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title: "My Developer Journey"
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description: "Learn about how I transition into the tech and Web3 and learned web development"
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publishDate: "27 Feb 2023"
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description: "Learn about how I transition into the tech and Web3 and learned web development"
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tags: ["web development", "bio", "personal", "web3"]
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Of course talking to people all day every day took a tole on my mental health after four years, and that's about when my son was born. I had about three weeks of vacation and sick time off to help my wife before going back to work, and yeah I really didn't want to go back after taking a good solid break. I sat in that hospital parking lot, scrolling through YouTube, when I came across a video. This video to be precise: 

            

            
            

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## The Grind

            

            
            

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Of course the title is clickbait and I got hooked, and while I didn't learn to code in three months, I got started. I bought [Head First: HTML with CSS and XHTML](https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HTML-CSS-Standards-Based/dp/0596159900) off eBay for $10 and blew through it in a weekend; I just couldn't stop consuming knowledge about web development. This wasn't programming just yet, but the magic was there because I watched text on a screen transform into something visual. I've had a creative background with music and photography, and the ability to create something with lines of code was fascinating. The next book was [Head First Java](https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Brain-Learners/dp/0596004656?keywords=head+first+java&qid=1677605428&sr=8-5) which did not click with me at all. I barely grasped the basic programming principles, but I couldn't understand how they connected with web sites and made things work, and that was likely due to using 5-10 year old books. I switched up and went to YouTube again and found some web development roadmap videos, that gave me a rough guideline of what I needed to learn.