So many people think that they can’t become a self-taught full-stack developer because it’s too difficult and time-consuming, yet the reality is completely different from these assumptions.
According to a 2017 survey, over 90% of the developers consider themselves, if not fully, then partially self-taught. This means that there are people that are self-taught full-stack developers and have sold themselves as such, got tech jobs, and launched their careers.
It might seem intimidating to become a self-taught full-stack developer, yet it's not a goal that's impossible to achieve.
A full-stack developer is someone skilled in coding both the front and back-end parts of a web application. To learn full-stack programming languages 5 months is sufficient enough. However, for you to become a professional developer you need more hands-on experience.
The key to becoming a self-taught developer is in the following steps: Learn necessary programming languages. Any full-stack developer should know these technologies; HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and backend technologies. Any course you take, whether online or otherwise, will teach you backend technology — PHP, SQL, Python, and Java. Learning one of these should suffice yet it is better to gain proficiency in it.
To understand complex concepts and become a self-taught full-stack developer, it's essential to first be sure about all the fundamentals. You need to fic parts of an application together and make it whole again. Yet for you to accomplish that, you have to understand how each part works and how it connects.
As you will gradually move forward in your journey to becoming a self-taught full-stack developer you'll realize that there is so much to learn that there is time to master them. The reason why most programmers fail in their pursuit is that they try to learn too many things at the dam time. These efforts are in vain. You should master one and learn the rest because understanding how to work with them is enough.
Even the best-skilled developer need should be willing enough to learn new things because technology is always evolving. No one knows everything so it's best to keep trying towards gaining more knowledge and what's the best way to do that? Taking an online or virtual course.
This is the most crucial part if you want to become a self-taught full-stack developer. Because theoretically everything can be learned from the internet in one way or the other yet the main part is how you use that knowledge practically in an application. Working with a tea is ideal to gain exposure as a beginner, though an individual can also develop an application alone. The goal is to gain hands-on exposure to the technology tool kit of a developer.
