What do you thing of this workshop?

jscomplete.com/ref/49eca80d30dcd859871239c240a60a…

I want to become a full-stack web developer but I'm kind of lost. I started last year and now I have 1 year of experience making small projects freelancing using tools like PHP for backend and a little bit of JS. But now I want to enter the gate. I want to make this my passion.

Can you help me with some suggestion and some tips some projects ideas :)

Thanks.

My number one rule: I'll never pay for learning courses

Madhankumar Never in my life did I spend any money on learning materials for CS. I never even owned a book on programming or any CS principle or tech. Everything you need is available online for free. You just have to take some time and search for it. Talk to people. Gain experience.

Ok, what I didn't mention is that I joined the CS course at school and did a complete B.E., which included 50% CS (and 50% electrical engineering). Tbh, studying in Germany can be free.. However, imho, CS is a topic you still can learn online and the degree is mostly to have a certificate for my knowledge and endurance.

Marco Alka I agree with you. Actually I have shared the things which I have followed. Talking to people will definitely help to gain some knowledge. Thanks for your reply.

Madhankumar The only things I'd actually pay for are really really specialist stuff that you can't find on the internet. That's the only time. I also don't come from a CS background. In the age where information is readily available and there's so much it, there is no need to actually pay for many things, all you need to do is be able to google.

I don't know about the course content. But I always recommend you to spend money for your learning. Buy some books or get a month access in frontendmaster, Treehouse, pluralsight. Many good authors are associated with them.

The course you posted is missing many essential topics to FSWD. I don't recommend it as an introduction, but rather as an extension to your previous knowledge.

The next thing is that as a beginner, you should stay clear of frameworks. Frameworks come and go, but if you learn frameworks instead of the basics, you will always run behind everyone else, because you have to learn the framework whereas a vanilla developer just reads a few docs and gets started hacking. You might want to read this FAQ to get some answers ;)

I recommend taking a look at my old list of topics (Full-Stack 101) you definitely need for FSWD (it is rather tech-agnostic). I recommend starting with the higher-level topics, like programming a website on PHP and adding a SQL DB and then learning lower-level stuff (like reading HTTP RFCs) later on to get better optimization and feature levels :)

As for projects, try to create a portfolio homepage for yourself, where you present yourself and add any project you finish. Add a blog which automatically posts your new blog-entries to social media sites and communities (Twitter, Facebook, Hashnode, dev.to, HN, etc.)

thank you so mutch for this i really need it :) , but as i mentioned i have a one year exep in web dev and also i have a master degree in system engineering so 5 years programming using diffrent languages , now what i'm lokking for is a guide like a road map for fullstack i know basics of frameworks like react angular and vue and they are all look the same :p ,what i want is a guide . :)

Baraka Larbi Doesn't change the statements in the FAQ. Stay clear of frameworks. I still haven't learned all the details of JS, even though I have been creating websites and web-apps for nearly 10 years.

As for a guide, I don't have one. And I discourage looking for one. You might have different interests, hence don't need certain things a guide tells you to learn. Also, a guide defines a set order in which you should work on topics, however, from my experience, you should rather learn stuff when you need it and not just for the sake of it and later on re-learn everything when you finally need it. Just go to the list, start a project, tick the tech you want to learn about and use and see how it works out :)

A personal homepage is a wonderful place to toy around with things, because it usually is not critical and opens up many ways to extend it (e.g. add music streaming, add a file-storage interface, add a hidden mini-game as easter-egg, etc.).

Another project idea might be a HTML5 browser-game (Lotgd clone, Travian clone, Super Mario clone,...). It needs interaction on the client and server part. You most-likely have to define a DB structure and talk to the DB server. You will need security and logging and so on. It's great and very rewarding when you see people playing your game!

If you are not into games and think your personal site is done for now, try going to GitHub and see which interesting projects are missing a website. Create a website and send it upstream (via PR). They might even accept it and be thankful. In case it is for a bigger project, it is likely that they correct and improve your code by reviewing it, so you can learn from that experience!

The most important part is: Just do it! Practice. Do social networking. Read docs and standards. There is no shortcut ;)

thank you :) u'r awesome

Thread

What do you thing of this workshop?

Responses(3)

Recent threads

Search Hashnode

What do you thing of this workshop?

Responses(3)

Recent threads