A Developers Sad Story

Introduction

everything all started like a pick of interest as i wondered how these apps and websites were being developed, it all seemed like magic and there was no how i could get a hold of learning how to write codes. The first developer i met Alex was typically astounding as he could literally develop websites and he ha done several jobs. This got me excited which was clearly short lived because i got to realize he was using wordpress and Jomla for his web development; and i was sure it wasn't what i needed. I then picked some online books and PDF and kick start the journey. At first they were looking all abstract as i didn't where to even start from. I dangled into some on the surface idea for a while and had to drop the idea of learning after a while of not getting ahold of what i needed.

Body

The little i learned made me look like a tech savvy as i knew how to talk tech and these gave a lot of folks and foes the impression that i was a developer. I had severally picked interest and started again but got discouraged because i needed to work to get food on the table. It was hell at that period cause i wanted to learn at the same time i was responsible for I and someone else. What broke the camels back was my laptop got bad because of my roommate in the halls of residence in school mal-handled the pc. I couldn't afford a PC for over a year cause my earnings wasn't sufficient to save to get a new pc.I attempted using my phone to learn but it was still hell as no one was available to guide me I then one way or the other managed to get at least a pc that was working fine. Immediately i started learning graphics design with it (Adobe illustrator, Adobe PhotoShop, and Adobe XD) these three i got deep into and i started getting small jobs on logo designs and flyers.

I then resumed learning programming and javascript was still abstract as i did not understand the concept of how javascript communicated with the DOM; I immediately stumbled into React as a friend asked me if i knew any thing about it. React was awesome it was straight forward i didn't need to talk to the DOM directly. I the started watching series of tutorial videos many wasn't making sense and most times i just rewrite what i learnt i realized i wasn't getting it fully; i then stumbled upon Django and it was still awesome as everything was straight forward. i got some jobs for clients and these projects worked well.

conclusion

I knew i was still lacking skills and video tutorials weren't working at all cause for three months again i was learning frameworks(Django, React). I then met a friend that changed my life forever he recommended some things i do and i added some twist also that might help some persons out there:

please you need to learn the programming language before you move to the framework
you need to read official documentations
if you can avoid tutorial videos especially project videos but you can use tutorial videos to learn a language or documentation
join active communities
do hackathons, leetcodes etc
preference books over videos
use github every time
start making noise even when you have learnt a bite of tech it will create awareness to your employers so that when you are ready a spacemight be available for you
make your little experience make a louder noise on twitter, linkedin, github, and others
know this i the beginning "tech is hard" but there persons that know it don't got two heads
use tutorial videos to learn project flows and you don't need to code along having this in mind that you are familiar with all or most of the tools the project will implement