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I made lots of mistakes while learning to code, actually terrible ones. I thought, why not warn everyone before they make the same. I am sure this will help you get on the fast track towards success.
- Learning it all at once
When I started to learn to program, I spent too much time learning different programming languages and frameworks at once. I spent a week with one technology and language, learning its basics and another the next week. I just kept on jumping from one thing to another. I bet many have and will commit this same mistake. Now I realise that was a dumb idea. I was learning multiple things at once, but I had no clear direction about what type of developer role I wanted to have. I was becoming general of everything instead of specialising, focusing my energy and time on one thing. Programming languages are just tools, and tools come with various shapes an