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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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[–] douglasg14b 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Practice practice practice, always challenge and improve on your foundational skills. Everything else gets easier. Write code and solve problems, struggle through it in whatever way works for you. There's not really a shortcut to getting more experience than to put in the work.

It's especially important to try and do things the "right way" as a learning/growth tool. It will take longer, and you'll rewrite your code multiple times, but the next time you encounter a similar problem you suddenly know exactly what to do and the constraints around the problem.

Do this often enough and you'll find yourself having a general idea of how to solve just about any problem you come across, and how to do it elegantly.