I feel you, I've just had a job interview and I already work as a dev for 7 months now, I failed it miserably both on theory and live coding assessment and questioned myself whether I really learned anything at all during these months of work and study for even longer than that. On the same day I just realized I need to go back to basics.
I rushed many things and didn't pay enough attention to those basics.
Failing and feeling down gives you a good perspective since you can stop and look back to realize that you already know something. It's not like all this practice is going nowhere, it just takes time.
I learned programming for like a year before applying for a job, so be patient.
Right. I have been coding on and off for about 2 years but started learning consistently since January. And I totally agree with you about rushing to learn the basics. That was my problem and also jumping form one programming language to the next without real understanding the fundamentals. But now I finally figured out a better way for me to learn JavaScript and I actually learn better by building projects.
Wow, that's pretty much 100% my story, I've been learning like this for almost 2 years now, but I only consider what I've done in the last year a real learning, because I actually started building something. I had some ups and downs when I just stopped or change direction completely, it's good to know that there is someone who is on the same path, don't worry it will pay off!
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I feel you, I've just had a job interview and I already work as a dev for 7 months now, I failed it miserably both on theory and live coding assessment and questioned myself whether I really learned anything at all during these months of work and study for even longer than that. On the same day I just realized I need to go back to basics.
I rushed many things and didn't pay enough attention to those basics.
Failing and feeling down gives you a good perspective since you can stop and look back to realize that you already know something. It's not like all this practice is going nowhere, it just takes time.
I learned programming for like a year before applying for a job, so be patient.
Right. I have been coding on and off for about 2 years but started learning consistently since January. And I totally agree with you about rushing to learn the basics. That was my problem and also jumping form one programming language to the next without real understanding the fundamentals. But now I finally figured out a better way for me to learn JavaScript and I actually learn better by building projects.
Wow, that's pretty much 100% my story, I've been learning like this for almost 2 years now, but I only consider what I've done in the last year a real learning, because I actually started building something. I had some ups and downs when I just stopped or change direction completely, it's good to know that there is someone who is on the same path, don't worry it will pay off!