Got a job after less than a year coding!

Hi Magnus,

keep going you're probably not that far away. It's hard when you self-teach because you have no idea how far away you are and what to measure yourself up against. It's going in to the unknown.

In terms of the learning process I would say as long as you want it badly then you'll make it happen. There hasn't been a day that's gone by in the past year or so I haven't thought/envisioned having a career in tech.

I would get home from work and spend my few hours of the night learning, or on days off do good 2-4 hour blocks.

In regards to resources I liked to mix it up depending on the course. Treehouse is great but sometimes you might want to try a course on another site to keep it fresh.

I also use Codecademy, Lynda, Codeschool & Tuts.

Out of those 4 above I use Codecademy a lot because it's nice to be able to do challenges and take action. Sometimes you get tired of watching loads of tutorials and just want to write code.

Codecademy is great for beginners, I enjoyed the Javascript lessons.

I spent my first 4/5 months at Lynda before Treehouse and I still recommend them, even though I moved to Treehouse.

I enjoyed Lynda's Wordpress tutorials.

http://www.lynda.com/WordPress-tutorials/WordPress-Essential-Training/154417-2.html

I haven't used Codeschool as much but registered because https://teamtreehouse.com/rileyhilliard used it.

I recommend checking out Riley's blog and story if you haven't, it inspired me a lot because he went down a similar path of teaching himself.

And if you want to learn Jquery then this a good course.

http://code.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-jquery

Other than that Treehouse had everything I needed.

Finally, I'd say try to do projects for people because you learn a lot from that. You can sometimes think you know it all watching tutorials but until you start applying the code you don't see the problems you can sometimes face.

When you've had problems and overcome them it gives you more confidence and things become much more natural and you can write code without thinking about it/researching.

Your time is coming.

Joe

Thanks Nathan!

Cheers Ben, you're doing a great job!

Hey man, congrats!

How did it go? I've just finished my 2nd full week.

Joe