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Top learning methods for software developers

One of the most difficult staff of being a Self- Taught Developers is being able to find resources for learning.

If you have an internet connection you can be able to get all the learning resources in the world, but sometimes it can be tiresome, so I have come up with top learning methods you can use a Self-Taught developer to teach yourself the coding skills from beginner to advance without any curriculum barrier. Meanwhile.

This journey of being a Self-Taught Developer requires a lot of dedication and consistency while following these learning methods.

  1. read books
  2. audio books and podcasts
  3. written tutorials and blogs
  4. Structured electronic courses
  5. reading other people’s code
  6. YouTube tutorials
  7. stand alone courses
  8. documentation
  9. build your own projects

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Barun Ghosh

Exactly 👍

Reading books are best method ( I feel )
written tutorials -> are important - learnt many things from Digital Ocean blog posts

structured electronic course -> definitely all video courses are not good but some are outstanding

then learner should head to Github or other repository websites

Documentation -> learning from documentation should be primary goal

and then building own project -> ultimate goal

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Eljay-Adobe

For me, books. First a tutorial book, then a reference book.

I like to learn a new programming language every year. (But in the last 4 years, I've rather fallen behind. Only partially learning Swift and Rust, because C++14 has consumed a lot of my time.)

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