I am fully self taught, was a Senior Dev at Amazon (got it after 2 years of the L5 Standard Dev), and prior to that, spent about 4 years in the industry. The l

I am fully self taught, was a Senior Dev at Amazon (got it after 2 years of the L5 Standard Dev), and prior to that, spent about 4 years in the industry. The last thing you want to do is learn from a senior. Any worthwhile mentor that actually is worth listening to will usually tell you to go try stuff and figure it out. If you have a laptop, you have all the information and environment to learn. The only thing that you need to have is a framework of learning, which is very simply this: Chose a feature to work on -> Write some code -> something doesn't work -> research the error, figure out why it doesn't work -> try various solutions until it works. Rinse and repeat.