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hold on just a second holding what's that hold this like this for a little second like this yeah you know what that is no it's your play button don't worry buddy it's a play button it's a play button thank you so much everyone because of you this channel has hit this huge milestone of a hundred thousand twenty thousand a hundred twenty thousand subscribers so i'm here to celebrate that with a little q a i also wanna send a special thanks out to my github sponsors who made this possible this is a new thing that i've added recently so if you'd like to support my mission to create helpful content links are in the description below alright on to the questions oh kenneth rodis is asking why is a channel's name coder coder i had no idea how to name it and i'm kind of terrible at naming things so i just wrote this really long list down and notebook of like possible names so let's let's go on a little journey back in time names web dev journey not bad better web developer skillful coder better dev better coder life practical web dev that's a pretty good name dwelling on dev dev reflection irrational dev better off dev well-rounded web dev coder catalyst ooh that was actually kind of cool i'm kind of having some regret now i went through a lot of names finally on coder coder because it's kind of like i'm helping coders code so it's like a coder coder this question is from shiv bond hey please launch your vs code theme as a 100k gift sweat smile pray hands actually i have already launched the vs code theme so if you go to the visual studio marketplace or in your vs code the extension the extension marketplace type in coder coder and you should see my theme code recorder dark pop up okay this question is from srab negy not a question but just want to say that you look like smriti mandana an indian female cricketer i actually get this comment a lot and since so many different people seem to think i look like this cricket player i did look up the photo of this uh cricketer and i don't think i look that much like her but who knows maybe we're related but have you ever seen them in the same room at the same time paula fernandez tevez is asking do you know how to play an instrument greetings from peru i would like to be a front developer awesome um i can play guitar i used to play violin and yeah that's pretty much it this is from dennis at le code alchemist question what advice would you give someone trying to master css is it necessary to learn things like floats or just start with modern css i've been struggling a lot just need some direction yeah mastering css takes a long time and to be completely honest there are properties in css that i don't know or use float is still a very good useful property but only for certain things like when you have an image and you're wrapping text around it that's probably the only time i would use float i would learn float because it is still useful but definitely don't use it for layout stick with flexbox and grid for that here's my question how do you learn to know when to use the various css properties the amount of properties in css is intimidating and i'm afraid when i want to start my own project i'll get stuck in not knowing what to use when you're starting out it is good just to start with the basics you know like the fonts colors position things like that one way you can learn is by studying existing code so code that you know is probably built with best practice if you use any framework like bootstrap you can study the css that they use and see how to do it yourself which frameworks would you suggest for someone who has only used html css and vanilla javascript so far so i'm not sure if you're asking about css frameworks or javascript frameworks but for javascript frameworks since they're really popular i would recommend either react review angular not so much maybe right now but i think it depends also on your end goal so if you're trying to apply for jobs then i would see what frameworks tend to be used in your area because it does vary by geographic areas sometimes and as far as css frameworks i think bootstrap is probably a good choice i know tailwind has gotten really popular recently yeah definitely only move on to using those frameworks after you've learned at least the basics of html css and javascript okay this question is from digital tech how to earn money online from coding there's a lot of ways you can earn money online from coding one is to get a remote job at a company you can also be a freelance coder so finding your own clients and then working with them online my friend florin pop has an ebook about um 10 plus plus ways you can earn money coding so we'll probably link to that in the description or something all right heba is asking are tools like wix and wordpress killing front end development they are not and the reason for that is let's say you have a client for freelance you have a client who wants you to make a wix site well there's a reason that they're asking you to make the wix site for them and it's because they are not tech savvy at all even if they do know how to set up a wix or wordpress site inevitably down the line they're going to want to add some kind of feature or change the color of the title or whatever it is and they have no clue how to do that themselves and they need to hire a web developer to do that for them so honestly wix and wordpress are great site building tools i think they're good for freelance options just because you're not building everything from scratch but yeah it's it's not at all killing front-end web development at all this question is from anna uri how do i create a portfolio if i've had no work experience it's a really good question and i do get asked that quite a bit even if you don't have work work experience like a paying client or anything you can still build demo websites and put that in your portfolio and show the prospective employers because all they really care about is that you have the skills to build a website so i'd recommend sites like frontendmentor.io also codementor dev projects they're good places to find free projects for you to build and you can add those to your portfolio let's see this question is from kenya congratulations from kenya i love your time-lapse video when you're implementing the ui sorry i have to go there's a line chasing after my sheep see when i'm done negotiating with him oh i hope you got your sheet back from the line okay this question is from stephanie lynn what would you recommend for practice or gaining knowledge outside of small coding practices should i practice html and css is there any basic knowledge that i should know for front-end jobs that aren't typically covered a couple tips for this is when you're learning from a tutorial or something i would not just watch it the whole way through but kind of pause when the teacher has sort of reached the end point of a section and then try to rebuild any examples that they have built after they've gone through it and see just how much you remember yourself without looking back at what the material said you can find websites like for a mentor like i've mentioned in the past to get some free projects that you can code and it's good really good for practice i do a lot of youtube videos on those as far as knowledge i think one of the most important things when applying for jobs is just to be a good communicator i think that's a really important skill that not everybody has so yeah okay brenda michelle is asking any tips for growing on youtube or creating coding videos if you're trying to grow on youtube the most important thing is to figure out what your audience is so for example the audience on my channel is beginner web developers that's kind of the most important thing is picking your niche finding your audience and also seeing what they struggle with and what pain points they have and creating videos to solve those this question says hey your content is great love your creativity for animations in the videos what platform did you use to do the 8-bit video game one that was after effects correct so i think there was some kind of 8-bit filter that was used for that basically the entire adobe suite i would say okay maya loves codes asking or saying your editing is so good and then asking any tips or classes that you took again my husband the creative genius is a professional videographer and editor one class he did take was school emotion for i believe it was after effects stuff so i think that's a good place to at least check out if you are kind of getting into video animation all right so this question is from pha code tips for more confidence and imposter syndrome also how do you know if being a programmer is for you just know that it's totally normal to struggle with imposter syndrome and just know that it does get better over time i think it took me maybe two years of working full-time before i wasn't struggling like a huge amount with it every day but i do still struggle with imposter syndrome even today and i've been working in the industry for several years and as far as knowing if being a programmer is for you i think as you keep learning and working if you find that you enjoy it more than you hate it then maybe that's a good sign that it's a good fit for you okay this question is from leila how to improve logical reasoning skills in programming that's a pretty that's a tough one as you practice and build things and do programming more you can sort of see how things work it's almost like you know learning a foreign language it takes some time to immerse yourself and then you can see patterns pop out and things like that i will say that one tip i have for the logic part of coding is when you have a problem you're dealing with try to break it down and then you can kind of attack each of those smaller ones individually which makes it easier than trying to solve the entire big problem all at once so yeah break big things down into small things tomas vien is asking you incorporate any templating language in your dev stack and use any keyboard shortcuts with vs code i don't always use templating languages i am actually using it in my blog it's a wordpress blog i'm using this timber plugin which uses the twig templating language and then keyboard shortcuts with vs code yeah i try to use some of the image shortcuts i actually have a video on that on my channel if you want to see the ones that i tend to use the most well that's all the time we have for today so thanks again for your support and i'll see you next time