How many of you learned your programming languages from courses/study and how many of you from just grabbing a project and bullshitting your way through until it stuck

Kinda the second?

Every language I have learnt I have learnt by using it. Making a project and as I come across something I don't know I look it up.

Couses at uni sucked.. Dude was reading of the ppt.. Droning off..we didn't even realise he stopped the course to 'yell' at people playing n4s until he shut up for a minute or two afterwards, waiting for them to pack and leave..guess what, they didn't because they didn't know they were thrown out!! 😂😂😂
I failed first (duh) that at seaside (vacation time) I grabbed java book and learned by myself.. .net was a 'fake it till you make it' moment, got the job, my mentor explained a few things, how they do projects, how the code is structured etc.. Now when I face a new language I just use tutorials and docs..

Basics from point 1.
All my apps from point 2.

Second way. Not the best one.
Definitively better when I discover MVC.

Bit of both, did Java in highschool and although my teacher was amazing, that did require a fair bit of self-teaching (because programming) for homework and projects.

Now, I try to do Udemy courses here and there but mostly I learn on the job by biting off more than I can chew and googling my way through it. And asking my senior devs if I'm really stuck

Not really a project, but in school we got programmable graphic calculators. As usual, I tried everything, including this "PROGRAM" thing. I learned more and more about what each of the commands did by just trying it. That was enough to go from "barely got something to print to the screen" to "realised that GOTO should be avoided" and "invented my own games, with graphics, debug screen and performance optimisations" without ever using any other method of learning.

Both!

I do programming like I do drinking, start off well with something stable (tutorials or beer), and then I get into all kinds of weird shit

Mostly the second way. I gave some tutorials a try at some point but that stuff never really stuck.
The first real progress I made was when I decided to go from just reporting bugs in my favorite open source projects to actually trying to patch them myself. And after that of course my first own projects...

Let me add a dimension to that.

My criteria in finding my next project is A will it make money B will have to learn new s*** and C will it force me to grow as a developer

Hell I didn't even know laravel before I started on my latest project

it required me to literally use almost every single part of laravel except maybe the event system. Wait, nope used that too.

Now it makes money for me everyday collecting free and paid users, runs almost itself.

Of course it took two years. I almost had two nervous breakdowns.

I'm a bit insane you know.

@rant1ng I wish I had this kind of time and dedication, I can throw myself into something pretty far and find a way to swim, but I get bored really fucking quickly and just move onto something else.

If I had a partner with some drive to keep me on course I could do some serious damage, as it stands now I can do a little of everything and nothing to completion

@seraphimsystems

partner with me

I just wrote down some 1 page blueprints for about 5 projects that all inter-relate with the one i just mentionned.

They will all make good money, and together they will fuse.

SellOrDie.online
Adtrackz.com
Visual***.com
Poker****Game .com top secret
FunnelTrackz.com

They all need to be developed. I can't do it all myself anymore, I'm taking on partners for projects, 50/50 split.

I might make one open source. These are
strictly small projects that product medium size
healthy 6 figures. If you did just one you'd make
three times the senior dev salary. Easily.

If interested, jonahscellphone at gmail
Laravel PHP is preference but open to other things.