r/learnprogramming • u/Personal-Scholar-221 • 21h ago

Web-development beginner seeking advise

HI everyone I am a beginner in web development aspiring to be full-stack developer.

I have started my learning phase and i am currently on The Odin project and W3Schools Pathfinder hoping to gain as much knowledge as there is in that field.

To any pro Programmer or full-stack developer what advise would u give me and what were you doing to sharpen your skills as you were building yourself. I am open to all ideas especially practical related ones .

Thanks for your advice?

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u/AbdelrhmanDev 19h ago

odin project is a solid pick. biggest tip is to stop following tutorials as soon as you can and build small things where you have to look stuff up yourself, like a todo app then a small app that talks to a real api. also learn to read error messages and use the browser devtools, that skill saves more time than any framework. and put your projects on github early even if they are ugly

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u/Personal-Scholar-221 2h ago

Thanks 💯 , I recently set up Github and I'm getting the hang of things

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u/Alive_Sir7900 21h ago

Just build stuffs!

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u/JeffinitelyNotABot 18h ago

Learn the basics and start building stuff. Look at some hobbies you have and try to build your own version of something in that hobby. Feel free to respond with some of your hobbies I can suggest something. I got downvoted for suggesting this once, but I'm in a bowling league and creating my own bowling scoresheet was something I worked on.

Once you have a basic idea trust me more ideas will come. Like if you're a gamer and play alot of FPS games. Create you own version of your online stats. It doesn't have to be accurate data. In a fantast football league? create your own version of it. Compartmenting some of your hobies and trying to make your own version of it is a way.

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u/Personal-Scholar-221 2h ago

Thanks💯 , I'd say Scrabble and Efootball are in my top five things I like to do during my free time

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u/InformalStop2265 19h ago

Personally, I benefited from doing a paid, three-month coding bootcamp back in 2019. The structure, dedicated time, and access to instructors was really helpful from me. Beyond that, there are lots of great resources if you're going down the self-learning path, like freeCodeCamp, Harvard's CS50 course, Codecademy, master.dev (formerly Frontend Masters). I'd also recommend getting involved with any local community programming/web dev groups if they're available in your area. But courses are no substitute for building your own projects, and if you really wanna level up, learn in public as you build -> https://swyx.io/learn-in-public

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u/Personal-Scholar-221 2h ago

There are some local community web dev groups but I'm having a hard time getting into one , I decided to take the self-learning path , Most of these groups want individuals with an established skill set which I'm chasing rn , I hope I get there , Thanks for the advice 💯