I think the biggest mistake I made was diving into youtube videos first while skipping the tutorials in documentation! the tutorial is so well written skipping it really wasted a lot of my time! I recently blogged my experience with going through the entire tutorial and it's really fun!

I just starting blogging this year! I actually taken a technical writing class last year but I forgot most of it already so it's really cool I ran into your article. Recently I am on a journey of blogging my process of learning or relearning computer science stuff. Reading your article gave me confidence/roadmap to keep writing. Thank you so much!

That's pretty cool! MERN is not something I have heard of so maybe one day I'll work towards that

For someone who is looking to get into software jobs in the future, I have to say looking at all the experience required, even for junior dev, seems silly for me. In my current field, we love hiring new people because we can train them and make sure there's no bad habits or they can fit in the company better. Promoting from within is often more cost effective than to hire someone off the street as well. That being said, I am familiar with the adapt or die attitude, hopefully when my time comes I will be ready for employment, if not, trying to prove myself in different ways.

Hey hey! good job! raylib is something I want to move onto one day. When you say "if your foundation sucks, it's really hard to write good code on top of it", I really echoed with that. Recently I realized how much I am missing out by not reading documentations, now I am going back reading all the things I learned in school. Good luck!

Yuv Raj Singh I look forward to it! I'll make sure to follow!

I always heard linux is better for programmers. I messed with it a little and didn't go back. I do want to find the time and play with linux again

Haha, back in highschool I use to tutor econ and us history. I remember at that time I understood the subject so much better because of it

Huzaifa Vakil haha exactly. I like this platform, i was able to find post like this quite fast

I have to save this and come back to read this later. I think I learned about multi threading two semester ago and already starting to forget. Use it or lose it yeah? I like your example, very straight forward