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Posted by Federico Lemaire
Federico Lemaire
8,423 Points

I'm a little confused, will you help me to take the best path?

Hi everyone! I'm 37 years old, from Argentina. I started studying in Treehouse since around 7 month to become a full stack javascript. I had to pause the studies because of work and now I returned fully time. Now I started with the front-end developer track, and I made my first website with bootstrap, I've learned a lot with Guil Hernandez :)

The thing is that when I try to apply for a job in linkedin I see that almost all the places require to know many things as a junior position, like react, have a github repositories, etc.

I was thinking if you guys can give me a clue about what should I learn and practice, which path should I take into treehouse. I'll appreciate all of the comments!

Thanks a lot just for reading me :)

Ps: Sorry for my english, I may had some mistakes with the grammar or trying to explain myself.

4 Answers

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Hey Federico, I can feel you... If you look at what there is to learn in general and specifically for working professionally - it can seem overwhelming if you look at the long list. And some things also sound scarier than they are... ;-)

So as Steven Parker already pointed out: Look for what seems most important if you look at the requirements + also feel into what you would like to learn (for example you do not have to learn multiple JavaScript frameworks, but choose one that you like to learn AND that is also in demand... Ideally there is an overlap in those two. ;-)

Most important for me personally is to only occasionally look at the list - to create a clear direction. But then really focus on the NEXT step. I know whenever I started thinking about "all the things I still have to learn" it demotivated me immensely (and I stopped a few times for longer periods because of that). Over time I learned to really focus and enjoy this very next step that is in front of me.

And I learned that if I just continue learning every day just a little - then nothing can stop me.

No idea if that is helpful for you - it helped me to enjoy the learning much more.

Happy coding, Nils

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

It sounds like you might best let the requirements you want to meet be your guide, like taking the github and React courses. You might tally up the requirements of positions you are interested in, and start first with learning the skills that are common requirements for the most listings.

Federico Lemaire
Federico Lemaire
8,423 Points
Federico Lemaire
Federico Lemaire
8,423 Points

Thanks a lot guys! It is exactly as you said. I realize that always have like 3 or 5 open tabs with different things to learn in treehouse and as Nils said, I get crazy to know about all the things that I have/like to learn haha. I will follow your advice, I will start with react and when my head get confused or tired, I will watch the git's course.

I don't know if it happened to you, but it is so big everything about js that I start to forget the first things that I've been learning, so I go back and watch it again.

The other thing that it "scares" me is this question, "when do you realize that you know enough js?" I do the challenges and sometimes my result is the same as the teachers but with different ways to get there, sometimes I got stuck, and so on. So this was he reason for me to ask to the community. When do you know enough vanilla js to start with react?

Well I don't want to keep bothering with my dilemas haha. Thanks a lot!!!

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What also helped me is switching the study media when repeating knowledge. Mixing both video-courses and reading kind of help deepen the knowledge somehow better for me. Also hearing learning from different sources about one topic helped me.

For the question "when do you realize that you know enough js" you could engage in something like www.codewars.com . There you get programming challenges for js (and many other programming languages) and they are ranked (like in martial arts) so you can level up as your knowledge grows. Also after each challenge you get examples for solutions of other members for the same task... Very cool platform and quite challenging.

Federico Lemaire
Federico Lemaire
8,423 Points
Federico Lemaire
Federico Lemaire
8,423 Points

Thanks again Nils! I'll reach codewars to see how much I can do there :)

Belive me that I do that, I read, watch youtube videos and stuff all the time. What I learned is to search for specific information that I need for a project when I don't know how to do it and that helps me a lot. Hope to find a job and I'll tell you if that happend haha... Have a great weekend!