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Self-Taught, Final Year, and Honestly Asking for Guidance (opens in new tab)

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Quick context: final-year CS student, self-teaching full-stack via 100xDevs. College isn't teaching me real dev skills, so I'm doing it myself. What I've built so far: Counter App, Todo CRUD API, Users API, Hospital API Books API — fully solo, no help Auth Server with JWT (signup/login/middleware/protected routes) 4 LeetCode done, targeting 50+ by August The actual problem: I understand the concepts. But in interview settings, I freeze and under-explain things I know. Just had a mock intervie...

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