Being a Self Taught Programmer #1
Well, if you’re reading this, you probably know about what kind of struggle I’m talking about. Or maybe you’re just an empathetic person, which would be even more awesome, thank you for your attention to all of us :) Either way, you’re very welcome to my first post on Medium.
About two months ago, I was accepted to the Google Turkey’s Game and Application Academy and my -real- software journey has begun. Currently I’m taking Flutter courses on the academy, and sometimes -if I can make time- I also have a look at the Unity courses as well. I’ll talk about later about the Google Academy, because right now, we have a bigger problem: Being a Self Taught Programmer.
Please, first of all, give my regards to yourselves if you’re learning/learned about programming on your own. Because one thing I’m sure about this journey is, that thing is hard. Like h a r d hard. I remember, I was completely go insane when December 1st, 2021. -The time I was trying to setup all these IDEs and toolkits and right commands and other things I can’t remember right now.- Actually this is little bit of a secret but I know you can keep a secret so here it comes; I took thousands of pictures of myself with these things I counted when I completed the setup of them. Yup, I did that. Because that was a big challenge for me, I don’t “actually” have so much information about coding and that night, right after our first live session is over, I went dive in the website where we are going to get our courses like, yeah it’s gonna be easy to understand for me -I don’t know where this ego came from?- , and yes I’ll probably remember like many years about this setup process I’m talking about. :)
After 2 or 3 weeks I was trying to understand some kind of things about Dart, and I went like “ok, I’m gonna learn another programming language while I’m taking Dart courses.”
Yeah, as you can guess, that was a BIG MISTAKE. HUGE. *with Julia Robert’s voice*
Actually I’m exaggerating, because I don’t know you and obviously you don’t know me and we don’t know each other’s study style but I have to say that what I did or trying to do was exhausting. Like, I’m not giving you any advice because taking 2 or 3 programming language courses at the same time probably taught me something. At least, what’s not to do… 😜
No no I’m joking.
Although it is a difficult process, self-learners always deserve respect, in my opinion. While the difficulties they face with planning and how to get started can be very frustrating at first, after all there’s nothing that replaces the satisfaction that comes with the success you have achieved.
I would like to invite you to my self-learning process. Join me!
To be continued…
just a fresh starter over here, but you can buy me a coffee if you want ☕️
