My Self-Taught Programmer Success Story: From Broke to Stoked

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[@SonicFictionTV]

I'm also a music producer, but I started learning frontend development from scratch at the beginning of last year. I landed my first freelance job yesterday, and in a few weeks, I have an interview for a full-time position as an Angular developer.

[@TheSombreroHead]

Update?

[@ShangoTheGod]

How did it go?

[@divinesackitey6938]

how did it go?

[@doneilchapman1542]

Congratulations mann

[@natoyle]

Congrats

[@kristinarunciman6472]

Thank you for sharing your story!

[@Emma_Dev]

Congrats bro

[@shopmuseboutique]

This is literally so good 😊

[@kvngaeinie9941]

This was really inspiring ❤

[@nikoladojcinovic1030]

Thanks for this video 🙏

[@kennyborahae]

Thank you for this! It's sooo encouraging😭

[@ToLyLive]

Great story, happy for you! thank you for sharing

[@logitech601]

Nice one, good luck amigo

[@johnryanvillar6862]

thanks man, currently learning html css and bootstrap after I finish those courses im gonna practice javascript and reactjs.

[@nomadictaylor]

Dude you're a life saver. Well done.

[@mauricioalcantara2286]

Dope story!

[@KijanaWv]

This is a great video, so many I’ve seen are repetitive, all over the place and vague. This is detailed well and stays on point.

[@trustyaxe]

Very inspiring! I'm gonna adopt that motto...Persistence trumps talent every single time!

[@juandaRodriguezO]

Great motivational video Dylan! I am starting the journey as a full-stack developer and will definitely check the Udemy resources you suggested.

[@dayou8426]

great story! thanks for sharing

[@KingSoraProductions]

That's a subscribe my guy. Was doing music also... but before I graduated, right during March-April 2020 upon my graduation... i had a remote graduation... couldn't even start my career and everything I learnt in the past 3 years. Here I am now coding and learning continually. Your story gives me hope. It's inspirational and realistic. THANK YOU! You're doing good! Keep going Dylan!! 🙏🏽💯🚀

[@jakemealey5532]

I’m going a somewhat different path. I’ve been self taught for 8-9 months and recently I’ve felt lost and lacked direction. Then I looked into my local community college which I previously graduated from in a completely different degree and they recently opened an IT building. I’m going back to cc to complete an it associates with a programming concentration so I can get more firm direction while working extensively on the side on my self taught journey which is building my portfolio. I am well ahead of the game already and this video pushed me further as recently I kept bouncing from going for cs degree or bootcamp which both can be great but I don’t want to fork out all of that money and University is just too much time lost for potentially not much of a gain given my experience. Granted I have a lot and I mean a lot to learn but I have the discipline to stick to self taught but this associates will be short, very little cost and I can get some better direction while simultaneously building my portfolio. I’m so excited and this video reaffirmed my plan. Thank you!

[@fl3669]

Needed this rn

[@bagery]

I was just getting ready to ask you about LinkedIn when you mentioned to keep it updated. Social media makes me straight up miserable. I had an account when LinkedIn was new and got rid of it. I was hoping to gain tech entry without it but one program I signed up for required an account. I'm hearing all this about networking on there and I feel very much like it's selling my soul. Not to mention, people I thought I was cool with, won't add me. And industry gatekeepers say you need a lot of connections to "appear" hireable. I like how down to Earth and relatable your career switch sounds though. Makes me feel like I can do it. Trying to get the hang of this JavaScript and React stuff at the moment.

[@dylancole_314]

LinkedIn is a great tool but shouldn't be relied on. Always great to keep it updated though. And thanks :) I try to keep it real!

[@NaomiMathe-vs4hq]

Great testimony Everytime I feel like I'm getting nowhere, videos like this are a reminder of how far I've come Thanks for sharing

[@Swahilirecapmovies25]

True

[@Odiabadsha]

Really appreciate your videos it's not only helpful for aspiring developers like us but also a great source of motivation. Please keep on upload video it's extremely helpful 😇

[@dylancole_314]

Thanks for the words! Glad you resonate. Honestly, I'm still learning so let's learn together 🙂

[@phantastik3389]

Nice! I started teaching myself before the pandemic and I got a job working at walmart after about 2 years but Iost the job after 6 months because they wanted me to move to LA. I'm back in square one. Lol. 4 year in.

[@refinedzeta]

I understand your pain for commute. I was doing 3 hours when I first enter the workforce and its detrimental to your health.

[@rebeccajimenez4862]

Can you make a video teaching the pomodoro technique in depth?? Thanks for these videos!

[@Hamcap57]

Same here. I started 3 months ago. Looking for another 6-7 months of learning and landing my first Front-End developer position

[@malikmalcolm425]

How goes it now?

[@BusinessWolf1]

Yea, you got it from the very beginning. Everything is free already.

[@Alex.Shalda]

Great

[@UsernameR8]

Great video

[@Seekingtruth-mx3ur]

I have been a lazy bum. I need to really apply this. Who's with me?

[@heavymetalmixer91]

"Presistence triumphs over talent", uh? Gotta repeat it myself every day from now on.

[@dylancole_314]

Good to see you! And that's right. I still do...

[@pierre12206]

Hey Dylan, how old are you at the first job as a programmer ?

[@mariobroselli3642]

How about talking about software architects?

[@rishirao8856]

Where did you start freelancing , how was your first payment ?

[@ebengardner2429]

Appreciate the video! I'm a few months into my self-taught programming route. I've learned some of c, some of c++, and then most of html and css. Are you saying you got a job with just html css and javascript?

[@dylancole_314]

That's awesome! And yeah, I've gotten multiple jobs with a knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS. It sort of just depends on the companies and roles you're applying to.

[@ebengardner2429]

@@dylancole_314 That's so encouraging! Did you put the websites you built on your resume as projects to show employers?

[@dylancole_314]

@@ebengardner2429 That I did! I actually just filmed a video about this - it'll be out soon so keep an eye out.

[@ebengardner2429]

@@dylancole_314 will do! Subscribed (:

[@justincueva2294]

But how much does your current job pay????

[@granthaley6110]

Persistence Triumphs Talent!! Unless your in the music industry! lol

[@naphsworld]

I need to find a way to make money so I can buy this course

[@ALPHA-gr4hn]

i can not find your linkedin profile

[@jessejordan369]

What do you recommend when learning from FCC. Should i do extra projects when learn from them

[@dylancole_314]

This is the course that I took: www.freecodecamp.org/learn/2022/responsive-web-design/ I highly recommend it. And yeah, extra projects = great idea. It's a good way to solidify what you learn in the course(s).

[@fredericoevanchyk7252]

Promo SM 💃

[@thehowtostudios1980]

seems like a lot of self taught guys learned in 2020 after covid began

[@Abhinav526]

Hey Dylan love your dedication towards content.. but your Thumbnails are not that appealing..i can send you a few redesigned thumbnails for your channel let me know if it sounds good !

[@duumazzii9662]

Hello there, greetings from Finland 😎🫡🇫🇮 Im also started learning web development on my own for couple of months now and got 2 courses from Udemy pretty cheap on sale Planning to switch jobs from this ** grocery store job which is a dead end... Currently just am doing the little "pig game project" (from the JavaScript course by Jonas Schmedtmann I think) and after that i think I could start to implement these techniques to my own projects... 😎🥸 Your success has given me little more motivation. Gongratulations again ! 👍👍👌🙂

[@granthaley6110]

"A degree or a bootcamp is not necessary, and I am living proof...So after I graduated from COLLEGE I went on and...." LMAO

[@apkking5924]

Hey Dylan, loved your content. I have also started learning to code. I started with HTML, now learning CSS on my own plus I'm learning Python at University as I'm a CS student in Pakistan. Also, I subscribed and followed you on Insta. Hoping to get career advice from you. :)

[@dylancole_314]

Thank you for your kind words and thank you thank you thank you for the support! I hope to give you as much of my knowledge, skills, and advice as I can. It's great to hear that you're learning all these technologies. All amazing skills to have.