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What's one bit of professional advice you'd give yourself from one year ago?

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What's one bit of professional advice you'd give yourself from one year ago?

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Valeria Cerpa Salas

Organize yourself with a schedule, focus on one activity at a time and take time to rest, distract yourself and get a good night's sleep.

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Kasope Johnson

Enjoy failing!

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Christopher Aaron

Whenever you start to doubt yourself, remember those who believe in you.

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Celestina

Keep practicing,it can only get better....and put your works out more

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Sheldon Stevens

Find what interests you and stick to it. My bootcamp was focused on full stack development and I had the HARDEST time shaking the mindset of " I have to know 30 languages really well, study them, practice them, understand them and implement them simultaneously.. HOW does anyone do that?!" Well short answer is they don't, not one person can know everything about any language. From the bottom to the top everyone has to look things up, remind themselves of certain things, ask questions and fail on a consistent basis. That's the only way in my opinion to truly be a successful developer :) I am now solely focused on front end development with minimal knowledge of backend and I couldn't be happier. Instead of being good at 30 things strive to be GREAT at maybe 4 or 5.

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Nancy Karnes

don't give up!!

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Hussain Codes

Network, network, network!
And don't underestimate the power of small consistent habits!

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M.Fahad Imtiaz

Try to focus on one thing at a time.

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M.Fahad Imtiaz

To have started learning Web Development at freecodecamp

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Aadarsh Kannan

The best way to learn is to do it!

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Jeffrey β€˜King the Asix’ Willis

Stop trying to follow the trends and maintain focused.

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ematkinsongit

Show up every single day to code, even if it's only for ten or twenty minutes. Any progress is better than nothing. Give yourself the gift of commitment and perseverance.

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Lol-Ola

Pick a goal, take baby steps and be consistent. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Oops that's more than one.

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Utkarsh Maurya

Stop wasting your time watching hours and hours of video lectures to understand a topic that you can just learn by reading docs in an hour.

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Pablo Hernandez

Don't pure all the coffee @ once...
Take it slow and work on Excellence not Perfection...