Where do you want to be in five years? That's what I ask myself once in a while. Read the great books of the field, starting with the Mythical Man Month, beca

Where do you want to be in five years? That's what I ask myself once in a while. Read the great books of the field, starting with the Mythical Man Month, because all the others refer back to it. Do one of the CS courses they mention on here once in a while. Online, self-paced whatever. (Oh, see you've found one.) Don't rush it, expect it to take several years at a part-time pace to get fully up to speed. Yet, you never stop learning in this biz---don't take it personally. Was telling a younger person recently that there is an overwhelming amount of things to learn as a software dev these days. I had the benefit of learning it piece by piece over a couple of decades from the ground up as it was invented. Not so today, don't be too hard on yourself.