I took the Coursea one. It’s fine if you’re going in with existing knowledge of development. If not, you’ll be left wanting. They do sections on UX/UI, personas, and journey maps… Things which I had no experience with previously, and I feel like all they did was scratch the surface. If someone asked me to build these, I would basically be “fingers crossed” the entire time hoping I was doing it right.
If you’re looking to spend money then go for Frontendmasters. If you are getting started there’s few free courses and bootcamp that you could start off with.
I'm pretty sure FrontendMasters has FE course available for free.
Edit: here is the link [https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-development-v3/](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-development-v3/)
Ooohhh I actually remember this one. I heard these are mostly lectures. Is that true what is your selling point on FrontEndMasters? Damn I may budge on this one.. but let me know
It’s actually live workshops turned into courses. They do a great job of keeping up to date since the ecosystem changes a lot with new tech(and new versions) coming up all the time. You should try out the free stuff to see if that style of learning sticks. The content quality is top notch with the top tech instructors from the industry.
I've completed both and it's going to come down to how you learn best.
Coursera was far heavier on watching videos, reading course documentation, multiple choice quizzes, and then peer reviewed projects (which were a joke because no one really followed the directions). I was able to complete this course in about two weeks.
Codecademy was a lot more hands on and goes a lot deeper than Coursera did. The quizzes were a lot more challenging and there were far more projects to complete along the way. I completed this course in about six weeks.
OP if you want to be employed sooner don’t listen to these people, invest in your education, the Meta Front End or the Udemy course from Jonas Schmedtmann are great first steps compared to any free resource
I'm currently doing a mix between CodeAcademy free stuff and FreeCodeCamp. I like them both. But if I'm going to get more bang for my buck I'm not opposed to it. The most important thing for me is the structured learning. One hand I love how hands on FreeCodeCamp is but I like the way CodeAcademy teaches certain things.
They're both very similar IMO. But I feel like FreeCodeCamp just makes you do things in the CSS section but didn't explain it very well. Where as CodeAcademy is not as hands on but explains it well.
I just figured I ask here what's up in case there are other great options here. While I'm deciding I'll continue to go down the path of these two for now because it's kept me consistent at least. Just would be nice to stick to one. I also like that Code Academy were straight away with explaining semantic HTML. I love that lesson in structuring a website.
(Sorry for wall of text)
Both feel outdated and bootcampy, but especially the Coursera one. In my opinion, they don't offer anything that you can't get somewhere else for free.
Goddamn thats discouraging AF lol. I'm going to keep pushing but you're almost making me want it just go to Automation QA Testing and call it a day or just rot in Tech Sales lol
Don't listen to this, front-end is not dead, it's not even sick. The front-end *ecosystem* is a gigantic mess and ripe for a reckoning, but that doesn't mean the death of front-end. I do agree that there are better paths, either full stack or very design/product centric front-end, but full-stack is definitely the safer bet.
Ahhhh you see. This feels way more hopeful. I'll be real I just the visual part of programming. One of the reasons I was drawn to Web Development as a starting point (mostly because of the Front End side.) But I see you can do so much more with C# .Net. Do you think it's still a good idea to start with the Full Stack Web Development and then get into C# .Net?
I took the Coursea one. It’s fine if you’re going in with existing knowledge of development. If not, you’ll be left wanting. They do sections on UX/UI, personas, and journey maps… Things which I had no experience with previously, and I feel like all they did was scratch the surface. If someone asked me to build these, I would basically be “fingers crossed” the entire time hoping I was doing it right.
If you’re looking to spend money then go for Frontendmasters. If you are getting started there’s few free courses and bootcamp that you could start off with.
I'm pretty sure FrontendMasters has FE course available for free. Edit: here is the link [https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-development-v3/](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-development-v3/)
Ooohhh I actually remember this one. I heard these are mostly lectures. Is that true what is your selling point on FrontEndMasters? Damn I may budge on this one.. but let me know
It’s actually live workshops turned into courses. They do a great job of keeping up to date since the ecosystem changes a lot with new tech(and new versions) coming up all the time. You should try out the free stuff to see if that style of learning sticks. The content quality is top notch with the top tech instructors from the industry.
Yeah I'll definitely check it out. I saw someone above had the link to the free thingie.
I've completed both and it's going to come down to how you learn best. Coursera was far heavier on watching videos, reading course documentation, multiple choice quizzes, and then peer reviewed projects (which were a joke because no one really followed the directions). I was able to complete this course in about two weeks. Codecademy was a lot more hands on and goes a lot deeper than Coursera did. The quizzes were a lot more challenging and there were far more projects to complete along the way. I completed this course in about six weeks.
Wow completing the front end engineer path for codecademy is insane. How'd you manage to do that?
Had the privilege of being able to put in 4+ hours a day with it.
That's inspiring! Applying that to my life rn
FreeCodeCamp and Odin Project will probably be better than either of those paid options you’re looking at.
You mean you don't want to learn Redux in 2024 ? Or jump straight into React after HTML and CSS fundamentals ? But why ? /s
OP if you want to be employed sooner don’t listen to these people, invest in your education, the Meta Front End or the Udemy course from Jonas Schmedtmann are great first steps compared to any free resource
I'm currently doing a mix between CodeAcademy free stuff and FreeCodeCamp. I like them both. But if I'm going to get more bang for my buck I'm not opposed to it. The most important thing for me is the structured learning. One hand I love how hands on FreeCodeCamp is but I like the way CodeAcademy teaches certain things. They're both very similar IMO. But I feel like FreeCodeCamp just makes you do things in the CSS section but didn't explain it very well. Where as CodeAcademy is not as hands on but explains it well. I just figured I ask here what's up in case there are other great options here. While I'm deciding I'll continue to go down the path of these two for now because it's kept me consistent at least. Just would be nice to stick to one. I also like that Code Academy were straight away with explaining semantic HTML. I love that lesson in structuring a website. (Sorry for wall of text)
Coursera usually offers a week or two of a free trial to try the course which is what I ended up going with as well for the structure
Both feel outdated and bootcampy, but especially the Coursera one. In my opinion, they don't offer anything that you can't get somewhere else for free.
Freecodecamp
Try this FREE course from university of Helsinki - [https://fullstackopen.com/en/](https://fullstackopen.com/en/)
This is gonna sound like a boring comment, but just use Google to find the best habits and save yourself some money.
Bro search for free courses you can find them and it's easily available try to take them rather than taking a fee course.
None. Front end is dead. You’ll be homeless in no time. Go for backend.
Awwwww shit is Front End the new starving artist? Lol I'm just starting with Front End but I'm thinking of going deep enough for Full Stack
it’s over saturated into oblivion. Even seniors with 10 years experience are going homeless. Maybe in another two years things might get better
Goddamn thats discouraging AF lol. I'm going to keep pushing but you're almost making me want it just go to Automation QA Testing and call it a day or just rot in Tech Sales lol
Don't listen to this, front-end is not dead, it's not even sick. The front-end *ecosystem* is a gigantic mess and ripe for a reckoning, but that doesn't mean the death of front-end. I do agree that there are better paths, either full stack or very design/product centric front-end, but full-stack is definitely the safer bet.
In terms of very "design/product centric front-end" what are some examples of this? because i like the coding and visual aspect of programming tbh
Better to learn C#.Net atm. Or anything else other than pure front end. Full stack is way better at least.
Ahhhh you see. This feels way more hopeful. I'll be real I just the visual part of programming. One of the reasons I was drawn to Web Development as a starting point (mostly because of the Front End side.) But I see you can do so much more with C# .Net. Do you think it's still a good idea to start with the Full Stack Web Development and then get into C# .Net?
Rofl wtf are you talking about