Manifest it!

I'm sure you will! come back here for an update once you land that job, give hope to others as well king 🤴

failure is not an option

You got this. I was in same boat then I finally got my first Salary job 2 weeks ago. Its life changing !

What bootcamp did you do I was looking at coding dojo can you recommend the one you went too ?

Same!

Same

Are you in a front end developer position?

@@kpkcreations4956 yes Jr web dev

Congrats mate! I am happy for you.

What type of stuff do you need to know can you prepare? Or is too company specific to prepare for

Congrats👏 always encouraging to hear others successful outcomes

I went to a prestigious college for CS and in my fourth semester I had to do a medical drop. I left with huge debt and nothing to show for it. Fast forward 4ish years and I've been on disability, living with my parents, and trying to find some kind of work I can do. I took a leap and signed up for fullstack academy's online web developer 6 month bootcamp. I'm about 3.5 months into it and it has honestly been the best decision I've made in a long time. Now of course I don't have a job yet or even the certificate of completion. But the amount that I've learned in less than 4 months has been insane in comparison to my time in college and/or the years I tried to slowly teach myself. The confidence it has given me and the people I've met made it worth every penny so far. Now I'm not shilling for FS academy, as I believe I got very lucky with my instructors. The main instructor has more than a decade experience and was the lead dev at a decently sized startup prior to switching into teaching. Afaik that is not common at most bootcamps, a lot of times the instructors are past students. Regardless, I'm telling you this just to say you can do it and just try to put in the effort. I'm the type of person who needs the deadlines and stress in order to successfully learn. I needed a guided course as teaching myself was a snail's pace in comparison to now. Most importantly getting over the initial hump of learning the basics of coding, in general, has helped me to know how to actually research what I want to know. Before this I kinda felt lost, basically in tutorial hell. But the fast pace of this bootcamp has you constantly building on top of what you just learned. Which is really helpful for not forgetting the things you've already learned. I don't remember any Java or any CS related stuff from college. But web development has been far more fun and rewarding than anything I learned/used in CS during college. IDK what your plans are for a career and what area you want to work in. But hopefully this helped in some way. I plan to try and get any job asap and maybe try to do freelance until I land a job. I hope to one day go back and get my degree once I'm financially independent etc. Just in case you or anyone else is interested in what we've been taught so far; we have learned these things at a basic or higher-level html, CSS, JS, GIT, node, react, express, webpack, and now PostgreSQL. I'm probably missing something but those are the minimum of things we've built projects using. Concepts and things like debugging, BASH, npm, etc are also taught, just don't feel the need to list all that. Good luck and I hope you land a job you really enjoy!

Thank you! I've just learned html/css/git/JS/little bit of php and SQL. Would you recommend leet code too?

@@KillasStayFly trying to study all of leetcode can be overwhelming, but for most technical interviews there’s a handful of data structures that pop up. Learn to implement them and the time it takes to search/sort/insert/delete. Stack, Linked List, Binary Tree, and Graph (which is a tree). Learn to build them as classes and use functions to operate on them. Hash-table questions appear as well, usually disguised as comparing two lists of items. You should know it’s an array of key-value pairs stored at a hash location under the covers. A Python dictionary or JSON structure uses a hashtable.

Im a full time Web developer and I used to be in the same situation. I was studying frontend at one point, then that led me to backend, then I started studying web design, and then freelance. Problem was i was all over the place so I never really learned everything I needed to learn. In order to succeed you MUST have a goal in mind. If you want a full time job pick that, figure out which skills you need to get one and focus only on that. If you want to freelance, study freelance and which tools you will use for it. Freelancing is easier based on the technical skills needed but harder based on other skills such as work ethic, and persistence. You can freelance without knowing how to code at all and use WordPress but inconsistency checks may be a little stressful. If you want a full time job, you will need a portfolio. First decide if you want to do frontend or backend. Don’t focus on both its a waste of time. Most companies hire for one or the other, and if you want to learn more in the future you can, while you have the job. After you make a portfolio, create a resume with those portfolio projects on it as your work experience, and whatever skills. After that apply to every web developer job you see. It will take time but you will eventually land that job. It took me 3 months once I started applying.

I as well about four months in start off with the JavaScript for some odd reason I took HTML and CSS afterwards and I'm getting the basic Logix and some of the complex stuff is starting to resonate but JavaScript is something else I plan on going front-end for Corporation so I'm going to get better at JavaScript I think HTML and CSS are pretty basic and you will use those while you're freelancing but like I said I'm aiming for corporate

Im interviewing for a jr web dev job in 2 days. And the description says I must know web flow and JavaScript

did html , now doing css, then js, then php, databases. did some js already. css looks beautiful on the screen but programming languages are beautiful to write

Patience

Dont forget to do html and css java script is fun but it will help knowing those as well

How is it going

Any update?

@@fsp2832 Late July of this year, by a stroke of fate, I was introduced by a friend of a family member to a guy who was starting a new tech company from the ground up and was looking for someone early-career in tech but with a strong background in communication (Poli-sci major here, with experience in public speaking/teaching). I hacked together a program in Python (with no prior experience, with a very new framework), showed I had a passion for the subject matter, and after a 2 month internship I got a title bump to SWE. It's an interesting situation since it's an early-stage startup, so I'm technically not getting paid just yet, but the weight of responsibility means lots of growth, and our trajectory looks solid. Everything Dorian mentions in this video is still 100% valid, but for me personally the key components were nailing the fundamentals and being teachable/capable of self-teaching, and networking. If I could go back and change anything about my career transition, I would have built more projects start-to-finish (even small ones at first), and gone to more meetups to network in person. Thanks for bringing this post back to my attention!

How’s it going? Did you find your first dev job?

How many jobs have you applied to and where? LIke linkedin or indeed?

maybe try using tailwind in some of your projects. makes writing css more efficient and pleasant and has made my projects look a lot nicer. (not an ad) but yeah i think just keep working on the ui/ux stuff as much as you can get yourself to :)

@@toebymaguire5108 Thank you :)

Learning is a series of those frustration-aha episodes.

you my friend will be a developer

@@Daddyjs appreciate ya boss

A tip is to look things up outside of the course, either to understand it or to understand it deeper. It's what devs do on a daily basis, even experienced ones. It's all about the goal, learning (reading -> understanding -> finding the best way to solve something) etc.

Great, but you have to learn how to keep moving forward without that excitement, because it will eventually end.

@@danielgonzalez2582 just be excited to learn and aim to always push your self to be a better developer

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DO BOTH, I personally only did free code camp. Ive been web developing for like a 4 years but as soon as covid hit I really got serious and In like 2 years and like 5 months of applying I finally got my First web dev job with salary and amazing benefits you can do this!!

@@Daddyjs thank you for the info and the encouragement. I appreciate it

SAME!

I hope not. Relatively low pay and funky work schedules.

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