[bashmelek]

I do often feel like a Lost Programmer.

C# is my Blub. I use Visual Studio (and not Visual Studio Code). I also use some T-SQL and JavaScript, and sometimes C++ on the weekends. In all of these, my understanding is still rather shallow. And for my day job, and most of my hobbies, it works.

But there is a definite next level I haven’t pierced, the level of “real programmers”. I want to understand the code I see on GitHub, even contribute. I want to be capable of more. But it is hard when I can’t even tell what I’m seeing, when I’m just trying to Make It.

[BinaryIgor]

Keep the curiousity up and learn your Fundamentals - things that do not change that often and on which most of our tools and frameworks are built. Dive deep into OSes, networks - build your own TCP and/or HTTP server, assembly and the machine code - how the CPU and memory works? As well as some algos and data structures for sure. These few things cover most of it ;)