Posted by Lyanne Alfaro, DevRel Program Supervisor, Google Developer Studio

This month, we spoke with a number of Google Developer Consultants to study extra about their path.

Eslam Medhat Fathy

Giza, Egypt

Google Developer Professional, Firebase

Technical and Design Mentor at Google for Startups Accelerator Program

Google Developer Group Organizer

Senior Flutter Developer at Sarmad

What Google instruments have you ever used to construct?

I’ve used many instruments like Firebase, Flutter, Android, Kotlin, Dart, Assistant, and Bard, after all.

Which device has been your favourite to make use of? Why?

My favourite device is Firebase, due to how simple it’s to arrange and use. It additionally gives a serverless structure, easy-to-use providers, real-time synchronization, and cross-platform assist, amongst different options. These advantages will help you construct strong and scalable purposes shortly and simply.

Inform us about one thing you’ve got constructed prior to now utilizing Google instruments.

I’ve greater than 10 apps within the retailer created in Android native with Kotlin, Flutter and Dart. A couple of examples are Rehlatech and AzkarApp.

What is going to you create with Google Bard?

I exploit Bard every single day for producing, debugging, explaining, studying code, and extra.

What recommendation would you give somebody beginning of their developer journey?

I counsel everybody about to begin their developer journey to:

Begin with the fundamentals: It is essential to have a strong basis in programming fundamentals. Study the fundamentals of a programming language, corresponding to syntax, information varieties, management buildings, and capabilities.

Follow coding: Follow makes excellent. The extra you apply coding, the higher you may turn into. Begin with small tasks and steadily transfer on to extra complicated tasks.

Study from others: Be a part of on-line communities, attend meetups, and take part in boards. Studying from others will help you enhance your abilities.

Learn the documentation: Documentation is your pal. Learn the documentation of the programming language or instruments you are utilizing. It might make it easier to perceive the way to use them correctly and remedy issues.

Be affected person: Studying to code takes time and endurance. Do not get discouraged in case you do not perceive one thing instantly. Maintain practising and asking questions.

Construct tasks: Constructing tasks is a good way to study new abilities and apply what you’ve got discovered. Begin small and steadily construct extra complicated tasks.

Keep up-to-date: Expertise is consistently evolving. Keep up-to-date on the most recent tendencies and updates within the programming world. Attend conferences, learn blogs, and observe consultants on social media.

Have enjoyable: Coding ought to be enjoyable. Do not take it too severely and benefit from the technique of studying and constructing new issues.

Carmen Ansio

Barcelona, Spain

Google Developer Professional, Firebase

Google Developer Professional, Internet Applied sciences

UX Engineer

What Google instruments have you ever used to construct?

I’ve used numerous Google instruments to construct tasks together with Angular, Dart, and Firebase.

Which device has been your favourite to make use of? Why?

My favourite device has been Chrome DevTools due to its versatile suite of debugging instruments and its community panel, which I typically use to optimize internet efficiency. DevTools is an important a part of my each day growth course of because it permits me to check, experiment, and debug code immediately within the browser.

What is going to you create with Google Bard?

With Google Bard, I plan to develop a Figma plugin for creating dynamic design prototypes. Leveraging the pure language processing and understanding capabilities of Google Bard, the plugin will enable designers to shortly convert textual descriptions into visible design components. This will considerably streamline the design course of, bridging the hole between ideation and visible illustration, whereas enabling non-designers to contribute successfully to the design course of.

What recommendation would you give somebody beginning of their developer journey?

For these starting their developer journey, my recommendation can be: At all times keep curious and by no means cease studying. Expertise evolves shortly, and it is essential to be adaptable. Additionally, by no means undervalue the significance of fine UI/UX design. It isn’t solely about writing code, but in addition about creating an incredible person expertise.

Stéphanie Walter

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Google Developer Professional, Internet Applied sciences

Girls Techmakers

UX Researcher & Designer

What Google instruments have you ever used to construct?

The primary instruments I exploit are the Chrome examine device and Lighthouse. I’m utilizing Materials UI loads and the M3 design package for Figma is a good time saver.

Which device has been your favourite to make use of? Why?

Efficiency is essential the place I work, so Lighthouse is certainly in my favourite checklist. The operate to get a fast report, which additionally exhibits major accessibility points, may be very good. In fact it received’t present all accessibility points, however it’s a superb place to begin enhancing a web site.

Please share with us about one thing you’ve constructed prior to now utilizing Google instruments.

Each Lighthouse and the Chrome examine device are lifesavers when constructing web sites like my weblog. There’s nonetheless enchancment to be made on some pages on efficiency, however it’s getting there.

What is going to you create with Google Bard?

To be trustworthy, it solely has been lately made accessible for my nation, so I haven’t had time to actually play with it. For now, I exploit AI chatbots as glorified assistants. English isn’t my native language, so asking such instruments to assist translate some issues and enhance grammar in some sentences may be very useful. I would use it to assist me with sharing information: to enhance my articles, convention slides, and coaching materials.

What recommendation would you give somebody beginning of their developer journey?

Begin with a venture you’re enthusiastic about, one thing that may make it easier to, or one thing you would like existed. It doesn’t should be excellent. It additionally doesn’t should be one thing that can deliver cash. And bear in mind, you additionally don’t have to complete it. It’s good in case you can share it with friends to get suggestions however you may also share unfinished tasks. It’s all about studying whereas engaged on one thing that you simply like.However bear in mind to additionally step away from the pc. Creating shouldn’t be your entire life – in any other case, you’ll burn out actually quick.