50 Common Mistakes most developers make while starting out

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⚡️1. Focusing on completing courses instead of coding (or completing projects) .

⚡️2. Skipping the fundamentals.

⚡️3. Not joining a developer community.

⚡️4. Not creating projects from scratch.

⚡️5. Skipping Data Structures.
⚡️6. Not reading the documentation.

⚡️7. Trying to learn everything in one day.

⚡️8. Blindly following the tutorial and not extending the code or making their own version of code.

⚡️9. Not asking for help when needed.

⚡️10. Never commenting the code (In required places).
⚡️11. Endlessly Planning instead of Building.

⚡️12. Learning different technologies instead of mastering one.

⚡️13. Not reading stuff (books/articles/documentation).

⚡️14. Not maintaining a balance between programming and not programming.

⚡️15. Not finishing what they started
⚡️16. Not building stuff they care about.

⚡️17. Getting overwhelmed by others' progress/headstart

⚡️18. Not knowing when to quite and start over.

⚡️19. Not practising enough.

⚡️20. Endlessly buying Udemy courses.
⚡️21. Not trying new stuff (frameworks etc).

⚡️22. Not sleeping enough.

⚡️23. Getting addicted to caffeine.

⚡️24. Being afraid to experimentation.

⚡️25. Letting Impostor syndrome take over.
⚡️26. Overworking.

⚡️27. Sacrificing Social life.

⚡️28. Rushing through a problem/course/book/project

⚡️29. Not being curious.

⚡️30. Sacrificing Mental Health.
⚡️31. Not having fun.

⚡️32. Getting stuck on one technology because of stubbornness.

⚡️33. Lacking self motivation.

⚡️34. Not talking to other developers.

⚡️35. Quiting after failing.
⚡️36. Not building personal projects.

⚡️37. Not showing your projects to others.

⚡️38. Not asking others for feedback.

⚡️39. Trying to learn everything at once.

⚡️40. Blindly following others advise without researching on your own.
⚡️41. Not having a strategy.

⚡️42. Waiting until everything is perfect.

⚡️43. Not learning from one's mistakes.

⚡️44. Feeling dumb.

⚡️45. Comparing yourself to others.
⚡️46. Not reading theory.

⚡️47. Not maintaining a balance in life.

⚡️48. Being a perfectionist.(Conditions apply)

⚡️49. Not accepting uncertainty.

⚡️50. Not finding mentors/dev friends

Don't make these mistakes.
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