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The Next-Generation Developer Path: From First Line of Code to First Job

TL;DR — Five stages turn a software creator into a job-ready developer: experimenting with AI, attending a beginner-friendly MLH hackathon for structured immersion, building solo projects, curating a portfolio (pinned GitHub repos, READMEs as case studies, DEV writeups, and open source contributions

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