I finished the Front End Web Development track, what should I do next?

Same boat as you. I've been working on my own website and have looked around for some projects to complete to practice my skills.

Hey guys,

I have a question. Are any of you two thinking of just staying front end developers? If not, and even if you are, you can think about just getting your feet wet with the back end development as well. If you are just sticking with the front end, it doesn't hurt to just look at what back end development has to offer. In a real world situation, you as the front end developer will be communicating with the back end developer on occasion and it doesn't hurt to understand what he does and familiarize yourselves with what he is doing.

You can also move on to the business courses if you are thinking of using this new knowledge to start your own company or even just commission yourselves out to the public. There are a lot of courses here that go beyond the programming and visual components so keep looking. Your next step will hinge on what you want to do with yourselves in the future. If anything, take a look at the business courses and see if you like.

Cheers!

I would say to start working on your own projects, while at the same time learning for new tracks. Treehosue does not teach everything there is to know about front end development. So, working on your own project is very valuable; one can learn so much from it. What i would do is work on my own projects; use the knowledge you leaned for freehouse, but at the same time expand your knowledge by learning something new. Anyone can finish a track. However your own projects shows that you learned something.

Yaroslav Kleshchev 's advice is spot-on, wish I can upvote it

There's a Chinese proverb.

I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.

This old wisdom is pretty much the whole secret in learning web development, you can only learn by actually building sites; watching lectures, doing quiz/exercise here at Treehouse would give you the basic knowledge to get started, but until the moment you start writing code for an actual project, you haven't seen how deep the rabbit hole goes.

And TJ Egan

Know any websites that have short 'assignment' projects?

None that I am aware of, my advice is that you can build a personal page of your own, a small HTML game, sth like that. If you're really out of ideas of what to build. Check out this site 180 websites, this is Jennifer Dewalt's website, she was an artist who had no prior experience with programming, and she taught herself how to build website by building 1 small one each day for 180 days. This story generated lots of media buzz, even John Resig, the creator of jQuery was impressed by it. It's truly inspirational seeing what she's able to accomplished in such short amount of time. So check it out, see if you can re-create the mini-websites she has created, it'd be quite a learning experience.

There should be a like button or vote up button here in treehouse. Thanks for the valuable answers. I am in the same boat but not quite there yet. I finished the 1st two parts of the front end track(i.e how to make website and css basic), should I start doing some of my projects or focus on finishing the track. I am quite in a hurry finished them in 2 days. I had some basic knowledge before as well. Now to engrave the things I have learnt, would it be best to get 1 or 2 projects done or carry on finishing the track then start with projects?

This thread is awesome. Thank you.