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Posted by Kirt Perez
Kirt Perez
7,374 Points

Finished Front End Web Development Track! What's next to learn to obtain a Junior level position?

Hello all! After months of on and off learning, I've finally finished the front end web development track and have gained a plethora of knowledge from it so far. My goal at the moment is to land a junior level front end position. With that said, what other tracks should I be getting into that is provided within Treehouse? They have a Full Stack Javascript track but I'm not interested in doing anything with backend development at the moment. But for anyone that has went through it, is there any important javascript concepts that wasn't taught in the front end web dev track? Concepts that are relevant to just front end? I also wanted to learn React as I hear that is popular, is their React track a good place to learn it? I guess while I have you here, what are some good project ideas to be able to put into a portfolio that is junior level worthy?

Esther AlQaisi
Esther AlQaisi
2,311 Points

Following this thread! These questions relate to me as well

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Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points
Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points

Best way to get noticed as a self taught developer is to create some projects using the things you learned. If you haven't created a github account I would start there. A lot of job openings that are open to self taught developers will ask for your code repositories or to link your websites (web apps) you built or worked on.

Once you learn that you can start to come up with ideas (they don't have to be groundbreaking ideas) and start coding. Your first few projects might not be very professional, but you always learn more by making a bad project than you do from copying code from a tutorial.

If you want some inspiration for project ideas I would recommend going on Codepen and creating an account to look at other cool projects/pens.