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How do you self-teach yourself more complex software dev skills> (beehaw.org)
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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!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Keep practicing.

Read other people's code, for example open source project. Contributing to open source can be good practice also.

Find a mentor.

Pick a team at work that has the skills and culture+capacity to mentor you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Open source contribution can be really great. I started contributing to a Python project that I have used extensively and it 100% improved my coding. It also can allow for you to interact with more experienced devs (depending on the project) and allows for you to get feedback.