Since we are moving into the new era of automation, mobile apps, and post-pandemic life, our reliance on software continues to increase. It is not a bad thing at all; an application or software has the power to make your lives even better. To succeed in such a technological world, businesses need to invest in software development.

Software Development is not just about a mobile application or a website but much more than this. You can get a lot of benefits like either to start your own start-up by building anything you want or sell that software to other companies, Never ending a career,  work remotely, Increase your thinking skills Different Career Paths, Multiple income sources, Life is almost Secure.

As I told you there are lots of benefits to be a software developer. So, Why won’t start it today here I am sharing a complete roadmap to be a successful software developer.

A lot of a path in this journey: front-end developer, back-end developer, full-stack developer, data scientist, software engineering(particular expert in a programming language), Test Engineer, Security Engineer and much more

Hold On take it easy I know for beginners it’s difficult to find out where to start and what would be the best path to become a software developer. But remember one thing you don’t need to expert in all of these skills You just Know the basics of all of these and other things will automatically gain by your efforts, projects, and experience.

“THERE IS NO SINGLE PATH TO BECOMING A SOFTWARE DEVELOPER,

DIFFICULT ROAD LEAD TO BEAUTIFUL DESTINATION”

1.pursue computer science-related fields because bachelor’s degree program in computer science help you to study in-depth theoretical concepts about the principle of software engineering i.e.  Data Structures, Algorithms, Web Technology, Computer Networks, Mathematics, Database System, and a lot of major subjects help a student to have a comprehensive understanding of software engineering and modern approaches of software development.  

But remember one thing all those subjects are not going to give you practical knowledge or working on real-world projects. For a successful developer, you also need to showcase your practical skills to a recruiter.

2. Learn a language: As we need to learn a language to communicate with others as same we also need to learn a programming language so that machine can understand this and perform the respective task. Also, Programming allows us to minimize manual work. With the help of programming, we can make scripts that can help us do our work at a much faster rate.

Programming can change our lives entirely as it can help us create many programs & scripts which can run automatically and can easily accomplish our task in almost no time. There are lots of languages you can learn but it’s not important to learn 3-4 languages simultaneously. start with one language and get well versed in it.  Once you are experienced, you can try your hands on another language. Switching to the next language becomes easier after the first one.

And as a beginner, I would suggest you first go with python because this language is all perfect in its way, and in many fields(GUI gaming, Websites, Web app) we use python language  

And then for object-oriented programming go with c++ or java

And for websites, related interests go with HTML, CSS, javascript, but remember one thing Do language one by one doesn’t start 2-3 languages parallelly it will create a huge problem.

3. Study Data Structure and Algorithm: An algorithm is a step-by-step approach to solve a specific problem, whereas data structure is the way of organizing data. These two concepts help programmers to solve the problem within less amount of time and memory. It is a very major part of programming as a software engineer is always expected to give the best solution for a specific problem taking care of time and memory both and They should know which algorithm and which data structure will be suitable or the best fit for a certain problem. And from this, you will understand how problems are solved in the real world or industries using these two basic building blocks smartly in software.  

4. Enhance your skills because programming is a never-ending journey so your education is not finished. You need to keep practicing and updating yourself with new technologies and software. Stay up to date in this field by joining some communities where you can discuss and share programming surround yourself with experienced developers, watch youtube videos or read blogs of technical kind kinds of stuff and most important rather than wasting your time on videos keep implementing these things do practice more and more use practice sites to build your problem-solving and coding skills. Take part in a coding contest.

5.Build your own software and projects Your practical knowledge is more valuable than academic or textbook knowledge. There is no point to learn all the concepts if you don’t know how to implement them in real-world projects.

To improve your skills by building software and projects. And by this, you can contribute to some open-source projects and also showcase it to your recruiters and also your work as a freelancer and make money.