Web developer career??

[Rosy87]

Dear All
I am considering to build my new career in a web development environment. I know there are a courses to follow for achieve some knowledge about coding and more. Does anyone of you follow this career? Which course do you suggest? What about the job opportunity?
Thank you

Hey Rosy.

What have you done already? If you've not done anything, the very first thing to do (which you can do tonight), is to go off and sign up for a free course.

DO NOT PAY OUT LOTS OF MONEY until you have made full use of all the tons of free resources out there on the web for learning web development. There are a lot of sites with free beginner courses, that charge for more in-depth stuff - but you can work through a lot by yourself without spending lots of money.

For example, if you know nothing yet, try this course tonight: www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html

Then, if you liked that, this website here gives you a full curriculum made up of free resources from all over the place, that they've gathered together to give you the basic foundations for learning web development:

www.theodinproject.com/

They use it to promote their coding bootcamp, but you can learn from just following it online without having to pay anything.

Another good alternative is this: www.freecodecamp.org/

I would recommend not paying money for any bootcamp type coding course unless you have very clear information from them about how exactly they will get you a job afterwards. A decent bootcamp will be able to quote how many of their trainees got tech jobs afterwards, and will do a lot towards getting you placements/interviews etc. Sometimes they make fees dependent on you actually getting a job.

It can be really hard to break in and get that first job in web development - which is why it's not a great idea to spend ££££ on an expensive course if they only make vague promises about getting you a job afterwards. Try to do as much as you can without spending money. If you learn stuff for free, then even if you decide web dev isn't for you, you will have picked up some handy skills that you can use in other jobs.

Check out makers academy and north coders. I've heard extremely good things about people that have completed their courses

I take contact with makers academy and General assembly. I will do just the course in London but after I would like to work in Liverpool where I want to move

Do you think will be possible learn as much as I can alone without follow one of the expensive course and after find a job?

Rosy, there are many free resources online. Start with the free ones and see how you get on. You can learn a lot on your own, plus there are loads of online communities where you can get help from, once you get going.

Do you have an idea what kind of work you want to specialise in? Or do you want to see which languages / platforms appeal once you have started exploring and trying things out?

I started to learn something about coding with udemy. I am still don't know about specialising because I like front end but at the same time I would like to do a full stack for have more job opportunity

A big part of being a web designer is showing initiative, problem solving, researching solutions, bring proactive, and making things happen for yourself. A lot of it is about being a particular kind of person.

Personally, I've done a fair bit of training through free online courses, and through Lynda.com, and I have paid for some graphic design courses and for some conferences I've attended.

There's lots of money to be made out there, and you can work in-house or from home - there are lots of options. Tomorrow I have a meeting with a friend who's desperately looking for someone to build websites for his clients, and I'm too busy to do them for him. There's loads of work out there to be had.

You need to start doing some online courses and building some websites. You need to do lots of research, join some Facebook and online groups, join some local groups where you live, go to some bookshops and read some books, and find some information for yourself.

Show us a website you've built, and we'll give you some feedback.

Which kind of course did you follow? And that course helped you to find a job?

I can't remember which courses I took, and tbh it wouldn't help you particularly to know which I did take as they were a long time ago and things change so fast that you'll be continuing to take courses throughout your web design career.

You just need to stop asking people what to do, and get started on something. Show us a website you've built, and we'll give you some feedback.