Self Taught Programmer Pitfalls

if you cast your mind back to 2020 when the soul-crushing lockdowns were forced upon us you remember everyone and their mothers trying out new hobbies some being healthy rewarding or full of weird but there were many who use this as an opportunity to learn a valuable luciative skill with the goal of improving their career prospects one of them being me having recently transitioned into a Korean deck after him as two years of teaching myself the code and applying for positions the tech industry is one of the more popular sectors to switch to with over 50 percent of developers considering themselves as self-taught according to a 2023 survey report conducted by the state of tech hiring the excellent salary potential flexible working arrangements and opportunities for creativity make it easy to sell the stream that all your problems will go away once you make the transition to Tech and that is exactly what you see with the tech tube space where self-taught developers talk about how they easily got a roll in Tech within six months or whatever time frame that they used to get more clicks on their videos if you're an aspiring developer and you're watching these videos it makes it difficult to manage your expectations but I want to tell you that it's okay to take exam this is your own personal coding journey and depending on your circumstance you're going to have numerous obstacles to overcome or work with so here are three common pitfalls most self-taught developers deal with firstly and this one should come as no surprise it's flipping hard teaching yourself how to code programming languages are complex and learning them requires a substantial amount of time and consistency it's hard for most people especially those in full-time jobs to dedicate the time to learn how to code without that consistent practice you end up for getting certain Concepts which can halt your progress and despite what many people will say programming isn't always enjoyable it can get tedious and it takes way more than motivation to learn to code my tip for tackling this is to have a set routine where no matter what you will code for a certain amount of time each day regardless of how you feel life might get in the way but this is really important when you're starting even if it's just 20 minutes this is still progress and chances are those 20 minutes will turn into an hour once you've warmed up and caught the coding bug no pun intended despite how difficult it is to learn how to code it's never been easier to learn with the abundance of online resources available and the emergence of AI tools but while there are plenty of tutorials courses and documentations to learn from it's easy to get overwhelmed and this leads to trying a bunch of things rather than sticking to a structured plan just end up stopping and starting every time you see a shiny new udemy course and so and if you are coding along to a tutorial course you're doing yourself a disservice sure you cross the basics but when it comes to opening up your IDE you're more than likely won't have the slightest clue on how to start and this shouldn't come as a surprise you haven't practiced actually building projects on your own you've been handheld this entire time a key part of this is to develop the ability to break down problems through project-based learning in a nutshell learn the basics build projects and look up solutions to solve problems along the way so you've grinded out the courses and produced the nice portfolio of projects you're ready for an entry-level developer role but there's just one problem none of those things have provided you of any experience that proves to employees that you're a skilled developer unfortunately no amount of self-teaching will substitute working on complex large-scale projects and collaborating with other developers you gain these for actually working as a developer for a company companies can easily find an eager and experienced developer that's willing to work for next to nothing so standing out from the crowd is tough the only advice I can provide is to apply as soon as possible once you have a couple of projects that you're proud of which you've built on your own without following a tutorial I would suggest start applying from there whilst improving your technical skills you'll pick up on what to tweak on your CV and cover letter in order to improve your chances through the constant streams of rejection emails I hope this video sheds some light on how unrealistic it is to expect to go from never coding before to land in a developer role in a matter of months more importantly to be okay with that in my experience it took me almost two years to learn my current role and that was for a consistent effort and networking and that doesn't make me any less of a developer compared to someone who got their first role within six months all it simply means is that my journey to land in that first world took a little longer that's all foreign

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Keywords: self taught programmer, self taught programmer pitfalls, developer pitfalls, self taught, how to become a developer, how to become a programmer, programmer, developer, tech, computer science, javascript, python, java, developer roadmap, how long to become a developer, developer obstacles, should you learn to code

Id: LAhRGmS9D1Q

Length: 4min 24sec (264 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 05 2023