My Journey Into Web Development

Hi.

I'm Dipo and welcome to my little talk about how my journey into web development has been for about 6 months.

I am actually writing this article because of an internship role Im currently interested in. And that's the HNG Internship. Many Nigerians and some non-nigerians are familiar with this internship. Anyone can sign up for this internship using this link: https://internship.zuri.team

To move from the stage I currently am, I was required to make this write-up as I typically don't like writing. But, here goes nothing.

Like everybody else who is into software engineering, I started my learning from freecodecamp as it it completely free to use and easily accessible to anyone. But, I honestly got bored and wanted more. So I went on Udemy to look for courses that would help me and I found Colt Steele's bootcamp course into web dev. Here's a link to help if you feel like checking it out https://www.udemy.com/course/the-web-developer-bootcamp/. The course covers foundational topics such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript for it's frontend section and for backend, it used NodeJS which really solidify my JavaScript understand.

I completed this course in 3 months and by then I had done so many projects and also pushed to GitHub. If you're reading this and you don't know what GitHub is. It is a cloud platform that allows developers push their code online whether to a private or public folder. It basically makes life easy for us to share code as developers. Here's a link to help you start out https://youtu.be/DVRQoVRzMIY.

Also, developing for the often means we are working with some sort of design and these days there are many softwares used out there to create design. Examples are Figma, Adobe XD and so on.

Figma is widely used and fairly easy to understand and I'd recommend watching this video to understand what goes on there https://youtu.be/1MbQaYCCzzI.

I think it would be unfair to you reading this if I don't tell you why I decided to do this internship. Studying and building things alone can be a bit*h and it is often recommended that you learn with people so you can really test out your knowledge on stuff. So, at the end the 8 weeks internship, I hope to have networked with a lot of people in and out of my current technology stack and to give me the confidence to work on project that are genuinely mine. Not something from YouTube or some capstone project at the end of a course.

So yeah. If you stuck around to this point of the article you're and OG, and I appreciate it. Thank you so much for you time. I hope you learnt a little bit.