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Adeoye Enoch Olamilekan
Adeoye Enoch Olamilekan

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After 3 years of learning JavaScript, This are the best advice I have for Developers who are just beginning to learn it

Stick with it. 🥹

It gets hard sometimes but it is hard for everyone in the beginning.

Looking up solutions isn’t cheating.

Cutting and pasting without understanding is cheating yourself.

Learn all the Array methods and learn them well. I’m talking about methods like:
👉Array.filter
👉Array.map

Learn how the event loop works 🔁

Learn how promises work

Learn how async/await works

Learn the basics of Node before you try to learn React

Learn how to build and consume API endpoints
When you do learn React, learn it well.

That’s most likely what you’ll find your first job in.

Learn to write unit tests

Build, build, build 😎

Keep all your in-progess projects in private Git repos but keep your finished work in public repos.

Until you’ve built at least ten small projects (calculators, tic-tac-toe games, todo lists, etc) and at least three full-stack projects, you probably don’t know enough to code professionally

Learn to deploy your apps on AWS or a similar service

When you are learning databases, learn SQL before Mongo and learn it well.

SQL is a very underrated skill for developers

Full Udemy courses are far better than following random tutorials.

Your best free resource is Free Code Camp, and it’s not even close

The rewards for all this effort are real.

That first job is hard to get but people can and do teach themselves to code and go on to successful careers

Good luck my friend, welcome to JavaScript 😂

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