I’m posting this to encourage and motivate others who are on the path to web development.
I have just accepted an offer for a junior frontend developer role.
It has been a rocky road with my learning journey being ‘on and off’ for the last few years. However, since last year October I took web development seriously and made huge sacrifices.
Sleep? What’s that? Social life? Not in my dictionary.
I smashed my way through every obstacle non-stop. I chipped away little by little every night.
Finally, hard work has paid off.
Where did I learn to code?
A mixture of resources.
- FreeCodeCamp
- YouTube
- Official docs
- Articles/blogs
Most importantly I listened to podcasts and joined a few sub reddit groups where I would read posts on a daily basis. This is where I picked up a lot of the terminology and jargon to prepare me for interviews.
What tools were under my belt when I applied?
- HTML/CSS
- Sass/SCSS
- Bootstrap
- JavaScript
- React
- Gatsby
- GraphQL
- React-Bootstrap
- TailwindCSS
- Contentful & Prismic CMSs
I had also built a website for a local nursery with a CMS and a mailing platform.
For those who are in the midst of changing careers to web development, especially teachers - as I am one of them - there is light at the end of the tunnel
I couldn’t be more thankful to FreeCodeCamp for starting me on this journey. All the questions I asked, the moderators, admins and the good folks who helped me in my darkest moments of debugging despair.
If there’s one advice I would give to those starting out, it’s consistency beats everything. Stay consistent and trust the process.
The train is not stopping here, onwards an upwards