ADAPT TO NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE -JOURNEY TO BECOME A FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Hello Techies,👩‍💻 👋
This thread is to share my learnings everyday on my full-stack development journey. To begin with here's the short story on learning path and motivations 😁

DEV ROLE - WHAT I EXPECTED

If someone asks, Hey Priya, which drove you to choose software development as a career- my answer would be NEW CHALLENGES AND LEARNINGS EVERYDAY 😁 What's life without challenges? 🥳 Hey,you are a really good coder - whenever I heard this, this gave me an excitement more than any thing else.
But CODING - This always meant back end technologies to me since I started coding. C,C++,Java, C# -these were the languages learnt/thought until I graduated. And I assumed I will be working on them when I got my first ever job.

REALITY- WHAT IS ACTUALLY A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Reality always hits hard,👿 isn't it? After starting my internship I understood working product/application is connection of different components/ technologies. However I was lucky enough to get into Dotnet projects which kept me always in comfort zone for 5 years 😁.

Yes , It took 5 years to realise I am not doing what I really wanted to do 😒. Finally The hunt for job/ role change made me to realise no one will welcome a person who stick to one particular tech and reluctant to adapt.

landing on Dream Job

reading blogs and tutorials
reading books
doing courses on online learning platforms
certification exams THE HACK HERE: If you are able to master any one language/ framework( mine is dotnet) learning new language's concepts are lot easier. (since the concepts are same mostly the syntax/usage is the only variation amongst them) So, this really helped on my journey? Actually to some extent -Yes- this really helped me to clear technical interviews and got me my dream job :)

The actual Challenge

Yayyyy!!!! One fine day I switched to my dream company. My first responsibility was to develop an full stack app as expected😁

But Wait !!!!😼 the actual challenge begins here.. It took me a week setup a simple empty repository on react using webpack. - I was like really?? spent so much time completing courses on react and still struggling to complete so basic step .

WHAT REALLY HELPS IN LEARNING

And finally I realised -- the only thing that could help to learn technology is getting your hands dirty :) Other learning sources-they will mostly cover the core/basic concepts of any language and not all the use cases.

Days went - I got excited 😛 when i was able to code a simple component. It felt like an achievement when I was able to write test case for react code.

As I wished, Everyday I learnt at-least one new scenario/ problem solution.
And this every use case / new scenario helped me to understand the language/ framework more :)