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All Resources I Used To Teach Myself How To Code (From Day 1 Til I Got A Job)

Gus Pear 🍐 on December 09, 2022

If you are short on time and just want to get the resources, I posted all links at the end of the post It took me 7 exact months. I only missed ...
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Tracy Gilmore • Edited

Hi Gus,
I would like to suggest to your readers another link for web technologies.
The definitive Mozilla Developer Network (MDN).
All the best for your on-going learning journey.

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Gus Pear 🍐

Hey Gilmore! It's great to see you again

Thanks once more for taking the time to comment.
The MDN is nothing but the best source of info on anything JS.

Suggestion included!

I didn't include it initially because myself sometimes(as a begginer) struggled to understand it's dense and complete explanations.

Have a great week!

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aizenmarina

Hi! Congrats on landing your first job and thanks for this post.

I think you did an excellent pathway! I am still on JS FCC bootcamp (I started a few years ago HTML and CSS, and now I am full on JS.) I haven't figured out what to do with/work/create things with JS yet. And I feel lost from time to time (some days I ace it, some, most of them, not.)

I applaud your effort and persistency (I wish I had that!!) and please continue telling us about your journey, it makes me hopeful of a brighter future.

;)

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Gus Pear 🍐

Hi aizenmarina! thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.

I understand how you feel.. I felt exactly the same with a bunch of other things.
I also wasn't persistent at all in the beginning.. it took me a long time to understand that persistency and consistency are keys to achieving anything in life.

Teaching myself how to code and landing a job in a relative short time was the first "win" in my life that I attribute to consistency.

It's hard do keep doing something day after day for months without losing motivation.

I used the senfield method which in my case was the github green tiles (the photo on top of this post) to keep me going. I just didn't want to break the green sequence.

I talk more about my story here if you are interested => dev.to/gustavupp/how-i-learned-to-...

Go one day at a time. Focus on each day. Don't focus on the goal (getting the job or mastering JS) focus on opening your editor and coding for a few minutes every single day. I'll invariably get there.

It was great to hear from you! Best of luck with JS and please let me know if there is anything I can help you with.

I am also "trying" to be active on twitter twitter.com/gus_ppereira.

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Alex T

Thank you so much for your authentic post. I appreciate your post so much. resourceful and great roadmap sharing. It may be just a post with some words, I share mutual feelings on your coding journey from beginner to professional.

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Gus Pear 🍐

Thank you Alex for taking the time to leave a comment. Writing about it as I went down the learning path was one of the things I should've done, but did not. It wasn't easy, but it was definitely worth it.

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Angie Bowen

This was a really helpful look at the self taught path and showed me that I'm on the right track. I also love the github tracker image showing your timeline. It really drives home the work you did.

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Gus Pear 🍐

Thank you so much Angie for positively fueling me with your comment. I honestly hope that by sharing my journey I have somehow given you a little push towards your first role as a software developer. That github image was my accountability partner... My simple goal was not to break the green tile chain. All the best in your journey and come back to tell us when you land your first dev job.

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Nilan Saha

This is an awesome resource for anyone starting out. Great job on this

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Gus Pear 🍐

Thanks for taking the time to comment Nilan. I really appreciate it.

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mstnt-663

Cool

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Gus Pear 🍐

Thanks for leaving a comment mstnt-663!