My secret to advancing software skills
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Published: 2023-11-18 19:53:14

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As mentioned in my previous posts, working together with an **experienced developer** or on your own **hobby projects** can rapidly improve your software skills.

However, this **learning curve** also flattens after a while. Without proper **guidance** while developing your hobby projects, you'll only learn from it _the hard way_. This isn't bad but it might take you much **longer** than it needs to.

Content creators can be a invaluable to your developer journey! Some provide you with isolated how-to's, others update you on the news within the space, ...

On the **"Keep it simple, stupid."** YouTube channel, I continuously work on real-world apps while exploring & leveraging the latest .NET features and Azure cloud services.

I share with you how I implement these, with **real** use cases and how I architect entire **end-to-end** solutions from start to finish. I also share the code for you to learn from or for you to adapt to fit your requirements.

**My most effective method to advance my software skills.**

By **repurposing** someone else's well-crafted **code** , you can get a deeper understanding of why and how the author solves certain problems. How they **structure** their projects and more. By immersing yourself into it with the proper curiosity and willingness to learn, you'll adopt great practices and advance your overall knowledge on software development.

How I would I know? Well, I've been developing daily for over 11 years, started out as a **self-taught** programmer, learned a thing or two in college, learned more on the job. In some jobs, I was on my own, in others I had the privilege to work with peer developers. Besides that, I am always working on hobby projects and learning from those slowly but surely.

Yet, the impact of immersing myself into other's **inspirational** work have taken me way beyond what I could learn up until that point. Not only is that work the result of decades of experience of the author but their invested time and attention to detail, makes it a work of art and an **invaluable** resource to learn from.

That's exactly what I aim to **offer** with my content! I put a lot of time, effort and thought into making valuable resources to either learn from, act as an alternative solution / perspective or to be molded into someone's work.

I'm pleased to see that it is doing exactly that for a variety of developers:

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