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Owen Schebella
Owen Schebella
4,392 Points
Posted by Owen Schebella
Owen Schebella
4,392 Points

Best areas to get into? Freelance-wise

Hey everyone! I'm only some 700 or so points into my training here in the last week but I'm very passionate about getting involved in design/development etc but I am actually pretty unsure as to what the best areas are to focus on because there is so many different avenues to take even just in regards to languages. With the intention of doing freelance or contract work in the future, would it be best to work on mostly HTML & CSS for website development or should I be focusing on languages like Ruby or learning Swift for ios apps? Any guidance or opinions from those with experience in the industry would be greatly appreciated! :D

2 Answers

Mat Sanders
Mat Sanders
4,819 Points
Mat Sanders
Mat Sanders
4,819 Points

Well you have several ways to go.

Mobile, learn ios and android. You can either try for the next billion dollar idea(good luck), or do small time work for people who can't code and need someone to make their apps for them.

Desktop, I would suggest looking at some sort of C variant. Like C++ or C#. These are what most companies want there code written in. Of course this is the most complex and hardest choice of all your choices, but it's more long term work.

Web, this area I would say you need to learn php,css,html5. Before tackling ruby or what ever framework you want to learn. This area is so widely diverse that it's hard to tell you which one you need to learn since every project is different and uses different components.