Beginning I'm a self taught dev. I am writing this piece of article to self taught devs, but I.T's or computer science student / expert can read it too. Life as a self taught developer, is not pretty easy as it seems but what keeps us going is the passion, I mean the energy that comes from within. Have a direction or a goal and be motivated First of all, people get exposed to tech videos, news, articles, movies and other software engineering materials that may cause them to be like; "hey! this gonna be quite exciting stuff to try", others too would be like; "Derm! I wanna be able to hack my school's system or work place database or anything that runs on a server or machine", "I would like to make lots of money like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg amongst others". Well it all good to get on board with the growing tech universe. But just before getting on board as a software developer, ethical hacker, data analyst or any area in the field. ...