What advice would you give to someone who is trying to teach themselves software development skills? I’m doing that right now, and I’m finding it easy to understand, yet difficult to implement in computer code. I want to move onto more advanced stuff, but I feel that I don’t have enough experience quite yet. What skills/courses would you recommend I take? How did you get better on your coding journey? Any tips to make the process go faster? Thanks in advance!
Lots of good advice already in this thread, but I’ll add: Try interesting professional practices in your personal projects. Try to build your code test driven development, write a contributing guide, keep a changelog, set up automated testing, set up static code analysis, generate a coverage report.
These habits certainly aren’t needed for your hobby coding, but they can teach you things about how your coding style compares to others (and be sure to add any you’ve done to your resume, of course!)