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Hey, don't worry about these kind of things man. I myself am a selfthaught web developer and I've been doing it like for four years now. I've never applied for a job yet not because I can't code but because I'm in college. Now I started learning Python. I code because it's fun for me. So what I'm saying is that don't feel bad what other people say you'll learn it. It's just a programming language. By the way you should like critics because that's the best motivation there is. You should feel motivated by critics and not bad.
I had literally JUST learned to code, after completing an online course. I had played around making some tiny C# programs was looking for my first Junior job. A recruiter got in touch and to him I sounded like I knew what I was talking about. So he contacted the employer, called me back me later on and said that the employer wanted to see some sample code of mine.
"Sure!" I said eagerly and pasted my programs into an email. My two programs were probably about 20 lines of code in total - both Console apps. One was a stopwatch which I "hadn't quite got working yet", the other a Quadratic Equation solver.
The response came back that I was "too Junior for the position".
I know we all have to start somewhere, but I painfully cringe when I think about this employer and probably alll the devs there crowding around his monitor, pissing themselves at my tiny programs.
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