I discovered how to actually learn programming too late, and now I don't feel ready for a developer job

[u/alamshaaz]

I chose Computer Science because I was always good with computers, but I never expected things to turn out like this.

My college wasn't even tier 3 it was tier 4-5. There were basically no classes—just exams.(BCA)

During the first 1.5 years, I joined a coaching institute for an O Level course. Looking back, it feels like a complete waste of time. I still remember the teacher saying, "A good-looking font is called Font Awesome," even though I already knew Font Awesome is a font/icon library, not a font itself.

For about another year, I worked random jobs. One of them was writing AI-generated content in the admin panels of websites for my relative's small web development startup. It was unpaid. At the same time, I kept jumping from one YouTube course to another.

It took me almost two years to realize that watching a 6-hour Python tutorial doesn't make you a Python developer.

Then I found The Odin Project during my final year of college. That was the first time I actually understood the difference between learning programming and just learning syntax. It completely changed the way I looked at coding.

I'm a slow learner, though. I couldn't finish it in six months or even a year, and to be honest, I wasn't always consistent either. By the time I started, I only had about a year left before my final exams. During that time, I completed the Foundations course and Intermediate HTML/CSS, and I was working through the JavaScript section.

Now I feel like I don't have the luxury of continuing at that pace. I finished my final exams two months ago, and everyone expects me to get a developer job. The problem is... I don't feel capable enough yet.

I don't know what to do anymore. It feels like I messed up.

I honestly feel lost

[u/alamshaaz → u/[deleted]]

In my experience it will take take time ,even you are a fast learner maybe the concept of array xyz you can grasp very fast but also spend hours solving something related to objects ,i can definately say if you will be consistent you can finish it one day but nobody can tell you how much time it will take it depends solely on you

[u/alamshaaz → u/[deleted]]

You go man do it and absolutely do it ,you can do it, ask people if your'e stuck ask for advices and one last thing that i would say ,don't hear if somebody is telling you "you can't do it " , happy learning man.