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aaron considine
aaron considine
1,606 Points
Posted by aaron considine
aaron considine
1,606 Points

New to coding, where should I begin here if wanting to start a career as a front end developer?

Hello,

Not sure where I should begin here if I'm wanting to begin a career as a front end developer. So many courses here that it is overwhelming. What courses should I focus on? Also, should I work on developing some type of portfolio to show potential employers down the road?

5 Answers

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Focus on HTML, CSS, Javascript, Design, and Development tool courses.

jamescool
jamescool
44,592 Points
jamescool
jamescool
44,592 Points

Just hop on the front-end web development track! A suggestion: while it's valuable to dabble in neighboring fields, it might be smartest to focus as much as possible on one domain (either development or design, for example), and to focus intensely on one programming language to the best of your abilities. If you start hopping around at an early stage, you'll have trouble becoming excellent at one technology. hope that helps!

aaron considine
aaron considine
1,606 Points
aaron considine
aaron considine
1,606 Points

Thanks alot ghost and James. I appreciate that. At the same time while focusing on these courses should I be building some type of resume to show employers? I want to be job ready by the time I go through HTML, CSS, Javascript, Design and Development tool courses as ghost code mentions. Once I go through all these courses what will I have to show for it? That's were I get confused.

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

You will have nothing really but a profile with some points and some small projects you build in Treehouse. You won't have anything to impress an employer until you go out and start building stuff. You will need to take your new skills and go make something to show. That could be a website app you create or some portfolio work from a few clients.

aaron considine
aaron considine
1,606 Points
aaron considine
aaron considine
1,606 Points

Thanks Ghost, yea, I will probably do some free work and projects to build a portfolio. I know some online training programs offer to help you build a portfolio for interviews. Didn't know if Treehouse might be working on something like that. That would be awesome because Treehouse is by far the best training site I have come across.

jamescool
jamescool
44,592 Points

Good news! Something like that already exists: https://teamtreehouse.com/career

aaron considine
aaron considine
1,606 Points
aaron considine
aaron considine
1,606 Points

Nice! But when I click on the link it says " Bummer! You don't have permission to view that page."

Also...how many hours a week would you recommend someone devote to learning front end web development if they have a full time job? I am currently working 40 hours a week. Just wondering how many hours to devote if I want to have a coding job in 3 to 6 months?