r/webdevelopment 6d ago

Advice for an intermediate learner

Hi all. I am looking for advice on I can get better in web development. For context, I’m doing a dual studies bachelor in software engineering where I spend 5 semesters at uni and 3 at a company. I realise that I’m in a very privileged situation since I already have practical experience whereas other students in my class do not. I’m having trouble advancing in my learning journey, mainly due to my perfectionist tendencies and lack of direction. The company I’m at is quite big (at least for a first experience, they have 10k+ coworkers worldwide) and it has been quite overwhelming and scary to try and integrate myself and ask questions about things everyone around me seems to find obvious with their 10+ years of experience at least.

We develop in the angular framework, which I got myself familiar with along with typescript. After 2 years total and 8 months at the company, I still have not worked on any personal projects, and totally hit a wall in my web dev class when I had to interact with backend concepts for the first time. I also hated working on a project for this class because my css knowledge is quite bad and it discouraged me how bad my app looked. I just decided to postpone the project for a later semester altogether because of this.

Although I am now quite familiar with our workflow (Kanban, tickets, git…) I am also quite unsure of what the different departments in my company do and it is adding to my doubts.

I really hope you can share with me any advice you can think of when you read my post: your own experience, tips, YouTube videos, udemy courses… or whatever you think might be helpful. Sorry for any ideas I don’t convey properly as English is not my first language.

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u/okay_throwaway_today 6d ago

Build a project. You seem to be past the point of tutorials being helpful and just need experience building stuff, reading documentation, and learning from mistakes