Bro I’m in final year and literally know NOTHING, am I doomed? 😭
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Haha wow, Minecraft mods as a tween? Respect
. Totally feel you — college teaches the basics, but anything actually used in the real world you’re usually left to figure out on your own.Props for grinding Spring + React on your own — that’s exactly how you actually learn stuff. Makes me wish there was a space where you could start with real projects, tinker, get some guidance, and slowly build a portfolio without scrambling last minute. Way less chaos than figuring it all out solo in the final year.
I think the secret sauce is to care about a desire/issue in your personal life and then decide that programming a solution is the way to do it.
That what made me deploy my NAS, server and docker containers.
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Haha fair point
college should’ve been that one-stop place… but let’s be real, most of us walked out knowing way less than we thought we would. A degree proves patience, not that you actually built stuff.That’s kinda why I keep wishing there was a version of that idea done right — where you actually learn by building, mess with real projects, and get feedback along the way. Would’ve saved a lot of people from the “3 years in and still clueless” panic.
Do not dick around and write code in your free time?
