Ask HN: How you started your career in web dev?

7 points by throwaway_yc 6y ago ↗ HN

Hello Web Devs,

I am switching career to web dev. I need your advice on start learning web dev. How did you start?

Suggest me books, tutorials, and tips.

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mtmail 6y ago ↗

HN archive is full of previous discussions on how to start with web development.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=learn+web+dev&sort=byPopularit...

I keep recommending https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web but previously you wrote you learn python. So tutorials for python+web like https://docs.djangoproject.com/ are better. Don't be discouraged by slow learning, you essentially learn 3-5 languages and 100 concepts and every developer started from zero.

otras 6y ago ↗

First, I'd recommend being suspicious of survivorship bias and following in anyone's footsteps (including any mentioned here). Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1827/

After that, I'd recommend the Coursera course Learning How to Learn as pre-work.

3 free resources I highly recommend:

- Harvard's CS50. Cannot recommend this highly enough.

- MIT's Intro to Programming w/ EdX. Great way to learn more about problem solving

- FreeCodeCamp: Great directed resource for a path to learn front end development. There's so much information out there that it's helpful to have some guidance.

chovy 6y ago ↗

I studied stuff online picked a stack to focus on and then search for remote jobs. I built http://remotejobs.today