[kayimbo]

my tip would be absolutely don't start with all the normal shit everyone does. Learn some real niche or ultra modern shit first. Start with things that are considered very hard. CSS/react ect is absolutely worthless knowledge that is going to take just as much time to learn as something valuable that differentiates you.

there are an incredible number of specialties in programming. You don't want to be competing with 50 million other junior developers.

My second tip is unless you are a genius, the learning curve is going to suck. just gotta stick with it and grind it out till the shit is easy. Years of learning curve.

My third tip is talking about programming is an equally important skill as programming. You need to communicate with a lot of different developers often, so you can learn the lingo.