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Thank you again very much for your advice and help. I did not know that CS50X was free. No, I do not like math. I enjoy the organizational, meticulous aspect of coding but do not like math. I guess that is something I will have to really ponder.

Hopefully QA won’t be phased out anytime soon by “the robots.”

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what’s the ideal way to go together with all these courses?

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I recommend doing CS50X first, before anything else. Then doing The Web Developer Bootcamp, followed by either the FCC curriculum or Git a Web Developer Job (doesn’t matter which order FCC and Git a Web Developer Job are done).

There are at least several more courses that I’d recommend for intermediate-level topics after these courses, these are just the beginning for the basics in computer science (CS50X) and front-end web development (the rest).

These roadmaps helpfully provide a big picture on all the different topics that different types of developers should know (either way, the courses I’ve mentioned will be applicable to most types of web devs): https://css-tricks.com/developer-roadmaps/

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You mean to complete cs50x first…then complete The Web Developer Bootcamp…then only start fcc?..

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Yes, because even the updated FCC curriculum still doesn’t cover everything that a web developer should know, and it’s better to get into it with more knowledge than you would otherwise. Also, the ordering is because CS50X is very foundational to any kind of job in computing or software, and The Web Developer Bootcamp is a really good course that’s more accessible for beginners than the FCC curriculum (and fills in some of the holes in the FCC curriculum).

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thank you…I would complete the cs50x first…then the web developer bootcamp…an then proceed with fcc and git…and I will get back to you after I complete those courses…for further advice…Do you mean this [https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x] course?

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Yes, that’s the one.

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do it actually take 11 weeks to complete?

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CS50 took me 20 hours including the homework.
11 weeks is the time for doing one lesson (~2hrs) per week.

Then I would go for:

  • basic HTML & CSS (FCC Responsive Web Design)
  • basic Git and Github (init, add, commit, push, remote, clone)

With this knowledge, you should build 5-10 Template Clones from here, all with the proper use of Git and Github.
Leave out the fancy JavaScript effects.
Post every Clone here in the forum and ask for feedback.

This will take one month full-time.

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