Advice for quitters

Tips for learning web development on your own

I mentor for an online dev bootcamp. I recently had a student drop out of the program. He was feeling frustrated by the curriculum, and thought maybe he could learn better on his own. Here’s my parting advice to him.

You have demonstrated that you are fully capable of learning web development and doing good work. If it helps, I wrote an article years ago to help self-guided learners, and it’s still pretty relevant. It’s called
So you’re convinced that learning web development might be cool but you literally have no idea what even. It’s targeted at people a little behind where you are, skill-wise, but there are ideas and pointers that will still be relevant.

I hope you don’t lose heart. I honestly believe you will be good at this.

Other than my years-old article, I’m not sure what to recommend. I feel like you’ve already received a pretty good map of the forest. Now keep pressing on. Some ideas:

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