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Discussion on: What was your first year as developer/designer like? Got any advice?

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Clint Maruti • Edited

I am in my second year as a developer. Initially, I was stack in tutorial hell. I was flipping through different tutorials and when it came to developing a real app, I was stack. I forgot about what I learnt through all the tutorials I was going through. Frustrated and dissapointed, I kept thinking, may be this is not the right path for me. Later on, I decided to enroll into Andela's Bootcamp, that's where I found hope. Through the guidance and mentorship from the learning facilitators, I was able to focus on one niche. I built my first API, wrote the documentation using Swagger then hosted it on Heroku. What joy I felt. Later, I was recruited in as a fellow. If I had not taken that step in joining the bootcamp, I would probably have given up on my journey as a developer

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Gift Egwuenu

I totally understand this. I was also in your shoes until I decided to just stick to one technology and learn that extensively. No back and forth and that helped.