Hi, as someone attempting this full time, here is my take. Legit or not, I have no idea, demand being high, it's not that hard to get a job I guess if you're n

Hi, as someone attempting this full time, here is my take. Legit or not, I have no idea, demand being high, it's not that hard to get a job I guess if you're not aiming for FANG level. Plus, most of these people, as far as I know, are a developer advocate or content creator for the their company and not developers per se. Project based learning is good, but structured learning is better IMO. For the single reason that when you start you don't know what you don't know someone has to guide you. You can learn everything from building whatever you like, making mistakes, correct said mistakes, rinse and repeat. But it will take you way more time than just following a premade path, and be done with it. For that I made my own "boot camp" (here https://github.com/woadray/bootcamp https://github.com/woadray/bootcamp if interested). I, like you was lost in this YouTube business of self a taught dev recommending courses and such. Decided after more research and discussions with qualified people that most of them are trash. I'm experimenting on myself to see how doable is it to get a job as a self taught developer with a twist, I'm from Africa and I live in France (for now at least), aiming for US remote job if not sponsored. All you need is discipline I think. Tips: - BOOKS are better than VIDEOS - Leetcode style website are puzzle games, try to have fun with them. You can learn on the job, but in order to do that you have to get that job first. - Build hard stuff