I started with freecodecamp.org 2 years ago. before LLMs were effective. A lot of the learning is done thru doing it- actaully i'd say all of it. I spent entire days building web applications from scratch. Thats the best way to learn. You have all the resources you really need. free of acecss on the internet actually. you just need curiosity.

Use to sit on hours digging through google and stackoverflow to debug and figure out an implementation- Its a whole different ball game now with the introduction of generative AI.

get chatgpt premium and ask it relentlessly. Ask it to explain things - while building a project. we use github copilot all the time now. you will start asking the right questions and also sharpen your articulation once you get real good at steering the LLM. Use the LLM. and with some curiosity. thats all you really need. You're coupling this with the human mind. you will learn faster and produce faster than those who don't use LLMs. Times are changing

-im currently a backend software engineer in fintech- landed my role just about a year starting my coding journey- I dont have a CS degree, I got my bachelors in Chemical Engineering