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The obvious answer is to jump in and actually code something you want to use yourself. It will be fun, right?
I must admit that this kind of question always baffles me a bit. Why would anyone want to do boring courses and video tutorials when they can just get started on a real problem and learn as they go? There's nothing more dull than solving a fake problem.
Unless - unless! - it's that really you're interested in the status and money that comes with coding rather than the coding itself. In which case go ahead and get lots of paper qualifications and jump thru hoops to polish up that CV etc etc. But be prepared for a boring career.
I agree with you, but maybe my problem is that I cannot focus on something long enough? I have started probably ~100 projects that would all be "the one that is for real", and never ended any. What I said about having coded for many years but not having many qualifications is exactly that, I have coded in probably 10+ languages, all of them very badly and unfocused.
Right now I am working in a project for my brother (he doesn't really need it, but it would be a nice plus), that is basically a flask web app where he can keep track of AV equipment. It is quite basic really, but not having the prior knowledge of how to structure divs and such (compositing / layouts), I really struggle to create a UI, so I just start copy pasting from the bootstrap documentation...
Maybe I should just double down on what I have been doing tho.
Thanks for the answer :)
You are never wasting your time with unfinished projects no matter how unrelated it might seem to your current interests.
You dont have the right mindset yet to push through and finish a project, mostly because of poor ideation of the full project, rather than how things get done logically on your code.
You dont need to just be a developer, you are a professional problem solver of all kinds and any obstacle can get absolutely FUCKED if it thinks its going to keep you from getting to the next step.
Project management is important and theres a free textbook link below, but working alone and without a bugdet or real time constraints gives you the freedom to work on any aspect of a project as you feel like it... and can switch between focuses so you can dream about how users will interact with your project, or what algorithm could solve a specific problem in the project. The key is to write (type) everything down and don't stop. And you really dont even want to be coding at this point... just pseudo code... class diagrams... different visualizations.
And hey if you burn out and lose focus, you identified what you need to learn and maybe even have something to show for it. Yes minimizing these slips gets easier but once you start going through the complex motions of realistic projects you will eventually start memorizing.
https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/project-management-navigating-the-complexity/