What is some legit advice on becoming a self-taught dev?

It’s going to get hard before it gets easy, start small and grow at your own pace rather then trying to ingest everyone at once.

by the time you reach a point where you think you have learned it all or at least you know a lot -- bear in mind that you know just a scratch of the surface. This "I've learned it!!!" feeling is false. And it will always be.

This applies no matter how you're learning the language: yourself or with a mentor.

Just keep going. Like a squirrel in a wheel. Don't stop. You will never reach the top, but you'll fucking enjoy your journey!

There are things which a book on programming language can't teach like programming practices , for such things refer to other books like clean code, pragmatic programmer etc.

Once you start to feel confident with what you can create, try to get out of the comfort zone and try something new, otherwise its to easy to get stuck.

Try different code challenges or try helping out with an open source project that different from what you are used to.

Knowing many different ways and situations help a lot when trying to solve problems.

Also, learning a bit about how or why something works like it does can help in understanding how to use it and most importantly, how NOT to use it :)

There os a lot of security holes due to using something you don’t really know or understand in the wrong way.

Don't neglect the things you are not interested in. Everything is a requirement at some point.

And don't think you are better than schools. At one point consider the value of actually pursuing a higher education.

Best Advice 2018: Watch programming tutorials in Indian accent

Don't underestimate programming books

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@notlikethis had a job interview today... They want me to use MERN stack and complete the assignment in one day. I only have 1,5 month experience

@Hubot-0x58 @notlikethis thank you so much guys for support. I really appreciate it. It is so much for just one day. I'll do the best I can. Keep you guys posted if that's okay