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Leonard Simolo
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Five steps to become a software developer in 2025.

Step 1: start learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript right now, there's no better place to start for a beginner than with these languages.
So go on YouTube, there are tens of thousands of tutorials.
Pick a tutorial, and start learning right away.
Step 2: learn about different, uh, software architectures and different software types.
Specifically learn about things like what is front-end development, back-end development, full stack development, and rest APIs.
Knowing this will give you an overview of the whole field of software development, um, and it will also give you good guidance as to what direction you need to go and which languages you need to learn, right?
Step 3:pick a language now, a back-end language, now pick one of four languages, right?
You can go and break your head with lots of different languages, but the four most popular languages in the world are Java, Titan, C, Sharp, and PHP.
Pick one of these.
It's not important which one of these you learn, because most likely the language you learn, uh, is not gonna be the language you use at work.
Or even if you start using a language at work, there's a good strong chance that you will need to incorporate another language or learn another language with that. So learn one of these four languages. Learn them thoroughly.
Step number four, learn the framework for the language of your choice. So if you learn Java, for example, the best framework you can learn for Java is Spring Boot. If you learn Python, learn something like Jango, C Sharp, and Microsoft.Net framework. There is only one framework for C Sharp, PHP, the framework of choice for most developers is Letterville.Learn this framework thoroughly.
And step 5, start building solutions. Talk to development is not about your theoretical knowledge, it's about what you can build. So build as many solutions as you can, and don't forget to deploy those apps to a get-up.
And then when you are applying for a job, make sure that the link to your, your, uh, GitHub repository is on your CV so prospective employers will see what you have built.
They, they don't wanna know what you know. They wanna see what you can build.
And that's how you become a software developer in 2025.100%
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