As I mentioned in my first article, I wanted to write about this subject. I wanted to both tell a little about myself and share some of my experiences. Lets start.

When I entered the top 200 in the university exam in 2016, I did not have many alternatives other than law school as the department to be preferred. I entered Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law with a full scholarship.

We returned to our homes when covid came out in the 3rd grade. During this period, I realized that I did not want to be a lawyer anymore.

While thinking about what I can do with my own efforts, I started to be interested in software development when I thought that I had been intertwined with technology for years.

 through the resources I found on the internet, but it was left very sketchy with the intensity of the midterm and final exams. This process went like this until I graduated from university.

After graduating from law school, I started my law internship like many graduates. In the second semester of my one-year internship, I decided that I definitely did not want to do this job. Being a lawyer was not a profession for me. I decided to learn software development again.

This time, after doing a lot of research, I decided to become a front end developer. Of course, I started learning 

 first. I took a course from Udemy. I learned a great deal of 

"You can't learn software development just by watching videos!"

I would also like to point out by the way. You can't learn software development just by watching videos. Probably many people who have tried to learn software realize that this is wrong. The most important thing is to applying what you learn. It would be more correct to act with the logic of make it up as you go along.

Anyway, back to our topic. Later, when I felt that I couldn't get very far with udemy courses, I went to reddit etc. As a result of my research on platforms, I learned about the site called 

 site is the best web development platform I've personally seen. While it's a full stack tutorial from start to finish, the main focus is around 

 is very different from conventional software courses. The trainings are completely written and each training ends by teaching the logic of the event by directing it to the documentation or written articles, and giving tasks by saying, "Now do this project" without holding the student's hand.

"Even if the best trainers in the world teach software to a person for hours, even if it is late or long, they cannot teach that person the valuable things that a person will learn while doing the project that he started by saying that I will do it."

You start by making simple websites from the very first lessons and you do not make these websites by writing the codes of the person in the video on your own computer. This has been a completely mind-blowing method for me. Of course, progress can be made by watching videos, I still watch videos when I see it necessary, and watching videos is not wrong, but the real thing that teaches the software development is to implementing it 

Most of the projects on my github right now are projects I've done through 

. Every project boasts different things about your JavaScript.

 enough? It has a clear answer. No it is not. Even if the world's best trainers teach software to a person for hours, even if it is late or long, they cannot teach that person the valuable things that a person will learn while doing the project that he started by saying that I will do it.

By the way, my internship is over and I didn't get the license for a long time because I didn't want to be a lawyer. I completely devoted myself to learning software. I have completed most of the tutorials on the website.

The tutorials on the site are finished after teaching 

 at the introductory level and a few projects. In fact, we can say that it lays a good foundation. But only that much rest is up to you to improve yourself.

Since I realized this, I drew a path for a few months when I was wondering what I could learn. First of all, I decided to make a project with what I learned. I searched the internet for free to use APIs. I looked at the state management libraries I could use. I embarked on a project of my own and completed it within a few weeks.

Applying what you learn immediately is the most important thing that makes it permanent. I've been trying to follow this motto since the moment I started learning software.

 frameworks. However, there is something else that I should mention before that.

It is a non-profit academy that provides Unity and Flutter trainings, established within the framework of the cooperation of many organizations, which is only in its second year. Well, if you ask what it has to do with me, yes, I was accepted to the academy last December by being selected as one of 2000 trainees among 35.000 people.

I am taking Dart and Flutter trainings within the scope of this academy, which has enabled me to meet very valuable people and teachers. The trainings are still ongoing. Not only software trainings, but also entrepreneurship and google project management courses are also provided. There are even English courses for programmers.

I also want to say this. The academy is just a platform that guides the individual. It's not a university. As always, it is up to the individual to learn something or not, to improve himself.

"If software is all the water in the world, the front end is the Pacific Ocean."

I've been spending a few months learning 

 frameworks and building projects. At the same time, training in the academy continues. In other words, although I do not work at a job, my days are quite busy.

If software is all the water in the world, the front end is the Pacific Ocean. There really is a lot to learn. 

, although they have similar logic, there are also many frameworks and libraries such as 

A new one comes out every day. There are libraries for even the simplest things you can think of. Let's take a look at the React state management libraries, for example:

There are many more, the count is endless. Or will you choose ui library. You can choose from dozens of libraries 😅.

"It's like you've beaten the last boss of a game, the game's theme music is playing in the background, the credits are flowing slowly down..."

When I look back at the last year, I sometimes think about what I could have done better. I think I would have started learning much earlier.

I've probably never done anything I've been happier with in my life. There was an etch-a-sketch project at 

. I was able to construct the project in a short time as I would do something like this in my head. I may not have gotten that pleasure from anything else before. It's like you've beaten the last boss of a game, the game's theme music is playing in the background, the credits are flowing slowly down...

In conclusion, this is my story in a nutshell. Of course, there are many things that can be explained and I plan to explain it in more detail over time, but I wanted to make an introduction.

In this article, I explain how I became interested in web development after law school, what I did on this path and why I made such a decision.

My Journey: From Lawyer To Web Developer

The first code written by almost everyone who has tried to learn how to code is to print 

 to the console. I chose to give this name to my first blog post. Anyway, welcome to webdeveren!

My name is Mehmet Eren Çelik, I am 24 years old. I am a lawyer who graduated from Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law in 2021. Yes, you heard right, I am a law school graduate. So how did I start learning software development?

This is the subject of another article, but briefly, although I have been interested in technology since my childhood, when my university score was high, I succumbed to the advice of choosing law school, like every other student, with high job opportunities.

In June 2022, I set myself the goal of working in the software industry professionally. Since then, I've been developing myself in web development full time.

I'm doing projects as if I'm working 8 am to 5 pm and trying to learn new things. There is hardly a day I don't write code or read Documentation.

As of December 2022, I am taking Dart and Flutter couses as one of the 2000 trainees selected from 35000 applications at 

I also plan to write a longer post about the academy later.

First of all, my goal was to make a portfolio site that would serve as a CV in a classic way and show what I can do.

Then I decided to write a blog because I think the most important way to make learning permanent is to share. Even if no one will read it, my aim is to improve myself.

While I am writing this post, I am not a developer who has managed to enter the IT sector yet, but I think I have come a long way. Since I am aware that there are many friends from different backgrounds who want to learn software development, I wanted to share my own experiences.

I am confident that I will get my first job soon. Because I think I've found myself, albeit late, and I want to do what I love. 

It's my goal to write as much as I can about technology and web development, but I'm going to get into personal topics from time to time.

For example, the first post in my mind will be how I decided to learn software development as a lawyer, what I did, and what I should do better.

I plan to write shortlists about the courses I get from time to time, the communities I'm in, and the technologies I use.

We have a long road, our excitement is high, we have youth!"

Hello, welcome to webdeveren. In this first blog post, I will talk about myself a little and talk about what I plan to write about on the blog.

Hi, my name is

Mehmet Eren Çelik

I am an enthusiastic and self-taught front-end developer dedicated to creating beautiful and functional websites.

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