Visual Studio or VS code the
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copilot is actually available within your IDE So you can even use it there
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So the these ID all they understand prompt the input you give the syn the
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command you give this to copilot or chat GPT when you when you ask chatgpt
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uh can you check my code for accuracy can you check bugs in my code can you
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write a an array in C++ when you say all that syntaxes or the the command or the
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sentence that's called prompt learning how to write effective prompts
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understanding how AI thinks and respond to these prompts
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and also learning the technology behind that is prompt engineered and this is
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going to be one of the most in demand technologies in next coming years
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There is another term called vive coding for the same thing Vive coding is
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coding using AI but using creativity using your skills using your imagination
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by using tools without writing code You're building these software systems
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you're building websites you're building apps That's called W coding And there are several W coding tools
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So these are the two things I will keep in mind if I am you start thinking about
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learning prompt engineering learn coding tools besides what you're already
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learning in your college keep in mind what you learn in college that's not going to give you the job
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How you get the job you get the job by doing extra work by doing extra by
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learning new things by learning more than anybody else out there in the market
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And the last thing is problem solving and creativity That is very important these days So in coming time when
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somebody's hiring you they want to they don't care about if you know C++ or C or
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Java It doesn't matter as long as you know one of those languages But if you can
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you are a good problem solver and you're creative and you can come up with the solutions
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as long as you know that you already have a an upper hand compared to other guys
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So start thinking think more try to become the problem solver rather than
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just a code monkey because the typing code the the era of typing code is
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almost gone
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So keep those comments coming guys In the end I'm going to take all your questions first I will quickly run
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through I will quickly run through my slides but my goal is again to answer
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your questions as many as possible I am here for you for whole one hour but I
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want to make sure that you understand where you want to go in year three year
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four How do you get internships where do you learn these vibe coding
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how how do you connect to get a job all those things we will talk today
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So few other things I will share and these things I'm sharing based on my
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experience Okay I have almost 30 years of experience You guys not even you were not even born since I've been you know
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I've been in this industry So I have learned a lot from from my experiences
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and besides learning my own by running Corneler community for 20ome years 25
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years we have learned a lot and these are the some of the tips and uh topics I
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really want to share with you Um and you can write down notes you can make notes of these This video will also be
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recorded and available on YouTube as well on C# corner channel So it will be there So how do you learn right there's
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learning There's multiple ways we learn First you guys go in a classroom Your
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teacher is teaching you giving you assignments You're learning that way That's great That's awesome Everybody
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learns that way That's great But guess what that's not enough these days Your learning should be more project based
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these days Your college may or may not be working with you on that But you have
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to figure out to start building these projects yourself When you build the projects it includes everything It
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includes your creativity imagination problem solving your team skills
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So the best way would be create a group of three four students you you know with
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who you work with and say yeah let's together create a project and I think a lot of you guys already do that So I
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don't have to explain you Same thing you know contribute to open source communities
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go join a GitHub Corner all these communities there and start sharing your code and your articles because by
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sharing there is it's kind of giving you exposure you're getting feedback you are
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now learning more and then third and fourth things are you want to also try to get some
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certifications because when you try to go for certification you automatically learn something
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definitely partnership and do partner in partner I mean participate in hackathons
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and some internship opportunities
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The next big thing these days is if you are going to look for a job it's not
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going to be resume You have to build your digital footprint And the digital footprint is from your
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college right now You are in first year you are in second year You should start
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building your digital footprint right now By the time you graduate you will already have a history of your work So
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these days when somebody's hiring one way is that you send them a resume
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that's great resume I can write anything So companies employees don't really trust rums They want to see more They
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want to see what you have done so far before even they call you for interview
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So if you send me an interview today first thing I'm going to do is my HR or somebody's going to do it They're going
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to search your name online and they will search your name on social media and
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they will look at what have you done what kind of work have you done So here are some of the ways you can
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start building your digital footprint You can go to GitHub open an account to start sharing your code start learning
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You can go to Corner you can start sharing your article blogs your code uh
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and these websites are slowly become your resume your paper resume where it
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says okay my name is this this is my experience this is what I've done that's useless these days these social accounts
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social footprints the digital footprint is becoming your resume now and that's
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what we are doing in C# corner our goal is to build their profile as your resume
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so when somebody looks at your profile maybe Simon can share the profile in C#
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porn or how it looks today When somebody looks at your profile they will exactly
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see who you are without even reading too much They will exactly see what kind of
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work have you done and they will see also proof that what kind of articles have you written what
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kind of code have you submitted what is the quality of the code they will see all that
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So look at this profile right so Simon is sharing here It's a C# corner profile But look at this profile On this profile
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I can see everything about this person since he has joined this website
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What kind of ranking they have what kind of reputation they have how many contributions they have done activity
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wise They you can see their points earned You can see their reward their expertise You can see their expertise
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all percentage wise And you can also see their badges in awards So you can go to C# corner today join there and say start
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learning React start learning Java stop learning start learning C++ C or
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database just go there and learn and then when you learn after that you will take a challenge you can take a
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certification and that challenge that badge will come to your profile
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and that's pretty cool So now in the future this profile will
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become your footprint This becomes your resume Employer would look at like oh
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this person already has three certification Oh it has three badges already there And what we are doing on
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this site is we are putting this certification on blockchain So employers can actually verify that on
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this day you actually did this certification So there's a proof on blockchain
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That's not it Guess what and I'll share more about this What we're doing in on C# corner is
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we are actually also rewarding you for this work you're doing learning and certification and I'll I'll share with
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you that let's go back to my screen So you have to build your digital footprint
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How do you do that you create profile on GitHub C# for you go to LinkedIn On LinkedIn make sure your profile your
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profile is professional You should have a good picture there Don't put just any any random old picture from your high
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school high school photo Okay that's important Plus on LinkedIn try to
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connect with the people who you really want to work with who you want to get
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advice from who you anything you think this person is somebody I really want to
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talk to try to connect with them A lot of time they may not reply you respond
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you right away It doesn't matter It's still try you You got to try that After that you need to start writing blogging
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sharing what you learn Sharing is very important And I'll tell you why When you
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read something when you read something and write code you will remember for a while But if you write an article and
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post it somewhere and then somebody replies and comments on that that becomes your work That's your
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authoritative work You wrote that thing and that's your footprint Beside these three things I think try to
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speak try to speak in webinars virtual conferences there's so several happening
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on C# corner we do all the time every week we have virtual conferences every week we have webinars and also every
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almost every month we have virtual conferences coming up and then network
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there's one thing I can tell you you guys it's very important that going
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meeting people in person is very important for building your professional network and that is probably the most
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underrated but most important thing you can do today rather than hanging out with your
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college friends try to take all your group to a place where you can learn something and network with real
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professionals for example if there's event happening somewhere in co-working space there's a blockchain event
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happening AI event happening in co-working space and it's free or whatever you can afford to Hey go there
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just hang out with people who are speakers there who are learning there who are building there That's what make
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you more valuable than studying from the books or online
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In the end of the day you want to become a leader That's what companies are looking for is
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leaders and leaders are always in demand
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Let those questions keep coming guys If you have any kind of questions make sure you keep posting those questions because
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after this talk I'm going to start taking those questions Um but I want to make sure that I cover a lot of these
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topics and then answer most of your questions So let's talk about employers
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today When employers look for what are they looking for
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you will be surprised that they're not looking for how fast code you can write They're looking first thing they look
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for is problem solving skills Coding is great too because but coding slowly they know AI is going to write a lot of code
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You will still need to write code and because you need to understand what you're writing but your biggest skill is
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the problem solving Then they will look for any real world projects or contributions you have
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online I just talked to you about GitHub and C# corner Have you contributed
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anything is anything there so they can check your work and then how's your communication skills
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and do you have a learning attitude learning attitude is very important because every day there's new technology
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coming out every day software developers like myself I'm still learning I'm you
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know I'm almost like a retirement age but I'm still learning
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and then what kind of internships and contributions you have done so That's all employers look for Um keep that in
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mind So point is that just don't just go to school stay in class and leave and be
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done and thinking like oh I'm doing this study here I'm getting this bachelor or
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master's degree and as soon as I graduate job is waiting for me That's not going to happen You have to start
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working now start building your portfolio start getting your name out there So by the time you're out there
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you already have a job for you So again let's let's quickly recap this
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If your career growth road map you have to think about what would be the road map look like These are the sum of the
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points They're not in any particular order Besides your learning what you're already doing
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at college you know whatever you're learning that's fine but these are the some of things you want to add to that
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You want to have a strong network How do you build a strong network you go meet
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people You go on a LinkedIn Start connecting with people U go to Corner
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ask a question post answers write contribute All those things matter
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Continuous learning mindset Your learning has to be everyday job Even it's a half an hour 15 minutes doesn't
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matter Go to a website or an app where you learn new things every day Again I
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keep talking about C# corner but that's what we're doing on C# Corner is we're publishing latest news and content about
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tech every day So try to make it a habit whenever you have time Either it's in
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the car you're sitting in a bus you are in a taking a break in the lunch break you are in a doesn't matter where you
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are If you take a 15 20 30 minutes every day learn new things That's what going
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to make you the the most in demand programmer or developer because you know
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a lot of things what's going on Then again get certifications participate in challenges participate in hackathons
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attend webinars and conferences and speak Speaking is something that is very
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underrated So if you get a chance ever you get a chance either speak on a in a
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group in a class or anywhere try to participate in those because that's also
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going to be one of the biggest skills It's already it already is when companies look for leaders when you know
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you're going to join a company you'll become a junior developer or you are becoming a dev you know cloud engineer
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junior junior role right when junior role to senior role senior role to role to architect architect to lead lead to
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PM PM to CTO CTO to CIO all those steps
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one of the skill is the leadership skill the speaking skill the communication skills not necessarily the coding skill
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So those things matter more than more than you would think because at this stage you may not be thinking that you
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may be thinking that I need to write code build my application but those other skills are very important
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So now I want to talk about few things for you guys and this will be you know exciting it should be exciting for you
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guys and just pay attention to that So we have something on C# corner there's something called sharp rewards If you
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guys participate in hack India you probably already know that but now we are opening up Corner portal for
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students to learn If you're learning you are actually going to earn more rewards and then new
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rewards you can then cash out You can spawn spend on your growth You can do
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whatever with it There's different things coming up So for example if you just start learning you took a you know
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just took a certification or you just start learning through a learn series or you just posted a question everything
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you do in this community you earn points Points can then convert into rewards
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These rewards now you can use on your professional growth
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You can attend a conference You can buy books You can buy you can buy a course
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You can buy a course on an AI and machine learning You can buy you can become a premium member So many things
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So check it out Go to C# corner and when you log in there's a page sharp rewards
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It will explain you how do you earn rewards and grow in your career And you may say why why are we launching these
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rewards what's the point where this come come from this came up from my personal experience
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and a lot of problems we see in IT industry What happens is when IT guys
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they become they get a good job they get good salary they stop learning new things So we are gifying this continuous
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learning if that makes sense
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I'm sure you guys have heard of bounties How many of you have heard of bounties so we just launched bounties on C#
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corner and bounties are basically you go and earn these things for free by doing
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certain things and I'll give you a perfect example There's a bounty right now we are running it's called AI for
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peace It's by defunding defunding is a a company that funds projects in AI and C#
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corner So there right now we're running this AI for peace Uh it's an idea All
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you have to do is submit an idea like it could be a project idea how AI can be
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used for peace in the world right there's war going on there's a lot of problems going on if you have an idea
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you can use chat GPT you can use AI to get the idea to write your idea just go
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there and submit your idea top 10 ideas will win $3,000 cash prize first first
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idea will win $1,000 second will 500 and then five more projects So total seven I
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I said 10 It's not 10 Total seven ideas will win $3,000 cash
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Check that out And participating in this gives you a little bit thinking as well like okay how can AI be used for peace
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right i don't know this you have to come up with some ideas So check it out Go to C# corner/boundies
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and then what else can you do on this community for students what C# corner what else can you do there as I said
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this community is for you guys it's we we are building this for you where students can learn you can go and
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download free ebooks there's a hack India hackathons which I think a lot of you already participated uh we have a
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student focused conferences weekly webinars there's a so we have partnered with companies they're hiring interns
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right job ready internship program there's so many things going on there's training we are launching we're
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launching a training on prompt engineering a IML machine learning fullstack developer web three developer
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all those things they are skills that are in demand and then we're also going to certify you and that certificate will
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go on your profile So when employees employers are looking for interns now we
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can pass those profiles to those companies if that makes sense
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Okay with that said I think I I am done with my talk This was good I think half an hour I took half an hour So let's
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look at some of your questions Again I'm here for 20 more minutes By the way I'm in Philadelphia US right now So it's
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like 1:00 a.m midnight So that's why I'm maybe a little sleepy
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but uh it's midnight It's 1 1:00 a.m here but I want to make sure I answer a bunch of you guys questions
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Okay Chili tones question is startup Do you think AI is lowering the barrier for
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students to launch startups or is it raising the competition with everyone
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having access to similar tools how do we make our ideas stand out that's a great question Amazing question
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If you have sharp rewards wallet I think we should give you 200 sharp tokens Yes
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So definitely AI is lowering the barrier Definitely now you can build your product at least the most MVPs to show
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and demo with literally one person can build it without without spending a lot
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of money because that used to be the major challenge and I don't think it's a bad thing to be honest I think it's a
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good thing because raising competition is always good that means more competition is better for higher quality
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products um sure there's going to be lot of similar ideas being built by because of
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the AI But end of the day as I said who's more creative who can be faster
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who can be ahead of everybody is going to win And it's like anything else when
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new technologies comes they're always like "Oh it's going to change That's fine." But guess what it opens up new
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doors So I wouldn't worry about the second part But yes agree And I think
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people who will embrace AI they will win the race So everybody should be learning
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AI and AI tools these days
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Do you think that eventually I will reduce creative side of development or enhance it like student like us so
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initially it will enhance because right now AI is still new It's learning but
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over the time I think AI will do lot of work which is like kind of repetit like
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already done For example in future you can just say "Hey build me a a banking
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system with blah blah blah." All you have to do is say that and AI will build
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everything including from database from UI front end mobile app all that will be
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done It actually is already doing but systems are not that sophisticated So
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it's coming So point I'm making is that the front end work the web work that
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will lot of lot of 80% of that will be done by AI in coming time and 20% will
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be done by you know developers but there's going to be more need for the
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data side for the backend side from the other AI tools creativity business logic
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so I don't think you know people always afraid like will AI take my job sure it will it will take your job if you don't
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learn new things because there's so many new things coming out There's web 3 is now here There's AI is here So many new
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technologies coming out Cloud will always be in demand for a while right there's a lot of things out there
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Krishna asked uh will companies value projects built using no code platform
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the same way they value traditional yes So that's a great question on GitHub
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profile Um even though you can build project using AI companies still want to know
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that you understand the basics you understand the fundamentals because what happens when AI writes bad code what
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happens when AI writes code in older version what happens if AI AI's code is
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not secure you still need to know that if I'm hiring somebody I want to make sure they understand the fundamentals
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They can review the code they don't have to necessarily type the code Okay But as
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a company if you are a good developer I I don't care if you write by using AI
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your hand I would rather write using AI because businesses when you think of
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businesses they only have one goal getting work done They don't care how
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Okay they don't care what language it is They don't care what platform it is They don't care who wrote it They want to get
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the work done faster If I'm a bank I need to launch a payment system I need to la banks are behind Businesses are
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always behind So they're all they care is who and how we can launch this fastest way possible So AI they don't
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care I I don't think they will care But for you guys for students they want to make sure that you know you understand
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So you still have to understand what code means what is it doing So yeah
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Wow a lot of questions guys Great questions Amazing question They're all great questions Will familiarity with
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co-pilot or prompt engineering be considered as a real skill yes it's already is right now If I'm hiring
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somebody I want to make sure they know co-pilot I want to make sure they know prompt engineer This is already a
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real skill that is in demand big time
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Is learning powerbi relevant yes So BI is always in demand right bi will always be in demand A lot of work now in BI is
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done by AI But because anything in BI also means data data also
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means you have to data cleaning data you know going back make sure the data is
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right how store what format it is that will always be in demand um if it's not
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powerbi it'll be some other tool doesn't matter BI will be in demand
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this is great question Harshita saying how do you personally stay updated with rapidly evolving field of AI and what
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strategies would you recommend for us to do the same so Harsha that's a great question um when even I was a student
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uh when I came to us first time you know I was working full-time job I was doing consulting
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uh but every day no matter what no matter I went to weekend no matter I
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went to bars to clubs whatever I did I made sure that every day almost I put
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one hours of learning new things and going to different websites following
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different people on accounts Twitter accounts you know reading those tech
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news tech portals I made sure that's became my habit and as a matter of fact
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in five six years it became my habit that the day I wouldn't do that learn and write not only I learn I also wrote
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about these things that's the reason I learn a lot because when I was just just reading sometimes you just read and then
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it skips and you forget about it what I used to do is I read something new and
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then I will write about it and I'll share on C# corner so that's how Sharp corner got a lot of articles in traffic
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Millions of users read my articles because I learned new things New thing just came out For example C-Ilot came
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out When Copilot came out I learned Copilot I wrote about on C# Corner I wrote a book on it and I published
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videos on it But now because I did all that I know it now I don't need to remember anything So yeah it's all about
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habit If you really want something in life if you want to become a buff just
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go to gym every day and will become a habit If you really want to be become rich just start hanging out with rich
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people and do the same thing You'll become rich The rules in lives are simple Whatever you want you'll get it
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But you have to 100% dedicate to that Doesn't matter what you want to be you
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will become that Okay Suraj asks if AI can now code write
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design and even think creatively what will be the left for students like us to matter so we remain value in the future
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So this is important question because lot of companies are not hiring interns
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especially young students This is very important for you guys As a matter of
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fact even in the US they're saying that most jobs AI is going to impact the
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junior developer roles and the students who are graduating now in next few years
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will have hard time getting in the industry So that you have the great question how do you stay still remain
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valuable you still remain valuable by upskilling yourself by learning these
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new skills So if a senior developer can use AI to write a software so you can do
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that too and you are cheaper right so as long as you are learning these new things new skills new tools
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new and you are competing you're building projects on GitHub and you are um attending conferences meeting people
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building network remember most jobs
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most jobs people get through relationships okay India it's less In US
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the results came out that 92% jobs people get through relationships means
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who you know and the way you know people is you go and meet them you go and tag them you ask questions you go interact
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with people because if you're coming and talking to me at a user group and I know you already and you ask me for a job
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I'll say yeah I know you let's yeah we'll try that So great question
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Um what does it mean to be an MVP of a company or a community and how can I
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work toward becoming MVP at C# corner as a student great question Sahil MVP means
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most valuable professional and bunch of companies like Microsoft have their
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Microsoft MVP C has C# corner MVPs So C#
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corner right now has three 3.1 million members Okay Out of 3.1
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million members many of them contribute every day every month They speak they write articles they share their code
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they help at the events they answer forum questions So anything you do in
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the community you earn points and more points you earn Every every 3 months
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every quarter we review the top members who are doing activity in the community You can be just helping running a
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chapter You can be just uh um helping do some you know getting some people
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joining C# corners this program for example this we are doing right now So
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all these activities you do you earn these points and then you become MVP Once you become
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MEP you have lot of these um these features and perks unlocked to you For
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example talking to me for example getting advice coming to the conferences and other perks So that hopefully that
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answer your question on Corner There's also an article how to become a
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C# corner MVP and I'm sure if you search in Google or chat GPT they will tell you
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as well Now thank you for asking
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Is it better to splice in one domain early on or should I explore multiple fields first definitely one domain
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Doesn't matter what it is Don't try to do too much in the beginning because right now you guys are very young So you
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have to master one field Doesn't matter what it is because if you master that you're really good at it you definitely
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beat the competition Don't try to do too many things right now
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These are great questions guys You are smart Really i I wasn't that smart when I was in college I didn't know what to
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ask Um let's keep going This is good
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As a student how do I build the right team for a startup most of my peers are
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still learning and unsure about commitment That's so you want to do a startup That's great Yeah we didn't have
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a chance to talk about startup actually That's my favorite topic I have done a lot of startups in my life Um probably
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but most of them failed So it's not something um yeah I mean the right thing
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in the beginning is really when you are a student and
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you have to look for a few things uh number one how much you love this
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project the idea the passion make sure the other founders or co-founders also
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have the same passion right not they're not just coming because you're their friend so you have to it's like a
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startup co-founder finding a startup co-founder is like getting married Okay it's no different that because once your
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company's built and you are the co-founder this is like almost forever until the company is there Like it's
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like having a baby getting married So what my suggestion is before you get
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married try to date try to work and understand and learn more because you
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are their friends you already know them Um try to not rush it Uh see if their
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commitments is number one Number two try to find co-founders
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that have complimentary skills to you Means they can do something you cannot do and you can do something they cannot
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do um it's better to get for example if you are good in coding you want to find
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a co-founder who's probably good in selling and it's hard to find that but
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if you do that that's probably a a better match than having three co-founders and they're all coders
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because you are coder you can build a product you still need to sell it you still need to market it you still need
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to have finance somebody from finance so a more more skills you have from on the
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co-founding side better it is for a startup
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How do you filter information using AI in the sea of information
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and this is unknown guy So you are unknown already You're already not giving me enough information How do I
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filter you um it's hard I mean it's hard but again
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AI is getting better It's really the prompt engineering we talked about That's what prompting is That's what you
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become a better at prompt engineering Once you understand how AI thinks how AI works and what is goes behind it then
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you will know how to ask question You know you can say oh create me a resume and then you can say create me a resume
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for a student who's in second year and who has you know Pascal C++ C#L S
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looking for internship and then you can go into more depth more details give it a context um I have written several
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articles on this topic on C# horner if you go to generative AI section there's a lot of articles on that I'm actually
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launching a prompt engineering course just for students uh in next week or two
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So stay tuned and maybe just uh um connect with the atul I think a lot of you guys are familiar with atl and atul
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is handling these training So we're launching a prompt engineering course also vibe coding course These are
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in-person training just for students like yourself
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We often hear terms like no code and vibe coding Are they the same or do they
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represent different techniques they're a little bit different No code is different No code is a simple
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straightforward tool that writes code for you with some you know commands and
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existing pre-existing logic and things like that So no coding is different but
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w coding is almost same as AI coding with more skills So w coding
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it's a term it's not really a science it really means that you have to have
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creativity you have to have fluidity you have to understand the again everything goes back to the context the prompt
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engineering more you learn more you adapt more you talk to think of w coding
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in in in in brief is understanding how to talk to AI as an assistant of yours
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And that skill is why coding It doesn't need really need doesn't mean that you need to know coding about it Hopefully
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that answers your question Gory
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lot of great questions guys This is good Um uh what was the biggest challenge for
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you faced while starting your tech journey and how did you overcome it that's a great question TCS So my I had
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a lot of challenges to be honest and first challenge was I didn't have a mentor or I didn't have any guide who
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told me what to do So I kind of navigate my own I came to US when um when I
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graduated from my masters I joined a small company in Noa and see I only
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worked there 6 months and they said go to US I came to US and then I just made a lot of mistakes because I didn't know
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anybody I didn't know any good come from village I didn't know English right so
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how do you overcome I overcame I think I just kept doing things which I believed in it I
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just didn't stop and um it just I took a risk I was not afraid there were few
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things with me is I was I'm never afraid of trying new things um so yeah I just
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try different things I failed many times and you know you have you fail all the time that's fine but it shouldn't stop
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you because and then other thing you you can do is which if I
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have to advise now if I have to give you advice and I go back myself if I'm growing in college now and I'm starting
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my career what I would do is I would find a good mentor I would also find a
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good good people around me and when I came to US I lived in an area where
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there's not too much tech So I would move to a place where there's a lot of tech where there's a lot of innovation
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happening like if anybody who goes to Silicon Valley when they're young they all end up becoming a building a big big
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companies at early stage So few tips I will give you all of you guys is it's
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very important to have a mentor Mentor should be somebody who has done something which
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you're looking for and they really have best interest of you to help you and
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they're not looking for anything in return Right that's probably mentors do Second thing is
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you you will become what your best five friends are That's that's the fact So if
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you're trying to do a startup hang out with friends They are doing startups If they are doing startups you'll end up
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doing startup Try to stay at a place where they're all hanging out
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And next thing I would say is go get go
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get it And when I'm saying go get it means think about this world right this
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world is full of everything right but it has limited resources When you think of a gold this world has limited gold When
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you think of money this world has limited money But people are getting it every day right people are making money
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every day Somebody's making it Whoever goes after it whoever is aggressive
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whoever puts everything say "I'm going to do everything to make money," they will go and make money It's that simple
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Even though it's simple it's really hard It could be hard but you cannot just say "This is hard for me." You have to say
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you know what no matter what comes to me I'm going to go do it And you'll end up getting it That's how it is It's a I
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don't have to explain you like if you want something and you really 100% want it and you can do anything for that
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chances are you will get you will get the success there
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How do you identify which technologies are worth mastering longterm versus those are just hype i think I just
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mentioned some of them and you can these days you can you can even you know that's where good
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AI is good at it You can just ask details right because some technologies are going to be here for long term
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because they're just starting AI is going to be here for long term Um hypes are fine too Sometimes you have to also
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jump on a hype right that's fine too It's nothing wrong But you still have to continue doing the work you're doing Um
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if you're a student and you're learning programming doesn't matter what language what framework comes you're learning a
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skill This skill is transferable The biggest skill is that you keep learning newer things Continue upgrading yourself
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If you're doing that you should not be worry about anything
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Okay guys let's we have we'll take you know looks like a lot of great question We'll take maybe five more minutes It's
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um little late How can a student who is not having much knowledge about web 3 can flourish in the field
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can describe in BA Okay So again
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the answer is just be there Be there in there If you really want to
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do web 3 you want to become master of web 3 That's what you should be thinking all
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the time It's simple You should be reading web three You when you are in a
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YouTube you shouldn't be on YouTube You should be on a YouTube searching web three You should be on a Twitter You
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should be looking for web 3 You should be in Instagram searching web 3 You should be going attending the events and
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webinars in web 3 If you start doing that web 3 will come to you Okay it's
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that simple You have to just be that thing So somebody said it right you know be the ball I don't know if you guys
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heard of the heard of this phrase It's called be the ball It's in basketball
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Be the ball means you are the ball right if you are the ball you're putting your 100% in there You know eventually you'll
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become successful So it's not hard It feels like sometimes hard because you
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don't know where to go You don't know who to ask And that's what the Corner community like we are here The there's
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lot of webinars like this happening every day If you find it there's a lot of companies doing these webinars All
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web3 companies have their free webinars everyone and they're actually promoting
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it They have all have learning things So all you have to do is find it and just
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do it and just start learning it But you have to put time in it right
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that's you have to do it You cannot just say um it's you know there's simple rules in life What do you want the most
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do you want the most movie you want to enjoy with friends or you want web three
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those are the two things And if you want a more web three than anything else you will get web three
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Okay let's take few more questions This is great guys You guys have amazing questions I can stay here all day and
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night like looks like we need full day for this The person who didn't know much about this field what is the first step
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to start his or her journey effectively which field are we talking about okay
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Um I think the key is u find out somebody who is in that field and who is
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very close to you For example if I don't know the field you're talking about let's say talk about let's say AI If you
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want to get in AI and you don't know anything about it first thing is you need to find out who is in AI who's
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really close to me who's going to AI in my class or in my school and try to just
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go along and just finding it sometimes feels like it's hard but it is but once
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you a lot of you guys 20 years later you will see that
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life is not that complex you sometimes in college we think that it's a lot of things oh I don't know this or what will
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happened in my life's future everything will be fine as long as you keep doing your job and you know just follow Gita
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right just keep doing your karma with full faith you cannot just cheat you
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cannot say oh I'm study I'm studying but then cheat if you do you have to do with
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full faith and you have to put your full energy in it and I think the results will come sometime they're delayed but
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uh eventually you will get success
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How in mechanical engineer student learn AI as a tool and how can I start carrying it so AI as a tool if you don't
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need to go into too much details it's for everybody to be honest as long as you know how to talk to it and that's
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prompt engineering it doesn't require it does not require a computer science degree or coding at all you have to have
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is good English right now I think in Hindi they're going to be coming in Hindi too soon but if you have a good
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English communication you have imagination you have the words you start you want to learn prompting I think you
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can start using these tools and start building some cool things using AI
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Okay great U this is um appreciate it That's great I'm uh I'm glad that you
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you're enjoying it I'm glad you're learning something
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if AI can uh code Yeah let's take a couple of more questions Simon and I think we'll be done
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How can a student who not have much knowledge about language and he want to be a software developers
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how can he start in short term king Um so you are not a computer science
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student Is that what you're saying and you want to get into coding Yeah that's I mean
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I don't know what your background is right if your background is something
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around math problem solving that you can you can get into coding become a software developer but I think if you
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are not into coding your degree is not in degree something else you have to work a lot harder right because you
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don't know the fundamentals uh you it's better for you to get into this vibe coding and prompt engineering
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and other skills because then you can use these tools to build something Um
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creativity becomes a big deal these days For example you you want you want to
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build amazing videos for a company and do that as a job or as a business or
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images you can just use these AI tools right so
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focus on a language or learning about prompt engineering which one is will be better option Um language you need to
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learn right prompt engineering is not it's doesn't need 8 months or 6 months
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Prompt engineering you can learn in just few days a week right you have to still learn language if you are a coder or
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programmer or a software engineer If you are in computer science building applications you have to have at least
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one language and you have to master at least one language syntaxes because once
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you know one language then every other language is easy Prompt engineering is something you do side by side This is
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not without you know prompt engineering when you do and AI writes code for you
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You still have to understand what AI is writing otherwise it could be a problem
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Is learning C available for free or does it require paid subscription resources no C is free C# is a open-source
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language like C++ You can go learn anywhere Corner has I have a book on C#
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Corner I think it's free Um yeah there's a lot of free resources learning Um you
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can learn from YouTube You can learn C# corner You can go Microsoft C# learn C#
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portal You can do all that All right let's take one more last question Simon and I think we will close
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it This is great though guys Amazing This is fun You guys have a lot of great questions
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Rdraab Sharma says "What are the key skills or experiences you believe are
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the most valuable for a recent graduate to focus on when starting career tech
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industry?" I think we talked about those those um in my this talk was all about
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those skills So if you go back and watch this talk that's what I was telling you different things you could do is um I
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think you have to watch the whole video this was all about those skills right we went through the whole step by step um
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but again technical side I think technical side is some AI fundamentals
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programming um tech industry is a big word right tech industry you could be starting as a
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software developer you started as a as a devops You could be starting as a as a
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you know cloud AI depends on what you're drawing you have to have skills related to that to start your tech industry
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number one career number two then you need to have these complimentary skills like problem solving communications
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um you know other skills like being a good team member yeah I think I I forgot
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to skip all mine now but this this video has all those three three four slides
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just talked about this All right guys This was fun Everybody appreciate it You guys are amazing A lot
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of great questions I think you guys will have a good future Just keep learning
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every day Try to make it a habit The only thing I'll say is every day try to
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put half an hour 15 minutes half an hour just learn something new Go on a website
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like C# Corner That's all we do If you go to C# Corner there's no other portal
1:02:06
is doing that You go there every day and all you will see is new articles videos
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on new skills and just learn about those things and just learn whichever you like
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Go deep into that then go into more depth that will give you what you really want With that said guys thank you
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everybody Um and uh good night Heat Heat N
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