when I was in my school, it was my dream to get selected to an IT related degree . So I work hard in my advanced level examination and got the opportunity to enter my university. Now I am an undergraduate in a state university in Sri lanka and I am following an IT related degree. At my first days in university life I didn't have any idea about IT carrier. Then I tried to enhance my knowledge with the help of different resources. I followed many related courses in online learning platforms such as Udemy,coursera...etc. Step by step it felt that I am growing up. Many youtube tutorials also helped me. There are somany valuable youtube tutorials so we shouldn't miss that great chance of having them free of charge. I participated in hackothens to gain some experiences and to polish my skills. I highly believed that participation is more important than winning. Here are some certificates I got from participating different hackothons.
I worked on some projects to polish my skills. I recommend you to do mini projects at the initial stage and step by step try to do huge ones. It will be an great assist to you. At first days it was a big challenge for me and I learned technologies such as react,node,mysql through online resources. After doing such kind of projects I gained a huge advantage and huge experiences. To recover from errors, I got the help from github, stackoverflow and other online resources. sometimes I posted my problems in such platforms and got the help from others. Discussing my issues with them help me to understand more and more. So according to my opinion there are so many paths to develop our IT carrier. I think this chance is mainly in IT field so don't miss it and grab the chance.