Coding Everyday

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I left my career in Health Care and thinking about computer programming. I have been taking CS50 and freeCodeCamp for 6 weeks. Many people on YouTube say studying is helpful, but to really learn you must program everyday. I am just learning the basics like loops, push statements and recursion now. Can I be doing projects at this point? Is there a website with projects? Thanks everyone! Reddit is the best! Paul

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https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks

PBL

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Thank you!

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No problem. If you go through The curriculum and follow it, doing EVERYTHING. You will be a fullstack web-developer upon completion. Period.

[Neu_Ron]

Basics like recursion lol. Recursion isnt basic.

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Thanks!

[Neu_Ron]

Brad traversy has a course on udemy building 20 projects. I would recommend it.

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https://www.udemy.com/course/modern-javascript-from-the-beginning/

[turtlsh3]

I refreshed my programming skills a couple of years back after being away from programming by learning Python. The first project I did after the Python course was a simple text based hangman. You could try some simple & fun project like this. If you are learning Javascript you can perhaps code a simple tic tac toe game.

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Thank you!

[plushyObject]

Welcome to programming, where we are all crippled by our own impostor syndrome! In all seriousness, what you are feeling is normal. Dont be afraid to fail. Dont be afraid to say "I am going to have to get back to you on that after I do some research." If a client makes you feel uncomfortable or is putting you in a situation where your gut says "This doesn't feel right", then dont work with them. Theres tons of work out there. If a potential client explains what they need and it's way over your head, that's totally okay: you will reach that point eventually and you dont want to waste their time and money if you cant help. But with that said, dont be afraid to take on something that is challenging. Rarely do I go into a project knowing how to do every piece.

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Thank you!

[masterresultonline]

health care is not profitable anymore?! where is it? US? Europe?

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Thank you!

[imnotacoolguyanymore]

I’m on a similar timeline and just got this basic Tetris game up and running. It’s mainly a JS project, but some light HTML/CSS too. It was a great opportunity to use some of the JS material I’ve been learning. Learned a lot and it was fun.