About one year ago, I started my journey to become what's known as a self-taught software developer. A very interesting and demanding path, as it turned out. I didn't know where to start or what I would learn in the process, but I took my first full-stack developer course on a famous platform because it cost me only 12 dollars and I thought back then, "What the heck. That adds up to just a few cups of coffee. If it isn't worth it, no big deal". Actually, it was worth it - quite worth it in fact! And now I feel so grateful to my one-year-younger self who was brave and stupid enough to take that first step. Brave because with two kids, a daily job, and a lot of things to fill in my schedule, I wasn't sure if I was able to find time to study, and stupid because if I had known how much I'd have to learn and that the process never ends for a developer, maybe I wouldn't have ever started in the first place. However, I did!

As you can imagine, I've dived into this absolutely fantastic world of programming. Slowly, but constantly, I started to draw on my own canvas of knowledge in this field. Dot by dot, line by line.

Imagine the process of learning anything you want to learn from scratch as a whiteboard or a white canvas if you like. You just start with your first dot. Your first small piece of knowledge, and then another dot here, and another there. You get my point. Sometimes you draw a dot and connect it with another with a line. Something clicks in your mind. You solidify your previous knowledge because of the new information you have acquired. And the cycle goes on and on. Eventually, after many hours of study and practice, you've drawn your own white canvas with hundred of dots and lines connecting them. Congratulations, you've become an expert!

Thanks for reading :)