42 Common core
Learning to learn
After passing the “Piscine” selection month, I completed 42's common core in 13 months: 15 projects, 4 of them in teams, and more than five languages picked up along the way.
Each project meant learning a tool or concept from scratch — from Libft and Minishell in C to Cub3D's raycasting engine, an IRC server in C++, and the ft_transcendence final. You learn to work in a team, self-teach, and take on hard problems.