How does one go from learning the basics of programming language then start applying for positions in the space of

So let me share a bit of history about me.

I have worked in Naija as a business developer and sales person for a number of years, I have always had my eye on Programming for a long time, but never dabbled into it, till last year

I was seriously looking at growing my knowledge in IT, when an opportunity was presented to me last year to learn Devops.

Not knowing jack, i dived in and found i was actually understand what was being taught. the course was handled by a school called MyLandmarkTech, had over 900 students from across the world.

It was an eight months course covering Devop, Devops process from Linux, Bash scripting, Git, Marvin, Sonarqube, Nexus, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Kubernettes, Ansible, Grafana, Kops8 etc.

One might say quite a lot

After finishing some classes and trying to learn(try being the operative word), i heard some of my course mates had already started getting jobs, not to be out done. I asked a few friend how they did it and created a new linkedin page and started applying for positions.

Now through out the times i applied and did a few interviews with recruiters and a couple of thing kept coming up i could not answer. Like the below.

"Lack of Experience", "How long have you used", " Whats you understanding of new technologies", "how does your team work with (git, jira, slack-etc).", "what challenges did you solve at your office or for your clients".

Quickly enough i started to understand that i was not up to par with some of what these guys were looking for, which was quite disappointing going through an interviews and not being able to answer most questions.

Fortunately, one recruiter from ireland actually followed up with me and start giving advise on what i needed to do to upgrade, and were to focus.

He explained that he just left a factory job 2 years back to purse a career in tech, thus he understood where i was coming from and how the industry treats people who have the basics and are trying to act like they know way more.

His advise is one reason i an trying to learn front and backend development, based on the current raising trends in web related applications

Why do i bring this story up.

Do not underestimate your little knowledge.

If you can write a language and only have the basic knowledge (6 months to 2 years of experience) to complete 1 or 2 personal or major projects.

Do not let it stop you from applying for an international position on what you have learnt.

When given the opportunity, speak proudly and passionately of what you have done, your journey so far.