Hi, guys! I’m from China working as a bidding specialist for a construction company. The people around me are nice, I just don’t enjoy the job I do, which involes a lot of repetitions. It’s numb for me to copy and paste daily. I just appreciate the art of coding, variables, arrays, loops, and functions etc, almost every concept just reduce repeating. At the moment, I finished C tutorial of W3Schools and freeCodeCamp Legacy Responsive Web Design Challenges. For C, I feel like that I almost learned nothing since I can’t get access to W3Schools’ online editor in China, and I don’t have my own computer in hands, which means there’s a lack of hands-on experience for me. For RWD, I think I’m a little in a rush, just following instructions of challenges, it didn’t make sense of me at that moment. So I try to find some ways to getting out of it. I’m going to quit my job at about the end of this year to go hometown, to get my own desktop to set up the development environment, and to take FCC’s core curriculums seriously online live in front of audiences in order to practice my thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. I aspire to become a full stack developer. Before leaving my job, I’ll swich from C to JavaScript because JS is more convenient than C in terms of practicing coding in my opinion. Meanwhile I decide to listen to some podcasts about RWD to get more undersatanding of it. In short, I just wnat to know if it makes sense of me to do so before I leaveing my job. I’m glad to get any advice.
Hello @Flasheddy!
Getting your PC and setting up a development environment will be a complete game changer. And also switching from C to JavaScript. Javascript is known for its simplicity, which is a great choice for a beginner. Continue taking the FCC lessons in that order, RWD, Javascript Data structures and algorithms… leverage any other programme that will help you learn apart from FCC.
What you said makes total sense.
Thank you for your nice reply, I don’t have to be great to start, but have to start to be great. In other words, focusing on the moment to improve a little every day. Before quitting my current job, I can try legacy FCC curriculum to stick to code every day.
If you don’t have computer access I could recommend SoloLearn which works well on your phone, although that will always be a bit limited.
I hope you save as much money as you can before you quit!
Solo learning is a good option @pkdvalis it’s the application I used when I was introduced to all this.
Thanks for your advice for recommanding SoloLearn, since I live in China, it’s a little bit tricky to access to Google Play. I just stick to coding with freeCodeCamp on weekdays using my office’s desktop. When I take a day off, it’s a good time for me to listen to podcasts related to coding and development. In terms of money, it’s enough to support my living for at least two years even without bothering my family. They always worry about my career because I was college drop-out, I really want to learn to code and get a developer job to support my family.
Sololearn is very good for programming especially if you are starting a new language.