Kudos for the open and honest assessment, I enjoyed reading it. Some feedback for your journey: Drop the focus on languages. Choose one (popular) language and f

Kudos for the open and honest assessment, I enjoyed reading it. Some feedback for your journey: Drop the focus on languages. Choose one (popular) language and focus on understanding it well. The best thing you can do, is find some open source project with high quality code in that language, and study it. Slowly, how long it takes does not matter. The end result is you will pick up best practices and styles you did not know exist. Concomitantly, study a few frameworks in your chosen language. Ex: If you select python and are doing web development, learn how Django and Flask work. Learn how the requests library or a forms library works. By reading good code, and studying frameworks and libraries that solve peoples real problems, you will build a foundation for how to put together higher quality and longer lasting code. That will not only make you better as a programmer, and better in your chosen language, but you'll start to find that a substantial portion of what you learn will start to transfer.