I still find it crazy that I have been programming for 200+ days now.

While I haven't made any money, I have learned a lot, going from 0 programming skills to now building my first app.

Here are 5 tools that have been essential for my journey so far:

https://buff.ly/4gf3etz

8. (Quick Learning) Claude.ai

I just asked Claude to build efficient learning curriculums for different languages

It would give me what to learn
Websites and videos to learn it fast
Projects to apply the knowledge

7. (Design Inspiration) https://mobbin.com

Huge for website and app inspiration, helping me design better tools

BONUS 6. (CSS Hacks) https://buff.ly/40CEdTu Lun Dev's Entire Channel

It was huge for learning essential CSS skills while also learning cool design tips.

5. https://buff.ly/40D3rRL JavaScript Mastery's React Native Course

This one was huge for me. I already had React fundamentals, so learning React Native with a full app project helped me learn a lot.

It was straightforward and introduced me to Expo and app routing

4. https://buff.ly/40BA81D Net Ninja's Full React Series

I didn't watch all the videos either, but specifically 8-17 to learn hooks.

Most concepts other than that were quick since it is basically just JavaScript

3. Groq.com (Used to build my first Ai based project)

Has easy to use LLMs with good enough free tier for testing and personal projects

2C. (Honorable Mention) Web Dev Simplified's Markdown Blog Tutorial

https://buff.ly/3EeGNHK

This video was the equivalent of 1 rep maxing my coding experience

It was a huge jump in skill from what I was used to, but doing so made all Node.js projects much easier to create.

2B. (Video) freeCodeCamp.org Node.js and Express course video

https://buff.ly/42Bdol5

While I didn't watch the whole video, I gained a lot of valuable insight out of this one! It was very helpful for getting me to gain momentum building backends.

2. freeCodeCamp.org (used for beginner HTML/CSS/JS)

Helped me understand frontend development and gave me useful projects to test my skills with.

1. Roadmap.sh (Absolutely essential for this entire journey)

Gave me an idea of what to learn in order, allowing me to cover the necessary topics

0. devdocs.io Every Language and detailed documentation for all

Helped me figure out what HTML elements to use (can't use div for everything lmao)

Used it to learn Array functions for JS since there are a variety

Great place to refresh myself on topics I learned

I'm looking forward to using Bluesky as an archive for my development journey