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I Struggled Without a Mentor, These Tips Helped Me Learn to Code

Nabil Tharwat on May 09, 2021

Learning to code is not a straight path, these tips helped me get better at it. Hopefully by the end of this article you'd have enough of a foundat...
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Vincent Ha Vinh • Edited

In the part ”Start interacting with community” I would add ”Answer and write questions on StackOverflow” !

It s a good starting point to follow tags of technos you’re working with and check from time to time unanswered questions. For some not widespread technos, you can help new people lost just with the knowledge you currently got while working (so no homework !). And it is a first step in communicating with tech communities.

Answering questions improves your faculty to explain and communicate your knowledge.
Writing questions improves your faculty to seek help in a professional way or dig further in a subject that interests you, and get guidance from peers.

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Nabil Tharwat

That's a very solid point! Contributing to Stackoverflow will allow new developers a great deal of experience, even if their answers are downvoted or their comments disliked. It's a beautiful learning experience as well. I wish a "Pin this comment" button existed on DEV.

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Mark Zaky

Can't agree more, the best self help article out there for Developers ?!

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Nabil Tharwat

Thanks for your kind comment. It makes me happy knowing I helped someone! 👀

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Nino

Thanks Nabil , very helpful <3

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Nabil Tharwat

You're welcome! 😅

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Kristiqn Tachev • Edited

Cheers ! Very well written and correct :)

Check this out if want maybe it will help you to expand knowledge :)
github.com/Stradivario

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Nabil Tharwat

Thanks!

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Nabil Tharwat

Thanks! Your comment really means a lot. 😅

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mina bessada

Can't agree more, i already learned that by the hard way