Lessons Learned as a Self-taught Developer

The story of how I became a developer and the lessons I learned along the way.

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1. Lessons Learned as a Self-taught Developer @ThePaulMcBride
3. How did I become a developer?
4. via: Lings Cars, lingscars.com
6. £28,000
7. £47,000
8. Think big start small
9. Pick one language and stick to it
10. Coding is the easy part
11. The community is here to help
12. Avoid the tutorial trap
14. Watch someone 1
15. Practice 2
16. Teach someone 3
17. No one really knows what they are doing
18. –Martin Fowler “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand”