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Published on <a href="https://blog.prototypr.io/wondering-if-youre-a-real-developer-yet-try-making-a-bucket-list-281275482155?source=rss----eb297ea1161a---4">| Prototyping: From UX to Front End &mdash; Medium</a> Ginny Fahs <img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*dvb-TTKCVE-GPWt9d2VOrQ.jpeg">
One of the biggest obstacles I’ve encountered in becoming a developer is proving to myself that I am one.
Imposter syndrome — the ever-present fear of being a fraud — plagues beginners of all kinds. I’ve felt it before: After running a marathon I couldn’t consider myself a runner (I’d been running five times a week for years!). And though I’ve spent over 60 cumulative days backpacking, some of them as a certified wilderness trip leader, I still hesitate before declaring myself an “outdoorsy person.”
With coding, the imposter syndrome was even worse. I had quit my job and spent my savings on bootcamp, staking my career to learn this new skill. I was starting from square 1 (or, I later learned, square 0!). And as I coded, day after day, it became more and more evident just how much I didn’t know.
I felt pretty hopeless. And as my list of “Programming Concepts to Learn” grew longer, I decided to start a second list: a list of things real developers do. I imagined the realest developer I could, and made a list of things she would have done in the past. Then I started working through the list, one task at a time.
Now, exactly 8 months later, I’ve completed every item. I have definitive proof that I’m a developer! And I’m more confident identifying as such.
This list is not meant to be exhaustive — being a developer means different things to different people, and the list below is merely one example. But without further ado…
<h3>Things Real Developers Do: My Bucket List</h3>
<ul>
<li>Open the computer’s terminal</li>
<li>Use a text editor (bonus points if you have a specific reason for choosing it)</li>
<li>Use some keyboard shortcuts</li>
<li>Write tests for your code</li>
<li>Help another engineer with something they’re having trouble with</li>
<li>Attend an event about engineering</li>
<li>Follow developers you admire on social media</li>
<li>Read a book about coding</li>
<li>Open your browser console</li>
<li>Get data from an API</li>
<li>Hide API keys from the public</li>
<li>Post a question on Stack Overflow</li>
<li>Push code to GitHub or GitLab or BitBucket</li>
<li>Speak about something engineering-related at an event</li>
<li>Complete a technical interview</li>
<li>Participate in a hackathon</li>
<li>Deploy a project</li>
<li>Ship your project to a store (App Store, Play Store, Chrome Store, Alexa Skills Store, so many stores!)</li>
<li>Contribute to open source</li>
<li>Get paid to code</li>
<li>When people ask what you do, respond saying you’re a developer 🙂</li>
</ul>
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Wondering If You’re A Real Developer Yet? Try Making A Bucket List

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