Effective Learning for Software Developers

Zsolt Nagy
20 min readAug 15, 2018

Software developer degrees or bootcamps don’t guarantee that you are set for life. Whatever your responsibilities are right now, I can only guarantee you one thing: you will have to learn and level up in your career on a regular basis.

Less experienced developers are often anxious when it comes to closing the gap between where they are and where some of their more senior peers are. There are so many topics out there, and a lifetime is not enough to learn them all. This is one reason why software developers often express their frustration about the high churn rate when it comes to technological change.

The objective of this article is to put an end to trial and error with unproductive learning. My highest intent is to show you that there is a mindset out there that helps you accomplish a lot more in your career than you could ever imagine, while making learning one of the most exciting things in your life. You will soon find out how to get out the most from your learning experience, and how to profit a lot more from it than ever before.

You see, if you can’t learn effectively, your career will suffer. If you internalize an effective mindset and strategy for learning, you may save years in your professional career.

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Zsolt Nagy

I am a web development team lead, mentor, and software engineer living in Berlin, Germany authoring two blogs: zsoltnagy.eu and devcareermastery.com.