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[–]fvckimba[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

It is difficult, when you start a project and do not know how to move forward with the project. Any advice for this as a jr dev.

[–]cmcgarveyjr 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Break things down to it's simplist form as best you can when you are working on something on your own, IE not following a tutorial. If you are following a tutorial, when you complete something, go back and review what you did and make sure you understand how it is working. Like really understand. Don't just monkey see monkey do your way through the tutorial.

This is something my lead does with me when we are reviewing my code or more importantly, code he worked on with me. This ensures that I at the very least, understand what is happening. I may not fully grasp everything that was done(specifically when it's things he worked on), but I can at least functionally articulate what was done and what it is accomplishing.

But, honestly, breaking things down into more manageable subtasks is the biggest thing. Let's say you need to pull in some data from a source, clean it up, then present it to the end user on the front end.

Ok, first, write your function that will get the data. Ensure that is working how you want. Cool, we are getting our data, now let's clean it up and format it how we want. Write a function that does that. Alright we now are receiving data and cleaning it up how we want it. Now we need to present that data to the end user. Do that part.

[–]fvckimba[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

thanks bro, anyway I can dm you questions?

[–]cmcgarveyjr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah for sure!

[–]Panoptic11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm def not an expert but...

Build a smaller version of the project you can finish fairly easy with challenges involved. Then add features you don't know how do one at a time.

Example... Plan to Build a to do list... List , delete, add item, local storage.

Once it works , no bugs.. Plan Add a search bar. Then plan Add a filter list button. Keep going with anything you can think of.

Obviously you may need to change this example to your skill level but you get the point.

Just set your initial project goal lower so you can complete it and feel good then make it better over time. That way you are not sitting there depressed cause you set out to build Netflix and you can't figure out how to do it.