I have just joined and I found this place so compelling that I feel pushed to write my first post and share my humble experience.
I have also been inspired by two good DEV articles with the same title: "I Wish I Had Started Documenting My Tech Journey Earlier", which highlight the importance of keeping track of progress wherever one is in the tech journey. So here I am documenting my 'first' steps.
And I put first in quotes for a reason.
While it is in fact my first time sharing, I have been around tech for quite some time, mainly learning to code but switching between multiple frameworks and languages.
I am a book person. I find books have a certain structured narrative that isn't found in the docs (debatable, I know). Anyway, after brushing up on HTML/CSS I started with PHP and the comprehensive two-part book called PHP 8 Objects, Patterns, and Practice and never went beyond the chapters on objects. After a while I subscribed to O'Reilly for a month (as expensive as it is) and got really bouncing between the endless cloud and web development technologies. I eventually decided to focus on JavaScript. (I also could not ignore the 'PHP is getting old, JS is the future' trend.)
