In the modern era, where the technology is so vast, it is not compulsory to attend the particular graduation programs for the student to master any technology.
If you have that passion for programming then there are various learning methods and resources available (online and offline both) that can help you to be a Self-Taught Programmer or Developer. You can use thes resources to master in any technology without any Syllabus or curriculum barrier. In the journey of a Self-Taught Developer or Programmer, there is lots of dedication and consistency required. However, being a self-taught developer doesn't mean to not attend any Degree or to not follow any mentor but it tends that you are not dependant on any particular person or platform to master the development skills.
Before moving further, let us take a look at several major benefits for being a self-taught Developer:-
- Self-Taught Developers are generally more proficient as they are not required to follow any particular curriculum to master the coding or development skills.
- Also, apart from the development, Self-taught Developers hold the knowledge of various other domains as well such as designing, deployment, etc.
- Self-Taught Developers have a vast portfolio as they build multiple projects, participates in various contests, etc. during the learning process.
1. Online Tutorials and Courses:-
Online learning is one of the best learning methods to become a self-taught developer. You can choose plenty of online resources such as Youtube videos, Blogs, online Tutorials, courses and programs etc. can enhance your skills. You can watch our video on Youtube and read our blogs, and opt for any other, its depends on your choice and interests.
2. Read books and Blogs:-
Regardless of any online courses and tutorials, books are still the best source of knowledge for any domain. It is strongly recommended to the self-taught learners to read books and gain expertise about any particular domain. Despite the detailed and inclusive introduction to the programming world, reading the relevant and quality books will offers the various crucial insights regarding the programming and software development that you may not find anywhere else.
3. Attend Coding Bootcamp:-
As mentioned above, the self-taught learning process doesn't constrain you to not attend any training programs etc. And with the same concern, you can consider attending coding Bootcamp for your Self-taught Developer journey. These coding BootCamps enhance your technical skills and make your proficient in coding to solve real-time problems and make a career as software developer as well as Data Scientist and any other domain.
4. Read other People's Code:-
It is one of the most useful, effective and widely used learning methods for self-taugh developers. You can explore various open-source code available over the web to grasp some crucial insights and grow your knowledge. However, reading the code means not only look the code but examine and run the code, review the code and other practices. You can use GITHUB and Stack-Over flow to read others code.
5. Participate in Programming Contests:-
After gaining the knowledge of any domain you can participate in various contests as well. Example- Like you learned Python Programming from @Codin India. You can test your skills from various websites like Hacker rank, Hacker Earth, Leet code and many more websites. This will hike your tech skills and make you industry ready programmer or Developer(whatever you want to be).
6. Build Projects:-
After getting sufficient knowledge of any domain, it's time to create some great projects for your resume because it doesn't matter how many books you have read and how many contests you have participated in if you have not created any project till. It is worthless and considered as you have not any skills. So, if you want to be industry ready Developer and Programmers it is mendatory for you to create projects.
7. Join Relevant Online Communities
Last but not least, you're required to join and connect online communities of the relevant domain. Through these communities, you can meet and collaborate with various minded developers across the world that can help you to grow as developers and master the development skills. It will help you to stay updated with the latest trends in the domain, provide code feedback, share projects ideas and various other aspects. There are various online communities for developers such as Developers forum, Github Community and many other.
If you follow this steps then you will become industry ready developer in no time.
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Regards:- Codin India
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