As an indie dev, you don't have to work 9 to 5, killing your eyes, killing your back, killing your social life.
Instead, you can work from home and develop games on your own, by working 12 hours workday, killing your eyes, killing your back, killing your social life and killing your savings in the hope of being in the minority of indie game developers that make enough money to live of it.
Making your own games is not the comfy position of the two when compared to working in a large company.

I can settle for just not being poor.

In my 10 years of software engineer/computer programming experience, I haven't seen any distinction between Software Engineer/Computer Programmer

Frontend usually involves more than just HTML and CSS, nowadays its mainly JS and all of its many, beautiful frameworks, followed by a lot of testing

Thanks so much for all of the comments guys! It definitely doesn't feel great to get something wrong but I always prefer being corrected on my mistakes than ignoring them. You guys definitely helped me gain a better understanding of things so I thank you for that!

My first programming job as a self taught is 68k with potential for 10% bonus. I'm hoping I can learn true software engineering and cruise on up past 100k in the next couple years. Honestly it's way more satisfying than I thought it would be.

It’s easy to see why you’re blowing up. Clear communication, and concise. Info coming at a speed that is time efficient and easy to understand. Few people have that balance of abilities.

I'm studying both art history and computer science. Art history skills like writing and visual analysis can be pretty transferable! Also it may be of interest that larger museums need a lot of computer scientists now for websites, databases, apps, etc. The fields intersect more than people think :)

When I was at University, I can honestly say if it were not for the internet and youtube, i would have failed 70% of my classes.

A few notes...
4:19 "Software engineers" and computer programmers" almost never work together. They generally are employed by different types of companies... tech companies have software engineers that essentially only work with other software engineers (in terms of other programmers). Something like a manufacturing plant or hardware specialized company might hire "computer programmers," who might do a very similar job to software engineering, they just don't build the company's core product so they don't get the fancy title.
6:08 the buttons working is the frontend guy or gal's job. Whatever backend api endpoint or form handler your button's ajax request hits is the backend person's job. Also, frontend is not just html/css, it is safe to say that for a real full-time frontend position, most of your life is spent writing javascript.
7:50 If you think the life of an indie developer requires less than 9-5, you are mistaken. It may be less taxing if you're the kind of person that loves owning a thing and wearing many different hats to build the thing, but you will almost definitely be doing more work as an indie game dev, even on a small team, than just about any regular old 9-5 web developer. Sounds cool though!

Good luck landing a position! Seems like you have the aptitude and curiosity to be successful in this field. Subbing to see how things go for you and what path you end up pursuing :)

There is zero difference between Software Engineer snd Computer Programmer. "Engineer" sounds better even though we don't drive trains or have real engineering certifications.

The "concept of the code" is called architecture. "Architect' is sometimes a title / role.

I'm a game dev myself :) +1 to other folks' point that indie dev is NOT the easier road.

Good luck in your journey!

God job on the video! I'm not a software developer or programmer. I'm working towards security related fields. But I really enjoy watching your videos and love the way you present! Keep going 😊

I’m a programmer or software engineer based on the resume requirements. I’m currently a programmer Analyst on paper but I’m a software engineer when I work . my job doesn’t want to pay me a software engineer salary but I love working here so I took the job.

a programmer basically handles the math/computer science side of of a series of procedures or what you call algorithm (and data structures).  He tests how long the code takes to run by considering the number of times you iterate on data structures.  He checks if the data structure are the optimal one so that you won't repeat the process unnecessarily.  That's time complexity.  And you also need to consider the memory it requires, that's space complexity.  

on the other hand a software engineer, is more concerned how you develop a software from end to end correctly, wherein the correctness matters not just putting things together.  And at the same time how you can come up with high quality product.  Software engineer zeroes in edge cases, discusses trade offs to solve the problem at optimal cost.  He also find ways to work around things, to see if it is safe to hack around certain parts of the code.  

in the traditional sense, they are done by just one person.  Only the rich companies afford to split them, that's why experience wise it is better to go to smaller companies because you can wear many hats.

I don't think I've ever heard of a distinction like the one you describe between software engineer and computer programmer. I've only been in the industry for 5 years so maybe it's more of a historical term, dunno. Typically the people who are responsible for overarching systems decisions are called software architects, and it's a very senior role that you get promoted to by working as a programmer for a long time instead of becoming a manager. You can't really start as an architect. The rest of us software engineers, programmers, devs, whatever are responsible for implementation details, but it still involves a significant amount of design work. As a software engineer you tend to have a lot of say in the design of the applications you work on mostly because the architect is busy with other stuff and usually doesn't have time to talk about the best class level implementation of some business logic or other.

There's also a bit more nuance with backend devs. The database devs work in languages like SQL and work on databases specifically. The rest of the backend devs work on APIs that either talk to the front end or talk to each other. These two groups don't usually have overlapping skills and they're basically two different fields.

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Great explanation of those key career pathways! Just one slight correction. You mentioned JavaScript was considered a backend language. It's actually more commonly associated though with frontend development, but can be used as a backend language if you use the NodeJS runtime to run JS code on a server (and not through the browser). Other than that, everything else seemed spot on 👌 Keen to see where you go with this channel!

Going off the thumbnail, I'd recommend that anyone looking for good pay/benefits and work life balance in their first job to check out business development. I got my first job with an 80k starting salary and 10% bonus after graduating from CompSci last year in an investment firm where I design and build databases, data pipelines, and reports within SQL. Ironically I had zero experience with SQL prior to getting the interview but I learned it over the course of a week before the second round. So far my experience has been great and it's a pretty chill environment than I had expected going into software development. I think the financial sector is great for becoming more financially literate and learning how to communicate with business users, so it's been a great first job so far

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