How To Become A Web Developer
1.Learn Basic Codes :
Martin Ramsin, our CTO and co-founder at CareerFoundry, first learned to code using Codecademy
and free tutorials. He found these online resources helped him with
learning syntax but found the real difficulty occurred when he was
trying to find out which tools to use, how to deploy, understand Git,
etc. In other words, how to work as a web developer. Raffaela
- CareerFoundry’s CEO and co-founder - and Martin founded CareerFoundry
based on these observations as they realised that students need more
than just tutorials to learn web development. They also need the support
and expertise of someone who has already been there. It is for this
reason that our mentors are at the centre of everything we do. While you
are learning to code it’s crucial to have someone you can ask direct
questions to about the small, fiddling things to do with programming,
but what’s also invaluable is having someone on-hand who can give you
advice in your career, help you build a portfolio or find work. We put
together a list of 20 ways you can learn to code, so have a read and
find out which option is best for you. At the end of this post we'll
also be reviewing the best online and offline schools for learning to
code.
As David Shariff, Senior Engineer at Yahoo told us: "Don't settle for knowing a concept, roll your sleeves up and dig as deep as you can."
2.Get Your Goals :
Decide
what you want to create. Do you have an idea for the next big social
network? Do you have an idea for a great app? A useful tool that you’ve
always needed and not found anywhere? If you think there’s a need for it
and it doesn’t already exist, you can be the one to create it. Your app
might be something that your family / job / journey to work has
inspired you to create. For example, top model and longtime coder Lyndsey Scott
created an app for her ‘book’ - the portfolio of photographs, campaigns
and experience that models take along to fashion castings to give
casting directors an idea of what they’ve done before. The app is called
iPort, which allows models to upload their ‘book’ or portfolio onto an iPad. She said: "I built that app because it was something I personally needed,’ she said. ‘My book always ends up looking terrible, the books fall apart, the pages are tearing, it’s dirty, and it’s a mess."
3.Copy Cool Things :
Copy
cool things you find on great websites like widgets, videos, parallax
images etc. (do view source on a page). Add it to your code. Then try to
understand what it is doing. This is a great way to learn any new
skills and impress your friends by having something advanced to show at a
relatively early stage in your learning. Websites like TryRuby are great for practicing what you’ve learnt directly in your browser without having to download any software.
