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Discussion on: Took a leap of faith this year to pursue a career in programming. Shipped my first thing recently, here's my experience.

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Shaiju T

Congratulations 😄, How many months it took to learn HTML, CSS, React, JavaScript and TypeScript by looking at documentations ?

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Hannah Ong

Thanks! If I try to timestamp everything:
-For HTML, CSS, JS, I kickstarted my learning with freecodecamp, which took about 2-3 weeks? I remember feeling like I really crammed this since I was still working at the time lol. Whenever I have a question, I'll go look it up on MDN.
-For React it's a mixture of resources, but I followed an MDN tutorial which was really helpful and took only a day or so to get through (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/L...) (I liked it better than the React tutorial..., sorry React!) But I still go to their documentation when I get confused on anything in regards to hooks or syntax or anything else!
-TypeScript.. I'm still learning! But I didn't need more than a day to get started!

I'm no expert in any of these areas, but it was easier than I thought to get code together make something functional :) The site itself took me about 3-4 days to build, and it took my husband around the same time for the backend. :)