Can I get all my stuff back after a reset even if it hasn't been backed up for months?

First of all I wanted to change my passcode. I knew the number I wanted to change it to, so I changed it.
so later when I tried to get back into my iPad, the so called "new" passcode didn't work. I tried variations in case I somehow managed to stuff it up in the process, but I've diabelled it so many times it reset. (I thought I'd turned off that reset button option anyway).  It asked me to set it up again, and I'd already done some googling before hand that said marking it as a new iPad would allow you to set a new passcode and you'd just be able to use iCloud to get back your stuff. (Even my dad said it, but he's not all knowledgable about the iPad -_-) I already knew my iCloud wasn't reliable.
Now I'm in, and i have no clue how to get my iPad back to how it was yesterday. It reminded me just yesterday that my iCloud storage hadn't been backed up in 23 weeks, and that it's basically full. It said the last backup was in December last year, though at the time I hadn't even used up near to all of my storage.  My family are of no help whatsoever.
Somehow, if I hadn't tried to change the stupid passcode yesterday, all this wouldn't have happened. So how do I get this iPad back to normal? And WHY was the area for typing in the passcode (after I'd changed it yesterday) now a box that you could type in as many numbers as possible, instead of dots? (This reset iPad has dots)

If you only have iCloud's basic, free 5 GBs of storage, if you had more than this on your iPad, chances are high that your backups to iCloud weren't a complete iPad backup, anyhow. And since this has been full for 23 weeks means that you may end up only retrieving a fraction of your current data that you had on your iPad, if what you had on your iCloud backup contained anything that may still have been on your iPad.
This is just one of the reasons I do not like Cloud storage services.
The best and most reliable backup of your iPad is to use a computer with Apple iTunes installed on it and connect your iPad to your computer and let iTunes syc and backup all of your iPad's data.
I an afraid without a clear, comprehensive backup, whatever is saved to your iCloud account is all you are going to be able to retrieve.
If you have purchased anything from IOS App Store and/or iTunes on your iPad, all of iTunes and iOS App Store purchases will have to be redownload and reinstalled.
You won't get charged, again, for the purchases you had already made.
Sorry.

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