6 Tips to Success as a Self-Taught Software Developer

Amy
Amy
Nov 1 · 4 min read

I have officially reached the one month mark of being employed as a self-taught developer. Beyond the simple glory of being paid to code, I can also say I have meaningfully contributed to my engineering team. For me this demonstrates success, so I would like to share how I got here.

Side-note: I also like the term community-taught because unless you invented the language…

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I love clean code and a good adventure. Addicted to learning whatever is next.

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