I tried to become a web developer in a week | By Josef Cruz | February 2025

Programming

Here is what happened

Everyone has the desire to radically change their life. To stop going to unloved work and do something valid. One day, I woke up and decided: “I will become a web developer and start making a lot of money.”

I read some thoughtful articles, I chose a programming language (spoiler: it turned out to be JavaScript) and I decided to learn it in a week. Surrounded by a bunch of books and opening the specifications of the browser, I tried to understand what was written.

At first, everything seemed very interesting and simple, and I have already seen a cloudless future on the seaside with a laptop on my knees and a cocktail in hand. With each new subject, dreams have evaporated and only unstructured information remained in my head.

If I tried to show the will, bring together the internal reserves of the body and pile up a few chapters, the gray cells categorically refused to perceive anything.

After a few weeks of intensive download of new knowledge, the brain could no longer face the abundance of information. It turned out that I had not mastered the “Hello World” production by myself. Why did it happen? The reason is commonplace: no one told me how to study complex equipment correctly.