Thinking that a handful of free tutorials and short courses would be enough to learn web dev. When I finally started investing time and money into in-depth courses with experienced teachers and planned curriculums, I learned way more, way faster, and retained it a lot better.
In that same vein, I wish I had picked up some certifications earlier on than I did. Once I did that and added them to my LinkedIn profile, I started getting good quality inquiries from agencies/recruiters/employers.
Your mileage may vary, but some paid books/courses/platforms I found helpful in my career path, in the order I did them:
A Better Way to Learn... (series of books, I went through the HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery ones and highly recommend)
Javascript: Novice to Ninja (book, highly recommend although may be a tiny bit dated)
Various Wordpress books and a PHP/MySQL book that I can't remember the name of now. If you're going into Wordpress dev I highly recommend going through an intensive PHP-specific course of some kind, as opposed to just grinding out Wordpress courses and fumbling through the PHP. Makes things way easier
Frontend Masters (online platform, very helpful for learning intermediate to advanced JS)
Academind Vue.js courses on Udemy (I think I did the Complete Intro and their Nuxt.js course too. very easy way to learn Vue, highly recommend any course Academind makes)
Packt (online platform with access to technical books. very hit or miss but I did find a few gems in there)
CS50 (free course through EdX, I opted to pay for the verified cert. highly recommend if you're serious about a career in IT. it's like learning music theory after being a self-taught musician: you can get by fine without, but knowing it will open even more doors)
CS50W (this is the web programming specific follow-up to CS50, i'm about halfway through and took a pause to focus on some career changes that came up, to beef up my JS chops, and to learn React. it's very Python/Django-heavy, but the overall concepts are valuable if you're a web dev and want to be full-stack)
Scrimba.com (i'm going through their Frontend Dev Roadmap course and can't recommend it enough. one of the pricier platforms i've used, but also one of the easiest, best designed, thorough, and up to date. have skilled up quickly on Flexbox/Grid, modern JS, and currently working through their React modules. i feel like i've leveled up the most going through their material, although i'll probably look for something else once i finish the React modules)
Thinking that a handful of free tutorials and short courses would be enough to learn web dev. When I finally started investing time and money into in-depth courses with experienced teachers and planned curriculums, I learned way more, way faster, and retained it a lot better.
In that same vein, I wish I had picked up some certifications earlier on than I did. Once I did that and added them to my LinkedIn profile, I started getting good quality inquiries from agencies/recruiters/employers.
have you got some examples of more in-depth courses?
Your mileage may vary, but some paid books/courses/platforms I found helpful in my career path, in the order I did them:
Hope that helps!
many thanks for your reply. my path does indeed vary but in any case these are extremely valuable resources
thanks a lot for sharing!