How to master a Programming language?

In this article I’m going to tell you a few steps that you need to follow and stick to in order to master a particular language.

1. Select a programming language as per your requirement. Something you think will help you in today’s market.
2. Get your fundamentals clear. Start a course, make a roadmap, make a mental picture of how much you need to finish and by when and progress steadily. Don’t go to the next video without completely understanding the current.
3. If you have a doubt that you might not be a100% clear about that topic, you should listen to your intuition. Do your research, check documentations, check other YouTube videos besides your course and then come back. You will be satisfied and confident about moving forward.
4. Learning programming is straightforward but not easy, once you lag in a concept, it adds up. The problems pile up and after a point you reach a deadlock where you don’t understand anything. That’s why master the present.
5. Slowly move from Basic to advanced topics after you are sure about your fundamentals. Try to know most of the common features in the programming language.

You don’t need to master all the features but you should at least know they exist.

6. Practice, practice and more practice.

The more you code, the more you master the language. It’s the same as a spoken language. If you are learning a new language you can’t learn without actually speaking after translating it in your brain. In the same way, you can’t learn without thinking of a logic and then putting it in code.

7. Build minor and Major projects. The best and the most efficient way of learning a programming language is by building projects.

This tells you which concepts are your weakness and what you need to work on. What else you can implement from outside the box.

Projects boost your creativity and you can just explore your abilities.

8. Help people on stack overflow or follow people’s questions. You will learn a lot from it. Believe me, it works.

If someday you are stuck, you might already have an idea of what could be the issue.

In Conclusion,

• Basics
• Advanced
• New concepts
• More research
• More projects
• More troubleshooting
  Repeat the last 4 steps

And you will achieve proficiency In one language like never before and you will be confident in your domain the next time you walk in a tech interview on that language.

That's all from my side, thanks for reading.

Happy hacking!