"I had access to all the world's best teachers(udemy, youtube, blogs)"
Based on my experience learning full stack development, those are some of the worst teachers.
I started making real progress when I stopped using those, including Stack Overflow, and just got some of those big, old fashioned books. You know, the ones that cost like $80 on Amazon?
Finding one comprehensive resource on a subject from a subject matter expert, going through it in its entirety and mastering that material, and then moving to the next subject area using the same approach.
Youtube videos in particular are very frustrating for me - once you actually learn the topic with a bit of depth, you can go back and see that a lot of the "leet coders" making the videos actually have a very shallow knowledge of what they are teaching. The semi blind leading the blind...
Yup, tons of educational garbage online. FreeCodeCamp is a big offender. 12 year olds teaching syntax. These places exist for a reason their job is to sell the illusion of knowledge.
The main freecodecamp course is decently high quality but the youtube videos are basically affiliate junior developers (if that) it's clear that no one is checking the quality of the videos. At least that's how it looks. Over the last 3-4 years the FCC youtube channel has had a huge drop in quality by just being a platform they let anyone post to.
Based on my experience learning full stack development, those are some of the worst teachers.
I started making real progress when I stopped using those, including Stack Overflow, and just got some of those big, old fashioned books. You know, the ones that cost like $80 on Amazon?
Finding one comprehensive resource on a subject from a subject matter expert, going through it in its entirety and mastering that material, and then moving to the next subject area using the same approach.
Youtube videos in particular are very frustrating for me - once you actually learn the topic with a bit of depth, you can go back and see that a lot of the "leet coders" making the videos actually have a very shallow knowledge of what they are teaching. The semi blind leading the blind...