What motivated you to dive fully in to dev?
I've been in the process of... I've been gaining motivation to... I've been slowly learning web development for the past year now.
My consistent pattern has been:
- Tinker around on our company's Wordpress site for a while and eventually become inspired to learn more,
- Sign into my idle Team Treehouse account and spend about a week watching 30 lessons a day,
- Become discouraged that I either am not learning as quickly as I'd like, or lose interest because I have now real life projects to practice my new knowledge on.
- Guiltily avoid my treehouse account for a good couple months.
Can anyone relate? I'm very interested in diving fully into web development, but what I've learned about myself is that I need real world projects in order to really take in skills and have them stick.
Can anyone recommend a place I could practice what I'm learning in a non-classroom type setting? It would nice if there was some website that offered "apprenticeships" for new developers who want to learn in a real life setting with someone to help guide them through the sea of API's and Stack-overflow posts.