My Self-Taught Programmer Success Story: From Broke to Stoked 

I'm also a music producer, but I started learning frontend development from scratch at the beginning of last year. I landed my first freelance job yesterday, and in a few weeks, I have an interview for a full-time position as an Angular developer.

This was really inspiring ❤

Great story, happy for you! thank you for sharing

Dude you're a life saver. Well done.

This is literally so good 😊

Thank you for sharing your story!

thanks man, currently learning html css and bootstrap after I finish those courses im gonna practice javascript and reactjs.

That's a subscribe my guy. Was doing music also... but before I graduated, right during March-April 2020 upon my graduation... i had a remote graduation... couldn't even start my career and everything I learnt in the past 3 years. Here I am now coding and learning continually. Your story gives me hope. It's inspirational and realistic. THANK YOU! You're doing good! Keep going Dylan!! 🙏🏽💯🚀

Thanks for this video 🙏

Congrats bro

Thank you for this! It's sooo encouraging😭

Great motivational video Dylan! I am starting the journey as a full-stack developer and will definitely check the Udemy resources you suggested.

Very inspiring! I'm gonna adopt that motto...Persistence trumps talent every single time!

I’m going a somewhat different path. I’ve been self taught for 8-9 months and recently I’ve felt lost and lacked direction. Then I looked into my local community college which I previously graduated from in a completely different degree and they recently opened an IT building. I’m going back to cc to complete an it associates with a programming concentration so I can get more firm direction while working extensively on the side on my self taught journey which is building my portfolio. I am well ahead of the game already and this video pushed me further as recently I kept bouncing from going for cs degree or bootcamp which both can be great but I don’t want to fork out all of that money and University is just too much time lost for potentially not much of a gain given my experience. Granted I have a lot and I mean a lot to learn but I have the discipline to stick to self taught but this associates will be short, very little cost and I can get some better direction while simultaneously building my portfolio. I’m so excited and this video reaffirmed my plan. Thank you!

This is a great video, so many I’ve seen are repetitive, all over the place and vague. This is detailed well and stays on point.

Nice one, good luck amigo

Dope story!

Great testimony Everytime I feel like I'm getting nowhere, videos like this are a reminder of how far I've come Thanks for sharing

great story! thanks for sharing

Needed this rn

I was just getting ready to ask you about LinkedIn when you mentioned to keep it updated. Social media makes me straight up miserable. I had an account when LinkedIn was new and got rid of it. I was hoping to gain tech entry without it but one program I signed up for required an account. I'm hearing all this about networking on there and I feel very much like it's selling my soul. Not to mention, people I thought I was cool with, won't add me. And industry gatekeepers say you need a lot of connections to "appear" hireable. I like how down to Earth and relatable your career switch sounds though. Makes me feel like I can do it. Trying to get the hang of this JavaScript and React stuff at the moment.

Really appreciate your videos it's not only helpful for aspiring developers like us but also a great source of motivation. Please keep on upload video it's extremely helpful 😇

I understand your pain for commute. I was doing 3 hours when I first enter the workforce and its detrimental to your health.

Nice! I started teaching myself before the pandemic and I got a job working at walmart after about 2 years but Iost the job after 6 months because they wanted me to move to LA. I'm back in square one. Lol. 4 year in.

Same here. I started 3 months ago. Looking for another 6-7 months of learning and landing my first Front-End developer position

Can you make a video teaching the pomodoro technique in depth?? Thanks for these videos!

Yea, you got it from the very beginning. Everything is free already.

I don't know why, but music production prepared me for coding , stay hour on a daw and learn is not that different than studyng coding, so now it feel so natural

Hey Dylan, how old are you at the first job as a programmer ?

Where did you start freelancing , how was your first payment ?

Great

I have been a lazy bum. I need to really apply this. Who's with me?

But how much does your current job pay????

Appreciate the video! I'm a few months into my self-taught programming route. I've learned some of c, some of c++, and then most of html and css. Are you saying you got a job with just html css and javascript?

"Presistence triumphs over talent", uh? Gotta repeat it myself every day from now on.

How about talking about software architects?

Great video

Is there a video where you outline how your skills develop AFTER you started working in tech? Or were you doing mostly the same things and just new job opportunities came about?

What do you recommend when learning from FCC. Should i do extra projects when learn from them

i can not find your linkedin profile

I need to find a way to make money so I can buy this course

Persistence Triumphs Talent!! Unless your in the music industry! lol

Promo SM 💃

seems like a lot of self taught guys learned in 2020 after covid began

Hey Dylan love your dedication towards content.. but your Thumbnails are not that appealing..i can send you a few redesigned thumbnails for your channel let me know if it sounds good !

Hello there, greetings from Finland 😎🫡🇫🇮 Im also started learning web development on my own for couple of months now and got 2 courses from Udemy pretty cheap on sale Planning to switch jobs from this ** grocery store job which is a dead end... Currently just am doing the little "pig game project" (from the JavaScript course by Jonas Schmedtmann I think) and after that i think I could start to implement these techniques to my own projects... 😎🥸 Your success has given me little more motivation. Gongratulations again ! 👍👍👌🙂

"A degree or a bootcamp is not necessary, and I am living proof...So after I graduated from COLLEGE I went on and...." LMAO

Hey Dylan, loved your content. I have also started learning to code. I started with HTML, now learning CSS on my own plus I'm learning Python at University as I'm a CS student in Pakistan. Also, I subscribed and followed you on Insta. Hoping to get career advice from you. :)