Hello! Is anyone in the Collierville or Memphis TN area? I’m interested in finding a tutor. My goal is to become a full stack developer. 
Private tutoring is very expensive. I recommend posting questions here instead so you can get free help.
I appreciate the recommendation. I understand free is better but I really want to find some local resources if they exist.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the place to look for hiring someone.
Maybe not, but there could be someone near me that may want to learn with me or know of a group I could join, etc. 
I recently completed a short web dev fundamentals bootcamp (more of a participation cert) and am now going through the courses/certs here, but I need someone to give me a pathway, extra projects, deadlines or some kind of extra accountability. Even though the bootcamp wasn’t what I was expecting, investing in my learning helped me stick with it and gave me more motivation.
I’ve googled what to do and have started and restarted the same beginners courses prior to the bootcamp. (tutorial hell that everyone talks about) I keep hitting walls I’d like to learn to break through. Always working on a project is another recommendation. What projects does one work on and how do you progress to the next appropriate one for your skill level?
Honestly, if you have already done some work like that, someone giving you a set of things to do is not as helpful as you just trying to make something. It doesn’t have to be some earth shattering project, just something that you can work on, make mistakes on, and have to try to rebuild to recover from those mistakes.
Some people will try to sell you on a ‘right’ way, but honestly, the most important thing to to write code, made mistakes, and fix those mistakes, rinse and repeat.
Hi @bre_acosta !
Welcome to the forum!
I don’t live in tennessee, but I would suggest looking for meetups on sites like meetup.com or eventbrite or other sites like that.
Hitting walls is the best part of programming because it does force you to learn more and challenges you to become a better developer. As for how to break through those walls, I would suggest asking question more. Asking for help on places like the forum here is very beneficial because others will be able to identify the issues you are going through and will help unblock you.
That’s because it is the only way to become a professional developer.
When you take an idea and implement it, that is the best learning experience you will ever get.
Reason being is because it will force you to break down the problem and try to figure out how to build one piece at a time. Throughout that process, you will make hundreds of mistakes and take dozens of wrong turns. You will encounter tons of error messages and get frustrated and be forced to look up documentation, stack overflow, ask questions etc until you solve that problem. But that process will help you level up tremendously.
As mentioned earlier, the type of projects you build won’t matter right now. The goal is to learn how to problem solve and break through those barriers you mentioned earlier.
Think about problems you encounter on a daily basis where you wish there was a solution for and build that.
You can also google “good projects to build for developers” and there will be tons of lists on the topic. Pick a random project from any list and jump into it. Don’t look at any walk through tutorials or source code for any of those projects. Break down the project into small parts and tackle one part at a time. Ask questions when you get stuck. Once you are finished, ask for reviews and then build something else.
The road to becoming a developer is not an easy one but 100% doable. Just take it one day at a time and build like crazy 
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Hi! Thank you for the warm welcome and helpful advice! I’m no stranger to breaking things and error codes, haha. Getting pretty good at them.