Is it possible to become a Java Senior Developer if you study for six months or a year for 2-3 hours a day?

Question

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My dream is to become a Java Senior Developer, write applications for android, etc. I'm not some kind of student, I'm only 14 years old, and I would like to study Java, but there is no money for courses.
And now I have been studying for like a month for 2-3 hours a day, reading books, listening to podcasts, lectures, watching manuals, etc.
The main question is only one: is it possible to become a Senior developer in just six months - a year of such training?

Answer 1

To become a senior, you need 8-10 years of commercial experience.

Answer 2

no, in half a year - a full-time year (8 working hours a day on real projects), you can become a Senior/Middle junior at best,
this is primarily about responsibility for (people/technologies/solutions/features) + great experience and a strong technical background , here we are not talking about work experience
"I have been working as a web developer for 10 years, I am a senior" - this is only in "web office" LLC with 10 developers

Answer 3

Good afternoon.
You can become a junior or trainee developer in six months - a year. But, middle or senior - no. Since in order to become a senior or middle you need to work on real projects, gain experience and be responsible, as a colleague noted.
You should also understand that knowledge of one language is not enough for work. For example Java. (although given the fact that you want to become an android developer, then most likely you need not only Java, but more Kotlin). You also need to be proficient in other languages. For example, SQL (own ORM). Know about http, about ip, etc. Know about DI. Perhaps even master design patterns. Own xml, json.

My dream is to become a Java Senior Developer, write applications for android, etc.

For android, you need more Kotlin, but knowledge of Java will not be superfluous.

Is it possible to become a Senior developer in just half a year - a year of such training?

Middle, Senior - no.
For half a year of training you can become a trainee || junior. Usually, by the way, the courses last. For example, Java Core - 3 months (2-3 times a week) and Java Enterprise (3 months) or Android (3-4 months).
In general, you can do the following: learn the language, then take a training from Epam (like free). After that, you can get a job there as a trainee and climb the stairs up.

Answer 4

One of my favorite sayings is "10,000 hours to mastery".
If you practice 2 hours a day, 300 days a year is 600 hours a year. Accordingly, ~16-17 years old at this pace.
But, as the Chinese proverb says, the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. At 14, 2-3 hours a day of programming is a good start. Before graduation, it can turn out to "gain" about 2500 hours. With due diligence, this is a good start for further learning programming.
One more piece of advice - learn English as well as Java. A programmer in the modern world is nowhere without him.

Answer 5

I became a senior, read books for half a year, watched YouTube for two months and listened to podcasts for another month, now I work in a large company on high load projects (I can’t name them according to NDA)
Good luck!

Answer 6

It is forbidden

Answer 7

How commentators like to complicate everything, just to show off their experience) (this is a joke, but, as you know, in every joke ...) I
suspect that Senior is simply an independent development.
In many respects, everything depends on the speed of perception of information (and it is different for different people), but in general, for six months or a year, studying for 2-3 hours a day, it is quite possible to master the language at a level sufficient to independently write an application "from and to ". True, as you correctly noted, one language is not enough, except for Java / Kotlin, SQL, XML, http, maybe something else will be needed. But all this will also be mastered in the process, you yourself will understand when you need it.
In general, if you like the direction - go for it, study, do not retreat when it seems that you do not understand anything, take breaks and continue to study. And in time you will reach your goal.

Answer 8

To be honest, the author of the question is directly genuine respect. A person at the age of 14 devotes 2-3 hours a day to moving towards goals. He generally has goals at 14! You can’t
become a senior
, but what you can become if you continue at such a pace is a person who instantly finds a job after university and increases salary by 50 percent every year

Answer 9

If "for 2-3 hours a day, reading books, listening to podcasts, lectures, watching manuals, etc.", then you will not even become a junior. Many have already answered here, but no one has written that the most important thing is to write code! The more you write code, the faster you gain experience. It is clear that without theoretical training one cannot just take it and start writing, but without practice, theory is nothing! It's like sex :)
Let me throw in a couple more tips from above - don't strive for beautiful titles like Senior, at least at this stage. Take simple problems on algorithms on the Internet, for example, write a bubble sort of an array, then something more complicated, for example, write some kind of reminder, even if it is a purely console application. Then you can move on...
But you are on the right track! Dare!!!

Answer 10

Came from Howdy :)