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Looking to make a career change and have some experience with coding html/css/java and want to take it to the next level. Any recommendations?

Looking to make a career change and have some experience with coding html/css/java and want to take it to the next level. Any recommendations?

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Assuming you want to do an online boot camp? Some people work better with in-person learning, just depends on what works best for you.

If you can learn while pacing yourself, there's many excellent self paced classes that are practically free, with highly qualified instructors. I've done 5 courses online from Tim Buchalka, because I like his teaching style. And only paid about $100 for a college semesters worth of instruction.

I wasn't trying to change careers, just expand my knowledge in my current job while learning part time, and that worked out well for me.

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Given the relationship of html/css to java, I think you mean javascript.

I've been coding for more years then I'm willing to publicly admit. What I would recommend is watching a few starting videos on youtube and after you have some of the basics down, start a small project. Programming books are ok, mostly for reference. If you run into problems, look at stack overflow for solutions and learn to read the documentation. Once you have a little experience, join an open source project and help them solve bugs in their code. You'll get guidance from the other members and they'll teach you about working on a project. After you have some actual programming contributions, you can go out into the market place and companies will be willing to take a risk on you.

If that doesn't sound appealing, then coding might not be your thing because that is 60% of what we do. Read documentation and look up how to solve problems you're unfamiliar with while working on a project.

I've never done a bootcamp. It sounds like they work for some people but I would rather just do it myself

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Correct, javascript. Thank you. The reason I'm leaning toward bootcamp is that I'm currently unemployed with a growing family and I figure that having that certification at the end of the process will help me to secure a job more quickly while also building projects along the way. I'm confident that I could learn it on my own, as that is how I started my journey initially and I have enough of a financial cushion to support us for a while, but at the end of the day, I need to put the pedal to the metal and get this show on the road as fast as I can.

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Yeah, I hear you. It might be the foot in the door you need. I would reach out to some of the companies that you would think about applying to and speak to the lead dev. I bet most guys would be willing to offer some advice to someone looking into the field. Plus you would be targeting exactly what they're looking for.

oh yeah, networking is a good thing too. There should be some programming meet groups in your area, for sure companies use those to scout for talent. And it's a good way to stay on top of current happenings.

anyways man, I wish you the best of luck. I hope it works out for you.

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I really appreciate the input. Thanks!

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I've never done a boot camp but I've considered creating one because they're easy money.

The way to teach yourself is to build things. If you want a project idea build an engine that behaves like a web crawler and only indexes pages that are banned from Google, then a page that lets you do a basic search of your wrongthink index.

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get a subscription to pluralsight and go through one of their training roadmaps. also, invest in intellij ultimate. trying to cobble together a set of ide's for your various languages is a major hurdle when you're starting off. idea ultimate has everything in a single package, so you only have two learn a single tool on top of the languages.

if you have to ask and aren't autistic enough to figure how to build tech things on your own find a different career. Tech is gay. COL is through the roof in tech cities. Go into health field, government, or accounting or some shit. A professional degree is worth more than a bootcamp.

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I already have a fair amount of coding down and I’m very inclined to learn on my own, but with a 2 year old and one on the way, it would seem to be the most sure fire way to secure a decent job quickly. And I’m coming from a health field I’m no longer welcome in due to mandates, but thanks for all the assumptions asshole.

And I’m coming from a health field I’m no longer welcome in due to mandates, but thanks for all the assumptions asshole.

Fake a COVID card - there isn't even an interstate database, dumbass. If you can't figure that out you have no place in tech. Muh codingbootcamp meme.

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You're an idiot and have no idea how hospitals work. They're healthcare facilities with access to all your medical records. My god, you're fucking dumb.