Articles by Tag #selftaught
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What I Would Tell My Younger Self About Learning to Code
If I could go back in time and give my younger self some advice about learning to code, I’d have a...
How I Discovered I Love Tech as a 26-Year-Old Sous Chef
From wine dinners to Linux terminals — how I fell in love with tech while still cooking full-time.
Balancing a Passion for Coding with Family Life: What I Wish I Knew Sooner
For years, I let my love for coding consume me. Hours would slip by as I worked on projects, debugged...
M.I.A.
I have not checked in for three weeks due to not having much time and then not making much progress...
Coding Bootcamp vs. Self-Taught: What’s Better in 2025?
Explore whether coding bootcamps or the self-taught route is better for developers in 2025. This guide compares costs, flexibility, job-readiness, and career prospects.
Linting, dropdowns and carousels...
Things I've worked on/completed since my last post… Linting Dynamic User Interface...
Overcoming Self-Doubt: Lessons from My First Year as a Self-Taught Developer
Hey everyone, I'm Emmanuel Olusegun, a frontend developer and aspiring full-stack dev. Originally, I...
🚀 My Journey as a Self-Taught Developer: Lessons and Tips for Beginners
When I started learning programming, I had a firm understanding of my path. After my experience in...
How to learn tech after college step-by-step.
My real story of moving from a commerce background to web development — and how I’m building a tech career from scratch.
When I Finally Felt Like a Real Developer
When I landed my first developer role in 1991/1992, I spent months second-guessing myself. Every time...
To-do: the wrong approach - again...(localStorage)
(Note: this should have been posted on 16/02/25) Things I've worked on/completed since my...
Paying the price for designing for a single project in the beginning (To-do)
Note: I did not post last week as I have had two very unproductive weeks for various reasons and I am...
Editing and deleting: rewiring To-do...
I am going to make this week’s post short, as I had very little free time this week and also had an...
To-didn't
_I had virtually no free time this week to work on the To-do project and so made virtually no...
Completed the Binary Search Tree
THINGS I’VE WORKED ON/COMPLETED… I completed the Binary Search Tree. Started Knights...
Why I Started CS50 (And What I'm Learning So Far From Level Zero)
What I Did: Before June 2025 I’ll be transparent: I originally considered going back to...
Tic-tac-toe: I thought this post would never come...
(This should have been posted on 03/11/24) Things I've worked on/completed since my last...
Trying to think like (a) Git
THINGS I’VE WORKED ON/COMPLETED… A Deeper Look at Git Working with Remotes - almost...
BST, the Find method and levelOrderForEach
THINGS I’VE WORKED ON/COMPLETED… The Find method in BST. The levelOrderForEach in BST. ...
let X0X0 = 'help me';
(This should have been posted yesterday 27/10/24) I am not going to lay my post out as I usually...
Attack of the killer Webpack
(Note that I didn’t have much time this week, so didn’t make as much progress as I had hoped). ...
Learning Windows Server 2022: My First Setup on VirtualBox (Part 1)
I'm currently building my skills in IT support by doing hands-on projects and documenting the...
BST - the end in sight?
I did not post last week as I did not have much time to work on BST. I will keep this brief as my...
Knights Travails
Note: I skipped last week’s post and this should have been posted yesterday. THINGS I’VE...
Why CS50 Should Be Your Next Learning Adventure
Are you looking for a comprehensive introduction to computer science and programming? If yes, Harvard...
To-do, to-do, to-do
Note: this should have been posted on Sunday, 12/01/25. Things I've worked on/completed...
Finished the BST deleteValue method...
THINGS I’VE WORKED ON/COMPLETED… I finished the BST deleteValue method. ISSUES I...
To-doing the to-do...
(I am going to try to keep this post short, as I have been short of time this week and my...
Still to-doing the to-do...
(I will keep this week’s post ‘brief-ish’ also as I have had some time constraints and have not been...
Light at the end of the To-do tunnel?
Things I've worked on/completed since my last post… I have been working on local storage...