Thank you, that’s a good idea! Actually I got very lucky. I have been working for a small startup past months and soon my first real project’ll be launched. I’m terrified (and excited!)

Hey Mark! I Haven't found a mentor yet. So I've just been learning on my own lately. I'm very thankful for forums, books, podcasts, blogs and so on. I think an online mentor would help me work much faster, and I'd love to have one. Maybe destiny has one in store for me somewhere in the future : )

Thank you for your answer! Of course I'll stay open minded and not to limit myself too much. I have learned that programming and coding is a lifelong learning process, new technologies comes and goes. I have to improve my skills and learn new ones all the time if I really want to be a good programmer.

So Sharing and participating is the key, especially if I want to find someone in online. Thank you for your answer, I appreciate it!

I'm living in a small city so locally is very hard to find one if I don't already know a person. If I try to arrange a meetup for beginners or something, would other coders be interested, what do you think? At least I would draw attention and get more contacts maybe. I'm not just quite sure if I have time to do that right now. Thank you for your advices.

Thank you for your answer! Unfortunately I'm living in a very small city so here are no coding meetups or they are not open to everyone. Finding a mentor, I know that this is a challenge but also I knew it when I decided not to go to college.

I started learning programming from scratch three months ago so the only experience I have is what I have covered in the online programming classes I've taken. But I'm very dedicated and committed to this and I have big goals and high expectations of myself. I'm using every free hour I have to learn alongside my full-time job. I want to become a Full Stack Programmer, i.e. being proficient in using all parts together (iOS/Swift for the Front-End, alongside Django/postgreSQL/Ubuntu in the Backend).

Thanks for your answer. I'm actually looking for a Full Stack Mentor (iOS/Swift + Django/postgreSQL/Ubuntu), but unfortunately I do not personally know any such expert, and I don't know where to find one.

Thank you for your answer! I was actually chasing that higher-level answer so I can build my own method what I can use as a tool.

Thanks a lot! I’m trying to create my own step-by-step problem solving method and find out the best practises and the most efficient way to solve those little lovely bugs.