How I Became A Web Developer In 9 Months With No Bootcamp or Degree | Self Taught 

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Always love to see more self-taught people make it in tech!

I coded for 3 years determined to make a career out of it. I eventually went into iOS development. I was able to get an app on the App Store but unfortunately it didn’t do so hot. I got disillusioned and my day job kept me busy so I didn’t code for awhile. But recently I reevaluated my path in coding and decided to go back and learn web development. To anyone out there reading this I would say pursue your passion and never give up. Work hard and make it happen!

Nice job! I’m also a self-taught web developer. I started my first job back in June. Personally, I used a Gatsby template for my portfolio and changed it up a bit.

I'm a self taught programmer and I'm still learning. It's true. The best way to learnin through making your own project.

You're definitely right about blogging, even just writing it down, or just talking to someone about it. The knowledge really sinks in when you write about what you learn and you have to explain it to someone.

This was so cool to watch! Im close to finishing up a front end bootcamp soon, and I had no idea what to sort of expect/do afterwards. You're video here definitely gives me motive to keep pushing and working hard at it

Congratulations man. You put in the effort required and demonstrated your passion. Thank you for being such an inspiration. I wish you well in your future in IT. Cheers

My first programming language was C++. The professor I had elucidated the "complex" topics rather well, so I understand arrays, pointers, structs, enumerated lists, classes and objects. I shouldn't have any problem learning JavaScript. So, I think I'm going to dive right into it. And thanks for your inspirational story.

Congrats bro! I'm just beginning my journey. It's really nice to see succeeding! Great motivation!

Thank you for sharing! I’m a mental health social worker and looking to change fields. Always nice to know that not everyone catches on right off the bat and that make carrier changes can happen!

Hahaha. You know what? I was going to take my shower when I stumbled on your video. I am just here laughing and getting inspired. Love you man! I am fifty with four kids in the university. I decided to make a career change to tech and I have been digging html,css and JavaScript. . I bought a course on Udemy days ago and it is beautiful. The joy of taking up this challenge is beyond measure, knowing where you are going. I learned so much from you man. All the way from Lagos Nigeria. Keep your coming!!

I really like your take on the process and that you're not trying to sell anything! Thanks for sharing your path.

Got a new subscriber here! I'm starting Skillcrush courses in a month, but since watching this I'll definitely be checking out the odin project too, and my goal is to land my first tech job by this time next year. Excited to watch all your vids throughout your journey, and hope to achieve what you have as well! I'm in insurance now, transferred from bartending, so it's nice to see someone from outside the tech world succeed. Gives me hope this isn't a pipe dream and I'm on the right path. Thank you!

Mike, this so refreshing to know. Thanks a lot. I am motivated.

Another great and insightful video, thank you for continuing to share your journey with us. Looking forward to your future videos and reflections after you've been working at your first dev job a couple of months. I'm sure the growth will be exponential, and your thoughts and insights will be just as exponentially beneficial to all of your viewers. Cheers!

Thanks for sharing your experience. Congratulations on securing your first tech job. Very inspiring as I am on a similar journey. Wishing you much success.

Loved this post, thanks for sharing your journey big dog!

Congratulations n Good luck for ur new job 👍🏼

I just started Html and css a couple of months ago and im loving it i can't wait to see myself a year from now never give up because when you stop its hard to learn everything back over again

What a great video Michael and thank you for your service.

Way to go man! Great content!

watching this from a place of fear and confusion feels like i have direction once again. Thank you.

Thank you for this video. It's reassuring to hear other people's experiences. When I get to doubting myself and if I even have the capability to professionally do this stuff, hearing people just talk about it reminds me that my struggles and difficulties are very similar to those who are where I want to be. So if they still made it, then maybe I can too.

I don't think you understand how much this channel inspires me. I'm around the same age as you and I'm about to head into my final year of University. This channel, your approach to web development, your honesty and positivity is very inspirational. I wish you the best of luck with your job man and I hope to maybe be your "colleague" by the end of the year!

This was super awesome to listen to. Has given me a lot of hope when it comes to leaning how to code and reaching one of my goals. Im gonna check out the rest of your channel. Oh oh and you know I peep that Gurren Lagann poster back there. One of my favorite animes of all time!!

This is super inspiring. Thank you. Also on the journey.

Lol you have a great sense of humour. The digression was funny about not finishing the landing page for the carpet cleaning. That's totally me. I am learning now and am taking so many projects for friends. I need a real web development job. I am ready to take the leap.

You come across so nice and calm, my first time watching you and best believe I'll be watching everything you post

First! You are an inspiration to all self taught devs, thanks for sharing your story:)

front-end mentor is a great place to find ideas for projects to test and grow your knowlege

Awesome video. Thank you and congratulations !

Cool, I liked the advice on deviating from curriculum in favor of doing actual projects. I've also done this a few times and they all taught me more than any single resource. I'm not employed yet though because I feel I need to learn more, it sucks, what you did is an inspiration to me.

You are so motivating. I just got me the course, ty

What an amazing video! I’m currently taking Colt Steele’s web dev bootcamp through Udemy and was introduced to The Odin Project from a friend who’s a CS major in uni and I’m currently just going through the learning process. I’m still trying to improve in CSS and beginning to learn JavaScript and I have my first offer to design and build a website for someone. I actually have a meeting scheduled with them in a few days and I am so nervous and excited! Hearing your story is super encouraging because I don’t feel ready at all but I honestly think real world projects are the best way to learn!

Wow, thank you so much for sharing your experience. I have learnt a lot from this. Thanks

Thanks man! I’m on the struggle bus for deciding on the software engineering path to follow. Hearing others experiences, especially a fellow vet, helps.

Thank you so much! The part about blogging/ recording your progress really stuck to me. Given that it is your top recommendation I feel it'd be a great addition to your channel a video detailing exactly how you document your progress, how you plan your videos, which parts you choose to make a video on, what software you use, so we can follow a similar path of recording our own.

This is the best most informative video on this topic that I’ve seen and I’ve been watching them for two weeks while I’ve been working 11 hour days.

Thanks bro, I found this really motivating. I'm a 31 year old office worker who's a few weeks into a HTML and CSS course and I can't wait to build my own website. Getting a web development job would be a dream come true for me, keep up the great content. 🤙

Great insights Michael, Currently horning my skills to become a self-taught Developer.

First thanks for your service! The inspiration in this video is surprisingly more beneficial/helpful to me as a new developer than some of the veteran coders information. Thanks brother!

hey thanks so much! watching your video for inspiration, taking a big leap in my life in this direction, appreciate how real you are and relatable, i think sometimes people forget what it was like to be a beginner! :)

Wow! Thank you so much! So much value in your video!

Huge inspiration! Good luck with your new job from Denmark!

Great video! It was nice to hear your story, i felt identify with it . I want to make my own projects and lose the fear to send applications. Greetings from Venezuela

Dude. I am a writer and I've been in video production too. I can tell you that you are a DAMN good storyteller. Like... top-notch. Keep working on your YT channel. I am telling you, you're going to be really big one day. And if you ever want to change your career path, consider podcast hosting.

First video I have watched of yours: Thank you for your service, you seem like a really good dude - happy to hear about your success - please continue to document your experience, I honestly believe it will help others - Happy to sub and support!

Thanks bro , your story is inspiring!

Thanks for the honest explanation❤

This was huge. Thanks.

Inspiring stuff bruv! I'm trying to learn development too started November last year. You've inspired me to set mg deadline for the end of this year to be in a development job. Planning to make videos too and document the journey every step of the way! Starting with the odin project 👍

With web development & programming you learn from doing the more you do the more u learn great video man keep shining 💪🏾💪🏾

Congratulations Bro, first time watching it! Amazing testimony as well as the joke. I straight subscribe to your channel bro. 🙂

Hey 👋 Michael. Thanks for sharing your self taught experience here. The advice on documenting one’s journey on RU-vid is timely, as this is exactly what I’ve planned to do. I also like the advice about doing your own projects when studying, rather than just copying exactly what a lot of these tutorials and coding resources provide. Congratulations on securing your first job in tech! 🎉

Simper Fi! About to start my journey through new career in web development and I look forward to learning from you. For the Hord!

Great video bro! Just started HTML a week ago and this really helps :). Keep it up 😁

Thank you for sharing this. Very useful to hear someone else's story

Great story dude, inspiring

Thankyou youtube algorithm for recommending this video. Coming from a coding background it took me about 2 months to learn full stack development in php though I'm still learning a lot of new things and learning mern stack. This video really motivated me, especially on the interview part!

Very Inspiring video, Congrats on getting a job, Good Luck

Nail it there! "Precious makes diamond, difficulty makes you better"

Thank you for your service. God bless.

This was very helpful. Thank you. I will definitely look into the Oden Project

Thank you for your service.

YAAAAS!!! I had a similar journey, but with grinding on freelance work instead of youtube content! CONGRATS BRO!!!!!

This was very nice and humbling to watch. I completely agree with deviating from the curriculum & building your own projects. Edit: I'm a USAF vet myself. Thank you for your service.

Great vid bro, I'm just starting out and this is great motivation

Congrats !!! This is inspiring

I subscribed when I saw luffy on the wall btw 👌🏽 Awesome hearing your story, I’m looking to get into the tech industry, I’m working on learning the JavaScript fundamentals still, I’m about a month into my journey now. I was going to gunna do it self taught but, I saw nucamp bootcamp was cheap so I’m gunna be doing the bootcamp. The plan is to spend the remainder of this year learning / a little freelancing so next year I can hopefully find my first job 🙌🏼 will def be hanging out checking out your content

You are an inspiration. I hope to land a job in around a year and a half.

I love this video big inspiration for me!

thank you for your service

True! I heartily agree.

Wow, watching this video shows that someone can be literally going through the exact same experiences as you but at a different time. It was as if you were describing my life in the past year. I hope my journey is as successful as yours.

You are a nice guy. Thanks a lot!

Just saw this video and I am excited to start from your 1st one ! I decided to change career aswell. I work in a warehouse (food related) and order food for thousands each month and make all kinds of paperwork/analazing stuff, etc - but the place is toxic and it is not a good one. Making 550$ a month when I have bachelor in economics kinda sucks. 1 month ago decided to buy 1 udemy course, I am half way (JS atm and yea, it is overwhelming but I am trying to keep). After I finish it I plan on going and finishing Oden course, much more exercises. I do hope to be able to switch jobs by the end of 2022 or early 2023. Everything that makes 1000$ a month and above is perfect. Perks for being from east europe I guess, I can work for less :D PS: Keep coding !

"Do your own stuff" Subscribed :D

bro your voice very close to my best tutor on youtube mr Corey Schafer,new sub

Thanks for sharing. Thinking about getting into this

this was dope info bro! thanks for sharing

Hey I'm a new subscriber love your content.💯💯🔥🔥

Congrats!

I'm on the "overwhelmed with JavaScript" part really had a goal to get a front end job by the end of the year but it's not looking that way. I haven't given up though we're still at the start of the year this video has made me consider writing down what I've learned hope it helps and hope I reach my goal at the end.

Hey man! Fellow vet here(Air Force)! I just started to teach myself how to code recently. I’m working on HTML right now. So cool to see you achieve your goal man! Gives me hope lol

Hah! Wrong digit. That’s hilarious!! I’m making the same goal for 2022, specializing in front-end development. This whole video is pretty much my game plan to switch careers

Wow, this video was very helpful. It seems like the best thing you can do for a job interview is to practice copying other websites, which will inevitably improve your skills.

Thanks ! 🙏

I loved your story man.

Congrarts💪🏽

Hey buddy, just subscribed! I decided to learn webdev for fun because that's my hobby, learning new tech. I like this video it gives me a motivation and some ideas that'll help me on my journey.

Thank you! I'm a nurse ready to change my career and you were so Open and Honest it was well worth the watch beginning to end

nicely done!

Bro, I smashed that Subscribe button. Thanks a ton.

Congrats and much success man!

Thanks man, ❤

Nice. I just started to learn how to code HTML, CSS, and Javascript

This, I like. Why do I never get interviews like that, I get grilled on weird edge cases and odd tools, oh well it's all learning 😄

The Odin Project is fucking awesome !

Cool Luffy poster, man🔥💪