New course participant! -Question about coding in general #792
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Hi Everyone, New to the course and currently on lesson 4. Going for a career change into web/web3 development! I'm really enjoying it, but definitely am struggling with the meaning behind a lot of the javascript/solidity code, as I am a beginner there. I know intermediate python(learned 2 years ago and haven't done much with since) but that isn't helping me understand what's going on in javascript. Should I keep pushing through to lesson 9, where we start learning more javascript, or shall I pause and take a separate course about javascript first? Any recommendations or advice would be helpful! |
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@Lakings8 This course is not using a much deeper level of JavaScript you just the basics of programming and that's it. If you are not comfortable even with basics, like variables, functions, parameters, data types, etc, then I recommend first learn the basics (JavaScript Recommended) and then continue the course. |
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Thank you so much for the reply! |
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I URGE you to stop the course right now if you are not grasping things properly, as it progressively gets harder - and also as this is by far the best course to get your feet wet in the web3 space.
I will recommend going through 1->HTML, 2->CSS and then a full JavaScript fundamentals course; and then crash courses on Node, React and Next (if you like, you can commit further of your time into these, but for this course you will have sufficient knowledge from crash courses alone). Whenever you have doubts just open an issue/discussion - we'll help you! I wish you all the best! |
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Thank you so much! Looks like I need to start at the basics and lay the groundwork before I can learn web3 coding. I've done some research on building my knowledge with full stack, and I think I may do either do:
Have you seen any of these, or have a preference on another or one of these? |
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Well, it depends. Before spending money (so many free resources!) or even worse, wasting lots of time on something you don't really wanna continue doing - you should contemplate first about what your vision is. If it is web3, this is a really good place to start after getting the aforementioned fundamentals down (you can always commit more time doing full courses or via self-learning if you like that specific thing). Goodluck! |
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That is great insight. Thank you for that. Definitely don't want to waste time. But, the most fun I've had was coding and building things. If my vision is to be in web3, and build Dapps, should I start with the fundamentals course(ie self directed or bootcamp) and then move on to the full blockchain course? Or can I do them together? |
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You do not really have to be a master per se, to go through this course. But having fundamentals will help you grasp what's actually happening (for instance: React hooks will be so confusing without full-stack fundamentals) Also - while web3 resources are more than ever before, it still pales in comparison to the others, so self-learning will be even more emphasized here. |
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Before taking this course I would highly recommend you to take this path:
You don't have to master things but you should have a good idea about all these techs & tools :) |
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Thank you for sending me this. Very helpful. What is the difference between Scrimba and codeacadmy? Do you have a preference? Codeacadmy seems to have full stack, while scrimba has only front end. But maybe it makes sense to learn full stack from scrimba and back end somewhere else? |
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you'll be fine. He also has a 16 hour course using python and brownie |
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Ok thanks for vote of confidence! So you don't think I need much more coding experience to move forward on this? |
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Hi @Lakings8, Andy Harris outlines 7 Big Ideas which enable you to write algorithms and code in any programming language from an understanding of these concepts.
I found it helpful. Good luck in your journey and hope this helps. All the suggestions in this thread are great. |
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Thank you so much! I like that a lot. I will. I'm assuming any resources people have shared, or courses I take, I will learn all of that. |
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I URGE you to stop the course right now if you are not grasping things properly, as it progressively gets harder - and also as this is by far the best course to get your feet wet in the web3 space.
I will recommend going through 1->HTML, 2->CSS and then a full JavaScript fundamentals course; and then crash courses on Node, React and Next (if you like, you can commit further of your time into these, but for this course you will have sufficient knowledge from crash courses alone). Whenever you have doubts just open an issue/discussion - we'll help you!
I wish you all the best!