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Want to venture to become a entry level developer but not sure how to transition from where I am.

I’m 20 years old and currently living paycheck to paycheck working as a field technician for Best Buy. (Paycheck to paycheck because parents moved away and I had to take over the house so I have an extra 1250$ bill every month). I’m currently in the process of being hired as a Help Desk Specialist mainly as I feel it’s a step in my dream career and I’ll finally be able to save money. I have about half a year done for a associates in programming and development, I have a few networking certifications under my belt. Comptia, A+ etc. I can’t afford to go back to school and really don’t have the time already working 50-60 hour weeks. On the side I’m working through a java boot camp and I’m about 40% done with. My question is how do I properly transition into being ready for a development role. I have a fair understanding of object oriented languages mainly Java and C#. 
Thank ya for the responses ahead of time.
gpt
Start building a portfolio site. GitHub is a good place to start on that front. Then start building web apps and adding them to your site. I’m a self-taught act 2 developer who left the restaurant world for the web. Just build. Give people something to look at that displays your capabilities. Someone will hire you, like someone took a chance on me.