How I learned to code (my entire coding journey) + some tips for the newbie developers

So it all started in September 2020 when I got in high-school

Our teacher introduced us to C++ and I wrote my first Hello World program

I was amazed by how what I wrote in the code editor was displayed on the console

When I got home that day I went on Google and I started learning more about C++ alone

A few months went by and we were at the end of 2019

I already knew some stuff in C++ because I went to a school contest

Just basic stuff like if, else, while, for loops. Things like that

At the end of 2019 I met with my uncle was is a senior web developer

He advised me to learn more about programming on my own

So the next week I started learning Python on my own from Codecamdey

During that week all I did was code, eat and sleep

At that time I realized that I fell in love with coding

Then after a few more months covid hit and suddenly realized that I have a lot of free time that I'm wasting

So what I did was to go on @freeCodeCamp and learn HTML and CSS

Why?

Because I realized that I want to build stuff that I can see and I couldn't do that with Python

So I taught myself HTML and CSS, built some projects with them, and one day...

I was on a local subreddit with developers when someone reached out to me and said that they want to hire me

That's when I got my first job as a developers

You can read more about that story here

So that's what I did for the next 3 months

I learned a little bit of JavaScript, Bootstrap and a lot of HTML and CSS

Then in September school started again and I left that job

At the time I decided to take some time off coding and focus on high-school

But after one month we went back home and I once again had too much free time

So I went back and revisit HTML and CSS

I decided to get this book to learn these 2 again and learn JavaScript the right way

P.S: if you want to learn web dev, use this

So that's what I did for the next months until October 22 when I joined Tech Twitter

I joined this community just to document my journey but I soon realized that I love creating content so I started doing that

And from there my entire journey is on my Twitter profile

Right now I'm building projects with JavaScript and I'll soon start learning React

So, as I promised here are some tips for the newbie developers out there

Stay consistent

Choose one resource and stick with that

Learn the fundamentals first

Build projects

The end