Building your support system

Stage 3 · Lesson 4 of 6

Peers online

Peers who study and build with you

If your university or city has few people learning what you are learning, online peers can fill the gap. Course forums, Discord servers, open source communities and study streams connect you with people at the same stage across the world. To make it real connection, not only scrolling: show up in the same channels regularly, help others with what you know, share your progress, and move good conversations into a voice call or pair session. Some online friendships become close and long-lasting.

Common traplurking: reading for months without ever posting. People cannot connect with someone who is invisible, so say hello and ask one question.

A question to check yourself and an AI practice session come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it

Resources for this stage

Start with

Practise

  • Student hackathons, online and in person, to build with others in a weekend

  • Sefism's own community: find study partners and people at your stage

Keep handy

  • Share progress and find developers learning the same things

Also worth your time

Struggling right now? If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, contact local emergency services or a crisis line: Find a helpline (any country), Umang (Pakistan), Tele-MANAS, 14416 (India).

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