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Discussion on: How do I get experience when I have no experience?

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Rémy 🤖

Two things:

  1. Code
  2. Get a kick-ass mentor

Coding is to only way to get going, but having a mentor that inspires you and is also able to point at what you could improve is what is going to make you learn 10x faster.

To do code, a few ideas by progressive order of difficulty (I guess)

  • Go to Stack Overflow and solve people's issues if you can. This gets you to the real world faster. Maybe you can find a tag of something you like (let's say vuejs or django) and focus on those problems only, in order not to get lost
  • Fix bugs in libre/open-source projects
  • Implement features in libre projects
  • Start your own libre project

Good luck!