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10 Tips For New Self-Taught Developers In Learning To Code - Advice From A Fellow Self-Taught Developer

Ayu Adiati on March 16, 2021

Hello Fellow Codenewbies and Self-Taught Developers šŸ‘‹, As a self-taught developer, what are your challenges in learning? My biggest challenges as ...
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Matt C

All Very Good Advice. ;)
I am and have been and probably will go thru all those things too.
For me, there were several rough parts.

  1. During this past "covid" year it was and is hard to find a tribe to bounce ideas off. I went thru a deep funk when that happened on top of things.
  2. The roadmap was also a facet of not finding (for me) local people to tie into. Without a strong direction, it is/was easy to feel like I was spinning my wheels in the mud.

Thank you

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Ayu Adiati

Thank you for reading. MCCurcio :)
I agree that covid is one hard year. And cannot meeting people in person make things worse.
But you can still try to find communities online.
I see that you've bookmarked my post about finding a community.
Hopefully, it could help you to find your tribe! šŸ˜Š

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Chukwukagideon

Awesome article. I major issues is finding projects to work on.
Is it normal not to have any project idea in mind? Cause anytime I try thinking of a project I end up over thinking it

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Ayu Adiati

It's totally normal!
You can replicate the tutorial project that you created when you don't have something in mind. Then try to add some features to it.

Or, I don't know what you're learning, but if you learn HTML, CSS and Javascript, check out Frontend Mentor. They have plenty free project to do from scratch :)

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Chukwukagideon

Yeah I just recently found out about front end mentor. Thanks alot.

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Kelechi Precious Nwachukwu

Thanks for the tips.

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Ayu Adiati

You're welcome, @pluckyprecious !
And thank you for reading šŸ˜Š

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Andrew Baisden

Good article you really know what you are talking about. Thanks for sharing.

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Ayu Adiati

Thank you for reading, Andrew! šŸ˜Š

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miajackson1117

Today I played a love tester game, and me and my crush got 93%. How wonderful. Should I confess my love to him or not? Or should we turn on the green light and continue to wait?

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Kingsley Odibendi

Thanks a lot for this. A good read!
Having started my journey as a self taught, this resource would be helpful in my journey. Thanks again

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Ayu Adiati

Thank you for reading, Odibendi!
And enjoy the journey! šŸ˜„
Feel free to reach me out if you ever have any questions šŸ˜Š