I quit my job in April 2021, self-taught programming/web development & landed a Remote Full Stack job in November 2021 (based in Vancouver, Canada); all without spending a dime. Figured someone might find a factual time-history of my experience useful -_- Net amount of LeetCode time was 0 hours.
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Table of Contents
- Learning Progression / Tech Timeline / Resources
- Greatest Challenges & How I Overcame Them
- Major Takeaways / Key Learnings (If I were to start over)
Disclaimer
The timeline is an un-opinionated, fact for fact rundown of my experience; the remainder is obviously just my opinion based on my experiences.
Learning Progression / Tech Timeline / Resources
For this section, i’ll walk through my experience and then for each step, summarize it, and add my personal timeline for that learning progression. I had no notable prior experience with programming; so we’re starting fresh.
To begin, I had a conversation with three of my friends who were Software Engineers, asking for any resources they had to learn programming. One friend recommended I learn JavaScript from FreeCodeCamp.org, completing their JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures course.