I set a goal in November 2013 to become a professional developer in 5 years. Became a developer in June 2015. The first few months were figuring out what to learn but once I learned what the market wanted in my local area, I went about learning that particular language and framework. In my case that was Ruby on Rails. Now I'm trying to become a more rounded Full Stack dev.

1 year: Able to make basic crud apps, use Jquery, css, 2 year: Much more comfortable with Rails, unix, CI and everything that goes with it 3 year: Comfortable using services such as Elasticsearch, learning new languages etc. 4 year - now: Currently learning Docker but make a list at the start of every year of the things I want to learn.

I make a list every year of what I want to learn and just do it.

Current list looks like this:

[x] Rails Performance by Nate B

[ ] Teach Yourself Computer Science

[x] Design for Hackers book

[x] ES6 by Wes Bos

[ ] learn docker https://diveintodocker.com/ref-gorails#enroll

[x] Javascript course 30 days (Wes Bos)

[x] Css grid course (Wes Bos)

[x] Css flex course (Wes Bos)

[ ] Scala - build list of resources first

[ ] Javascript the weird parts (udemy)