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Andre Vasconcelos

To my experience, I felt like I improved the most whenever I had to take on a more ambitious project that I had no idea how to accomplish at first.

Tutorials are great with teaching you very specific ways to do it, but I feel like they don't cut it whenever you're out to build something real.

So if I were you I'd try to think up of a website/web application to develop (could either be a clone of an existing one, or a concept you created yourself). I guarantee you'll come across problems that no tutorials prepared you for, and this is how you'll be earning yourself some experience (and a unique portfolio to go with!).

With all that being said, this is just my personal experience, so like the other comment, take it with a grain of salt and see if it benefits you.

Best of luck on your journey as a developer :)

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Adam

Thanks Andre, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve been playing with the idea of making a small project, guess it’s that time of the year then. :D