IG Live - Advice for beginner web developers

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just to start off with if you're a beginner just learning web development you're just curious about it I think one of the most important things you can do is to kind of have really concrete goal in mind when you start out you know I think a lot of people they've heard about coding or web development and you know they may not know exactly where to start but I think what can help you figure out like what language you want to start learning in or what staff you want to develop is to figure out what your ultimate goal is you know do you want to get a job at a company in your area or do you want to start a freelance business or you know maybe you want to be an app developer or a game developer or you know get a job at like a tech startup in your city you know all those things can kind of help to sort of reverse engineer that whole process for example if your goal is to get a job and change your careers I would recommend doing some research and you know local job listings and see see what languages companies are looking for and that way you can sort of tailor your own education toward what companies seem to be seem to be hiring for because I get a lot of questions from people saying you know what language should I learn you know what do I need to do to start and I always tell them you know just try to start at the end try to figure out what your end goal is and kind of work your way backwards so hopefully that helps I guess another tip that I think might be helpful helpful for beginners is you know once you figure out your goal also try to figure out the plan that you need to follow so you know like if you want to be a web developer let's say you want to be a friend web developer you know just start out learning the basics HTML CSS and then some vanilla JavaScript and I think I was actually reading this interesting article the other day on CSS tricks I don't know if any of you guys have read it but it was called The Divide and in a Kris Kuyper the founder of CSS tricks he was talking about how there seems to be this kind of division in front-end web development these days I think just with the whole you know JavaScript like react and angular and view getting so big friend web developer jobs can have very different I guess responsibilities or skill sets needed and it seems like eventually there may be divide where you'll have you know JavaScript engineers people who are you know doing a lot of like logic and things like that working in react and then you'll have people who are more on the almost the sort of UX or even design side where they're more concerned with you know writing really good CSS Styles making sure designs are responsive things like that so it's kinda interesting to you know think about how that career landscape is kind of changing but I think it can be kind of difficult if you are trying to interview for friend web developer jobs like I've heard of people you know they're having to learn algorithms and stuff like that even if they're more on the CSS side and they know that like they wouldn't really need it in their day to day job so I think that can be kind of frustrating the interview process but I think in general it seems like technical interviews are not anyone's favorite thing to do so you've got a question from Manish my first programming language I worked with c-sharp mostly my my previous job so I like c-sharp because it's fun it is something that I would like to learn more about but there's a lot of things that I want to learn Chirag says what do you recommend to stay motivated while coding as long as we may might lose track any ideas I think when you're learning to do coding or anything it is it can be hard to stay motivated especially if like you start something in the novelty kind of wears off a few codes yeah c-sharp very good for game development but I think staying motivated can to stay motivated I think it helps to one try not to burn out like try not to just you know keep burning that midnight oil learning and practicing because it can be exhausting I think another thing is to just try to stay curious about web development and sort of keep that curiosity going one way I like to do that is try to say on top so like I listen to syntax FM podcast if you haven't heard of it definitely try giving it a listen it's this really great web development podcast by West boss and Scott Olinsky and they just talk about anything and everything related to web development and it's just really cool hearing two people who are so excited about web development and it kind of makes me also feel excited interested plus I get to learn about new tools and technologies from it like for example parcel it's a it's like a web bundle or thing that I'm I heard about on the podcast first and I'm seriously considering replacing gulp with parcel just cuz it's like so easy you really don't have to do any configuration for it to get it to compile your CSS and JavaScript files Boyka races can you please recommend some good CSS on resources yeah for learning CSS I guess if you are if you're looking for like a whole boot camp thing free code camp is always a good resource I recommend people to to check out also john Duckett he's written really good books on web dev yes this is pack Nance's tried Jonas Schmidt Minh courses new to me I've heard people really like his courses he has like an advanced sass course that some people on consider graham were taking recently but yeah he's really good also I also like checking out CSS tricks they have a lot of helpful articles they have one article on flex books that I always go to every time I build something new so yeah hopefully that helps yeah so if any of you all are learning and you have any questions about web development you know feel free to leave a comment and hopefully either I can help you or someone else who's on this Instagram life can help you as well I guess I have a question for any of you if you're learning you know what are some things that you found helpful or things that use problems that you struggle with and feel free to leave a comment about Lorca's what j/s framework do you use I actually haven't learned any JavaScript frameworks yet that's something that I hope to get into this year but when I was working I did kind of full stack stuff with c-sharp sequel some various CMS's but recently I'm trying to focus more in front-end stuff like responsive design and things like that Ross Kumar says instead of wasting time of tutorials that we can go through a crash course and then working projects the best way to be a pro what do you think about this yeah I think that's good that's definitely a good point I think a lot of people when you're learning it's just so easy to get stuck in just kind of reading or watching tutorials and honestly the best way to learn something is to try to make something with it so you know if you're watching a tutorial on whatever it is responsive design or something in JavaScript I definitely recommend sort of when you're done with that section just kind of stopping there putting it on pause and trying to make stuff yourself that sort of puts those skills that you've been learning into practice because it'll definitely help you realize what exactly you know and don't know and don't know huh sorry then how long beginner to become a web developer your mind let's make very that is a very common question but it definitely depends on how much time you have in your day you know if you have to work a full time job if you have a family and have to take care of kids you know all these things it can take a while like I would actually think even though some people say you can become a web developer in 3 months while that's possible through a coding bootcamp or something I think it's more likely to be like one to two years and yeah I had a I posted on Instagram about that topic a few days ago so I know a lot of people want to just get it over with quick but you know things like that take time it takes time to get good at something aravindh says a startup story I guess you're asking how did I get into web development I can yeah try to give you a quick summary of that I when I was in high school I taught myself HTML and basic CSS this is back in the days of um geo cities I don't know if any of you were around back then hopefully some of you were but I just did that for fun I just made websites about snowboarding which I was kind of obsessed with at the time but I never thought it would be like a career possibility so I just never thought about it but after college I graduated I studied photography in college and so you know not really related sort of related to web development right because you need some creativity sometimes but yeah I didn't really know what I wanted to do I was doing a lot of temp job just doing you know admin office jobs but somehow I found a job that was doing data entry and I hit I'm teaching me programming so this is like vb.net sequel stuff so I learned some some of that and I worked at that job for about two years and then I was able to get an another job as an actual web developer at an advertising agency and I was lucky because they were willing to hire someone who was extremely entry-level because they knew that you know they knew that and they're willing to train me and so I stayed there for about six years and then this past summer actually decided to go freelance full-time freelance so that's what I'm doing now so right now I'm working I'm doing freelance for a tech company and working remotely so I work from home every day and I'm doing mostly friend like responsive design stuff for them which I've been really enjoying so yeah hopefully that I guess helps answer your question about how I got started out let me just make sure I didn't miss any questions what kind of developer am i I'm I sort of answer that I'm doing many mainly friend right now um so azim says I want to be an ETL developer I'm not sure what ETL is yeah I'm not really familiar with that looks like it's something related to data big data I need any language to learn sorry I don't really know anything about that but I think you can I just googled ETL developer or rather duck-duck good I try not to use Google as much as possible and hopefully can find out more information on that if anyone knows about what ETL development involves feel free to leave a comment what JavaScript am I using framework amazing I as I mentioned before I actually don't know any jobs with frameworks right now but I hope to learn probably react cool let's see okay ease up Khan says extract transform load cool Ariane says for you where the biggest child isn't working from home full-time hmm that's a great question yeah I think I've been working remotely from home for about I guess two years now I was still doing I was still unlike my previous job when I started working remotely and it was definitely challenged too I think mmm I think fine just being able to focus on work because you know when you go into an office you're surrounded by co-workers like everyone's working it's very easy to just kind of get into that work mode when you work from home you know it's like your home it's usually where you just hang out and relax and sort of converting your mindset to being able to get into work mode when you're at home is like it was very difficult now just not feeling motivated just basically throughout the day and then I got into this bad pattern where I couldn't focus during the day and then I would end up sing-sing up late at night working til you know 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. to catch up on the work that I didn't do during the day which then led to the next day feeling tired and not motivated again so that was pretty tough it has gotten better honestly I think is just something that over time can help but I think a few things that might help if any of you are in that similar situation is to try to for example not get distracted during the day by not going on reddit or other social media during work hours I'm just trying to keep that separation between like work life and then home life really separate as much as possible but it's just like that I think your brain is kinda has to get used to a horse huh let's see yeah I mean photographer definitely makes you better friend of Oliver says Manish says what kind of model do you follow while developing stuff I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that yeah can you maybe expand on what what your accent specifically Network enthusiasts how long do you need to be a confident freelance coder yeah I think any of these time questions it really just depends on your specific situation and stuff if I love how like what your skills are but I think yeah I can't really answer that question for you a zuv con sorry says do you think one should rely on freelancing again that depends on you I think freelancing can be really good we have the personality for it for example you know when I went freelance and I was so chatting with my co-workers about it one of them was like oh man I don't think I could ever get into freelance because you know I just like the stability of working at a company and it's true I'm especially where I live in the u.s. working for a company's the best way to get like good health insurance whereas if you are working for yourself as a freelancer you know you're gonna have to pay a lot of money for health insurance and it may not be as good as what you get with a company but if you are someone who really wants to be your own boss if you can manage your time really well by yourself I'm just working from home or than you know it could be that freelancing is a good choice for you for me I really I like the autonomy that I have working freelance but you know I wouldn't say no if I have found a really good opportunity with a company so cool hope that helps how much weight you're in a month sorry I don't really not gonna answer any money questions Oliver says are you getting work from up work at Sara or are you working remote for a company I have gotten freelance gigs in the past just from word of mouth I'm just people knowing that I can make websites but currently I'm just working for a company something that I found would be networking from former co-workers so yeah there's a there's some difference in that cuz like I'm not like having to find customers and clients either in my area through word of mouth or through work so I just found a gig working at a company and I think it is possible to find remote jobs I've seem to be more of them nowadays than there were before let's see promises and what language can you work and get a job in the US and UK umm any language really you just need to look at job listings and apply them and see see what languages people are looking for the spec mixes yeah for a Zak on it boiled down to two single terms freedom versus job security so it's a really good way of playing it um let's see yeah I saw sconces for freelancing platforms no matter how many skills you have you're still relying on them and they stood aside want to take you off that's true so you know I wouldn't 100 percent rely on any one sort of form of income you know if you're enough work try to also find clients you know in your local area to word of mouth or through other platform [Music] programmer zero zero zero one one one zero zero says what is your roadmap to success hmm it's a good question I think to rune ups to success as a web developer I think is one learning the skills obviously need technical skills to be a good web developer but I think another skill that people kind of overlook especially you know this day and age when people are kind of just talk about tutorials and languages and stacks is like being able to communicate well either with people you're working with or with your clients I think you know don't think that you know everything and just think about you know the clients requests are like oh they're so dumb or whatever I think it's good to try to be empathetic and sort of see a project from the point of view of save your project manager you know they are trying to make sure the project is done well and under budget and things like that and for your client or your customer you know they if you're making a website for them they need that website to help their business and they make the money so I think having that level of empathy can really help you and kind of make I think it can make you stand out because I think there are programmers and developers who don't have that empathy and I can get her to them over time like not to toot my own horn but I feel like I was I'm a pretty good person to work with because I do try to understand things from other people's point of view so that helps um let's see missed a few questions um learning machine learning and nodejs is that useful I am unfortunate I don't know anything about learning machine learning or nodejs but from what I've read I think machine learning and AI so this is more like Python but if any of you know what you learning maybe you could wait and on that question and he says what kind of software development model do you follow developing stuff that's how waterful okay got it um I'm I've done both I've done the traditional sort of waterfall method back when I was working at my advertising job and that sometimes works sometimes it didn't work just because I think things for example one of the worst things for developers is that you're kind of the last step in that process right like first you have to get the customer requirements then you have the the UX and wireframes planned out then the design and then development so in my case would happen a lot unfortunately is that things would get delayed and design off some often due to you know the client sort of changing their mind midway and then they have to redesign stuff and the deadlines wouldn't change so I would end up having to do two weeks of work two weeks worth of work in like a week you know something like that so that sort of sucked but I think that's more failure of I think being able to tell the client like you know what their expectations are and holding them to you know not changing their minds multiple times right now I'm at my freelance gig they're doing kind of morning agile things so you know that's been a pretty good experience for me so far you know at for any given week I had just have a list of assignments so I need to finish and I kind of and they sort of know what's coming but it's like yeah it's like we're working it on different things at the same time like me and the designers but I'm not like super experienced about agile it's just the project manager is sort of handle that stuff um Ollie says are you happy now yes I am actually very happy with my my current career state I like working from home and I love making websites and I really love doing responsive design stuff so yeah I'm having a pretty good time and I like doing Instagram I really do like helping people who have questions because before I did coding as a job like I didn't know what I wanted to do and it's just something that I really love doing I love the problem-solving aspects and I love just building things and so you know if I can help people find a good career somehow or at least be a small part of their journey then I think that I find that very fulfilling and satisfying so that's why I like doing these things like the Instagram whatever they're like helping people via DMS let's see is that is as con says it's always better to work on your own product rather than working for someone or offering services my perspective yeah I think everyone has a different way that they like to do work you know if you if you like working on your own product and sort of selling that or as opposed to you know being kind of a more customer oriented service then yeah I think I think my cool thing about web development is that there's just so many different applications and so many things you can do and I think everyone can find sort of their little niche and like what what interests them and what they enjoy doing the most dance is where are you from I live in the u.s. ali reza said this python the free eye I think it is that's just what I've read I don't I don't know Python I don't really have much familiarity with AI stuff that's what I've read o Yusef codes hey how are ya dances I mean where are you from I was born the US but my parents are from Indonesia rebec says your idea about laravel I don't know it myself I just know like a tiny little bit of PHP mostly from working on a wordpress projects but I've heard Lear bells really good and so I think PHP is good yeah you so thanks for joining let's see wait Wilson says do you think they need to be more diversity in your industry line of work that's kind of a hot topic question I guess just from my own experience I worked at a company and at one point there were maybe six developers and I was the only woman and that was the only minority so you know I think that there is room for more diversity I think more you know I think we all know that there's like a big push right now for getting more women and people of color into tech and I think that I think that is true because you know even those of us on Instagram who are female coders we I think get a lot of kind of weird / creepy questions or comments even that are sort of implying that we're posers and that we don't actually know how to code we're singing pictures of ourselves without computers and I think that honestly that's something that the men on Instagram don't get as much of or at all and so I think that's just that there's still this thought that you know women art is suited to tech as men are obviously not everyone thinks that I think it's just a minority who believes that but I think it's good to sort of just show everyone no matter what you know if the sea or whatever you are that programming is a good field to get into because I think there's still more jobs than there are people available to work so yeah hopefully that answers your question um let's see what about nodejs I think it's definitely a good thing to learn you know the Stack Overflow their developer service that they do every year it seems like javascript is really just getting bigger and bigger so no js' on the back end is definitely good skill to learn um Shh when he says the only part I hated my job to deal with annoying client requests what about you yeah I think I can go one of two ways I think yes sometimes clients well I think the problem is that clients they aren't technically skilled right otherwise they would people in their own website but they they have desires for their website and their business that maybe we as developers we don't fully understand because we're not in that every day so I think that sometimes they can request things that are just completely unrealistic and it's because they don't understand but I think obviously there's good clients and bad clients if you can hit that point where you have a good relationship with your customers and you can sort of help them help educate them on like what's possible and what's not possible then I think you know that can get better over time but yeah I'm with these men on client requests are kind of annoying I think yeah I think unfortunately as you know working in technical industries I think part of our job is always going to be educating people who aren't as tech savvy as we are let's see should I learn node.js or Python is back end um yeah any language question that I get I kind of say it depends on your situation how it depends on what jobs are available in your area that you want to apply for it depends what's deck you want to do you know you could be a full-stack JavaScript engineer and just do like react or if you were angular on the front end and then nodejs on the back end but python is definitely good language especially for things like data science or machine learning so I was interesting kate's York says how do you define a developer what are your views on how a developer should be um yeah I think nowadays it seems like coder when people say coder or coding a lot of times they seem to mean like front-end web development but developer can be anything it could be it could be making websites as a web developer you could be making the software you could be an app developer it could be a game developer I think it's just a very a sort of broad all-encompassing term developer so it could mean many different things Youssef says I believe we should be treated equally regardless of our gender faith background etc in any industry yeah yep but particularly in tech girls do get a lot of unnecessary rubbish I hope this changes yeah this is Peck and says women text roles are real keeping us here in clean those creepers are my job Thanks yes I will try to sleep alive and post it maybe on YouTube if I'm allowed to download the file I haven't done it I didn't do it through my last one but I'll try to save this current one Sheik says we used net quarterback in cool I've actually heard some really cool things about net core I haven't worked in it myself but my previous boss he was trying to do that and I've heard it's really cool yeah it's just interesting to see Windows nowadays are they're going more toward the open source sort of direction like buying github for however many billions of dollars so it's interesting to see what's gonna happen with them yeah I will try to see the live I might actually try to experiment as other times like I think people in the US who are working can't get away during the day you know they can't join on this one so I might try to do the next one like in the evening u.s. time which I might be morning time in Asia so yeah I'll save it anyway shoe code says what kind of music do you an see while you code depends on my mood I think in the morning I try to start out with like background jazz or just kind of more ambient stuff to sort of not be too jarring but then in the afternoon if I'm trying to focus I will listen to things like chill hop were like epic those types of genres there's a lot on YouTube I wasn't it shield hop one of my favorite channels on YouTube is artist Empire they have a lot of cool mixes sometimes I listen see like this pop mix that I created on YouTube which is like SIA and just different sort of poppy jammy musics let's see I hope that helps actually if I'm really needing to focus I have this one video that I watched which is like epic Celtic music and it's just like maybe a loop of like me one or two minutes but for some reason like that really helps me focus but that's like a last resort if I'm like really in trouble Gigi are Roxas I'm done with front technology am i right to start front freelancing yeah I mean it depends on for freelancing you need to be able to build a site from the ground up and deploy it and so I think if you can do that then you're ready for front freelancing you know hopefully have a portfolio set up of you know you even demo sites it just to show your skills to potential clients my soccer says what's my educational qualification well I didn't go to school for computer science I I used to feel bad about that because some of the people that I worked with they actually got like bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and so I felt very like inferior to them but you know even though I know that there's some gap missing in my knowledge in terms of maybe the more sort of higher high view of computer science and logic and stuff I think that it hasn't really kept him back from being able to do work so I don't feel too bad about that anymore and I think you might nowadays just people learning from coding boot camps and online and there's just so many resources like I think more and more like a degree in computer science isn't really necessary obviously it depends on the company cuz if you work for like a specific a certain company that really a degree or if you are focusing more on the backend stuff I think having that degree can't help you a bit more with that but I don't think it's at all necessary um she says what do you do when you are really sick of code and stack overflows no help that can be tough one thing that one sort of maybe unexpected thing that I found that helps a lot is to just step away from the computer and like take a walk because there's been so many times that I've been just sitting a desk trying to figure out this problem and I can't figure it out and stack overflows no help but if I like step away and like I think walking around gets the blood circulation going better than a lot of times like my brain subconsciously will just sort of like solve a problem and obviously that doesn't always help it's like you really don't know what the situation is but I think other places you could try are I found some slack channels that are just sort of dedicated to friend web development or you know other web development channels and there's people there who are super helpful so I don't know any of the top of my head but if you can if you search online you'll be able to find a few that you can join and I've found a lot of help through them especially if you know you're having a problem with like a specific software like sometimes they'll even have their own dedicated slack channels so free vet says how can someone from another country do fluent in the US that's a pretty good question um my own experience I do know that like my previous job they did hire some freelancers that were from South America and so it is possible I think I don't know too much about it but I would guess that if you can join up work and you know develop a good portfolio you can show to clients and that would help also having good communication skills can help so if you don't live in the u.s. I think having really good English skills will really help you a lot and make you stand out and just like you know having being able to work on having liked an American accent and stuff will help you a lot but for freelance stuff I would actually check out John Morris online you can look him up on YouTube I think he's on Instagram at John Morris 10 but he has a lot of helpful advice for if you're trying to get fun up work and making yourself stand out because there's just a lot of people and I know people that don't like up work sometimes or other platforms like that cuz it's like a race to the bottom for whoever can charge the least but I think his approach is really helpful because it helps you develop almost like your own brand as a web developer and like he helps you with making a good sort of resume that potential customers can look at and I think his advice has been really helpful so hopefully that helps Kate Rorick says keep posting this franco's for us I will do my best oh yeah this is pac-man says you can hear free code camp they have a 24/7 livestream they have a really good one and they actually are really good YouTube channel to follow because they have tons of tutorials I'm sorry I'm not trying to kiss abundance of these many she says what else do you are doing apart from programming I like reading I like reading about I've been reading a lot of sort of nonfiction business type books these days one book in particular that I've really enjoyed is by Adam grant it's called give and take it's about how you know you think that to be successful you have to sort of make sure you take and not give but he writes about how actually the most successful people are also converse so that it was a pre interesting book um this is pac-man says to be honest all the specialist masters education czar useless it's like they're light rays are different words for seven years I think anyone's feeling through your oh thanks yeah I don't know I think it's just changed so much I think you know ten years ago you definitely would have needed a degree but nowadays you really don't have to because people realize that it's just about the skills so if you can show that you have the skills to make a website or after whatever it is and you know you're going to be able to get hired so yeah yeah as far as what else I like to do it's like hanging out with friends or hanging out with my husband yeah eating out of cool restaurants but also trying to save money so yeah we've actually been trying to batch our meals so we this week we cooked all the meals for the week on Sunday so we cooked like three different things and so we've just been eating that this week and that's been really awesome because not having to cook every day after work is like kind of nice you get more time so just another random thing mr. P 3 P code says how to improve logic yeah I think understanding logic when solving problems is an important skill to have I think if you can think about a problem or something that you're trying to build try to break it down into different steps and figure out what you need to do first so I know it's kind of a big answer to your question but yeah I would recommend just trying to break things down into like a logic like okay if I need to build this thing then I need to make sure this this and this are in place first and just sort of kind of attack them one step at a time and that kind of helps oh the name again the up work guide John Morris online so look him up on YouTube yeah it seems like a lot of people work trying to get into freelance because you know it's having autonomy and stuff is very appealing to a lot of people so the other place might recommend learning about freelance is Kyle prinsloo he has an account on Instagram called study web development and he has a website and stuff he sold like this freelancing package that if you're trying to start out with a freelancer you might find that really helpful so yeah on a daily basis what's the duration you do for coding um I mean I I sort of been working all day I guess but usually I've found that I can say most efficient if I'm like working for maybe an hour and a half and then taking a break so just trying to bash it in chunks like that okay um let's see okay so I think someone had Rajkumar says if they're frustrated at learning data structures this is pac-man says try cold stealer Andrey Nikolov course some data structures and algorithms those are good cool soap says why did you decide to freelance what about working for companies um sort of happen in phases for me I did used to work for a company like going in person everyday but then I moved across the country and they said I could still keep my job and work remotely so that was what I was doing for a couple years and then after that I decided that I just wanted to try the freelancing out because you know I just wanted to I think have more control over my day so that's why I got into freelance and so far it's been working out pretty well so let's see cool um yes I guess this is maybe 45 minutes in maybe my last little tip if you're a beginner web developer is to try to keep learning all the time and try to stay up-to-date on trends you don't have to try you don't have to know every single thing right that would be kind of impossible but as you can sort of try to follow trends I do it by listening to the syntax FM podcast and also reading things like Smashing Magazine they are a really cool online publication I think that you can sort of try to eyeball which trends are becoming more mainstream and then you can decide to learn then once they're mainstream so then you don't have to keep jumping back and forth learning every single new thing that comes out unless that's something that you like to do then of course you know go ahead let's see once your awhole says how to grow to be a full second vowel from the back in developer if you're currently a back-end developer and you want to be full stack then you just need to learn the front-end stuff just make sure that you are learning you know old HTML CSS and JavaScript stuff as well as doing responsive design but yeah languages in the stacks will depend on what kind of job that you want to like apply for yes only Texas yes knowing everything is impossible it is mr. p3p code says about cracking the coding interview that book actually as much as people don't want don't like the idea of it basically just boils down technical interview questions to like an SAT prep which is basically what that book is but it is helpful I've heard a lot of people who it's helped actually I'm with a friend recently who I did a job I think partially because he he bought that book and he was a really experienced developer but it's kind of annoying having to prepare for interview questions by just like studying the questions the answer it's like it just seems like is that really good testing your skills but unfortunately that's kind of the state of interviews right now oh that's the codes hi thanks for stopping by um link says I'm trying to start my career in web development please suggest me where to start um if you want to be a web developer just start with the basics HTML CSS and JavaScript and then you know if you want to do more JavaScript stuff you can learn react or view or angular maybe not angular I would try react but yeah I start with the basics and then you can sort of figure out where to go from there as far as places where you can learn I'd recommend free code camp dot org they're free it's like an online boot camp all that material is mostly like text and stuff so some people don't like that but they also have a YouTube channel that has like a ton of a ton of resources and like anything you can imagine they have a really big YouTube channel going yeah let's see hopefully that helps hi Sasha are you interested in any other fields um I guess in development I'm sort of interested in game development but honestly I don't know if I'll ever hit that or I think you'll be kind of cool to make an app but you know I think right now I'm just focusing on like friend web development rock sheet says can I ask a question yes feel free to have a quick to ask a question um Beavis wore a sari he says are you self-taught I am sort of self-taught I mean I didn't learn from courses but I did learn on the job so I don't know if that counts his self side because I had people like my boss and stuff to help me but a lot of my learning was through just like frantically googling for something that I had to make for a deadline so I guess in that sense I am kind of self-taught um okay my aunt says I know html/css longer basically Java cool Java is good for back-end yeah I would I would learn more advanced CSS I think someone said earlier that a good place to learn that is on udemy there's a course by Jonas Schmidt man I'm mispronouncing that but he has good CSS courses there's also a cold steel bootcamp on udemy as well it's a very popular course I would just look at you to me you know if you have the money to spend they usually they have sales that are like you know $10 u.s. so if you have the money to spend you can afford you then I think the course on udemy could be a good resource for you to invest in just look under like the web developer category and see what's the most popular and read reviews rajkumar says we do do a little a lot of working projects yep but an interview they asked us to write code on paper and the can't remember every code yeah that kind of sucks um yeah it's just I think a matter of practice but that book cracked in the coding interview does I think I have a lot of helpful information just to get past the tech interview um Manish thank you for the answer it's yeah thanks for joining rock sheet says can I get an internship I don't like I mean me I'm not really I don't really have a company or anything but yeah hopefully you can find an internship in wherever you are my stalker says how many coding languages do I know and what's the best one um I mean I know some JavaScript I know some c-sharp I know the tiny little bit of PHP what's the best language it's really just what the best one for the job is I learn C start because my company had to make net websites for the clients so I learned that but I also did some PHP enough to do WordPress that's really just what your client is looking for oh yes simply in Texas is also traversing media on YouTube yes he's a huge YouTube channel on coding stuff very helpful great if you can talk medium yes feel free to DM me questions can you get an internship in Google Rock she is saying I don't know that much about working it like the big tech startups I'm assuming like do internships but yeah I don't really know too much about that I'm sorry ma da says absolutive question can you please explain the best way to start coding without getting tired of it cuz whenever you're trying to just reading yeah it's actually a really important thing when you're learning coding you do need to spend some time learning the actual skills and like washing tutorials or reading but the most important thing is to just build something so I don't know what your skill set is but like just trying to the website you know try to you know do some research on you know what kind of websites you could try to make or some people will just make up test projects for themselves like you could say okay I'm gonna try to build a calculator that works with JavaScript and CSS so yeah don't don't just watch tutorials or read books try to like kind of apply that knowledge and make real stuff hope that helps I think that also will help keep you motivated not get bored because you're actually like building stuff so yeah how to apply for internships Google or Apple yeah sorry I really don't know any info about that so I would search on Google for how to land jobs at tech tech companies you can read free code camp they have a medium publication it's at medium duck free code camp org and there's a lot of articles written by people about how they got jobs at Google or wherever so that I think might be helpful for you to just read someone who's actually gone through the process unlike myself my body says what about resources explain some please I'm soon you're asking about learning yeah I mean we've mentioned a few places here that you can learn for learning resources on udemy and also YouTube you know traversing media and free code camp has a YouTube channel I did write an article on my blog but you can see it's linked in my bio the beginner's guide to learning web development so I tried listening out some good learning resources so I would recommend checking that out I am NOT visas Jenko or Reax confused yeah again figure out what your your goal is like what kind of job you want to get and do research in the potential job that you could apply for and see what languages that they're looking for so I think you need to do a little bit of footwork to figure out this is packages what what is the best way you recommend in approaching a course code along or do it by yourself after said videos um I'm just trying to figure out what works best for you I think what I would assume will work well is to sort of watch the video like watch just like a section of that video or if it's broken up into different topics and then once you've done that sort of go pause the video and go back and try to sort of recreate what you just learned like on your computer so it's kind of like you know you if you watch the whole tutorial without doing anything you might just forget everything but I think if you can kind of go step by step and just break it up by section and then try to do the work yourself and that might be helpful yeah Jango is a CMS for Python and react as a front-end framework so yeah that's correct in Rajkumar Cisco along live a sweet grass everything fast yeah rock sheet says can help me on my app making process I don't do apps sorry yeah like I'm happy to help people with specific questions but you need to kind of learn how to research things yourself also I don't know app development sorry soap says what me need shoes and focus on your career job I just I chose my current job which is mainly doing finance for a tech company because I liked working with them yeah I'm not sure that is what you're asking but yeah feel free to post like a follow up question I didn't answer your question um - awkward you prepare yourself before coding with writing and papers are directly start to code that's actually a really good question um when I start making a website I actually will draw out a sketch so like you can call it wireframes so what what the website will look like before I actually start coding so that I love writing like writing things out by hand before I start coding because I think it helps you to kind of organize your process and what you have to do even for like back and Lovick things like if I'm building out some sort of complex feature I will manually write out like all the different steps that I need to to follow in order to build that feature so I think it's a really good approach to try to write things out beforehand because you can start coding but then you know if you made a mistake along the way you'll have to go back and erase everything and start over Tamar says what programming language to learn in 2019 based on the Stack Overflow develop our survey I think Java Script is a great one to learn but if you're interested in other fields like if you want to do app development I think there's different languages for that like Swift for iOS it really depends on what you want to do and sorry that's not a you know there's no one best answer for everyone right it depends on what you want to do what jobs are available and what they're asking for so but javis if you're just learning for the sake of learning I would check out JavaScript cuz that's really big right now this is peckin so that you can visit Brad traversée web development trends in 2019 YouTube cool I haven't seen that but yeah WS DTH does Traverse E and design course are best YouTube channels for running coding in designing cool I haven't checked out the design course but that's great thanks for sharing that Wade says do you bullet Journal of so how do you do it I don't really bullet journal but I do sometimes write down my goals like on a paper notebook and then I will plan out my goals for the week and then everyday I have a goal that I want to do but I'm kind of walking on with that honestly you know I think it does help to write out the goals that you have like the day before or like the night before so yeah I don't think they were getting answer to your question but I sometimes blow general ish coding suture says what was the first website that you made the very first website when I first started learning that was probably a snowboarding website that I made for myself on geo cities because I was obsessed with it when I was in high school let's see but I also made my own like blogs and stuff kind of back in the day it was a good question Abdul our modern sorry this is joining math while coding you do need some math it like unless you're doing like really complex backend logic I don't think you need necessarily to know a lot of calculus but honestly for myself knowing some math was helpful I actually had to use some geometry way back when because I had to code like this triangle and it had to be responsive so the angle had to say the same so I was like using I guess I was trigonometry to make sure that angle get stay the same that's kind of silly but yeah I don't know you might need math depending on the job but I don't think you need to know like advanced math especially you're doing friend web development mm-hmm I am now if you say the future of angular um yeah I think what angular first came out was the first JavaScript framework and so it was very popular but then when they made angular 2 it it changed so much that I think a lot of developers got and no I they kind of left and then they started going to reiax which is now kind of dominating the field of JavaScript so I don't know I think for angular there's a lot of companies that they already have these huge projects that have been built in angular so you might need to know it if your job needs it but it's why the future I think eventually you know those products will probably go away or get turned into react but you know there's still there's still a lot of use for it at least now but I wouldn't only learn angular I would definitely learn react as well okay simply Texas for app you can do react native or electron jeaious for desktop apps cool um Mira Mimi says what about machine learning that's definitely a growing field I don't know it myself but I think Python is a good language for that this vue.js have any future that's a good question they have a pretty small chunk of the JavaScript framework PI but they're like really popular in certain countries like the creator views from China so it's really popular in China I first also popular in Mexico I'm in some other countries so I think we definitely have a future people seem to like the view because it's like really easy to learn um so yeah let's see yes javascript can use literally anything to to make with javascript eagles sing as one your enough tools stay the marin stack um yeah oh okay bye Ari on thanks for joining is one you're enough to study more tech yeah it depends on how much time you have available to study you know I don't know if you have a full-time job or you have other responsibilities like a family but I mean a one-year I think is pretty it's a pretty good length of time if you can sort of devote a few hours every day to it I think that you would be able to make a lot of progress premon says what are prereqs to land a front and web job it totally depends on I think pretty early on in the lives I mean I've been here but others talking a bit about how from web development is kind of splitting and there's this article on CSS tricks about that so Oh 30 seconds left so I think I might have to wrap this up but yeah I would just check out Davos things in your area perhaps but the basics would be HTML CSS and JavaScript yeah sorry I think that might be it for questions but thanks everyone for joining and I'll try to do one of these again so all right have a good weekend