What would you recommend for building your skills?
I know this seems like a very obvious question. But I mean with regards to job searches. Even internships seem to require a variety of skills these days. I'm interested in both web development and just recently have considered data analysis. Should I work on tutorials and personal projects for a single skill or framework at a time? Or make small projects across a wide variety of things so I can put those skills on my resume?
It's probably easiest to build something fun or interesting, but any coding is good practice.
Or look at job specs you're interested in and try to build something based on that.
I'm trying to do the job specs, but the net is just so wide. But yeah, it looks like personal projects is the way to go.
"Build shit" is 100% the answer. Bonus points if you can finish it and put it up on GitHub or wherever. But not necessary.
My go-to is always "pick something that already exists, and just remake it" because that gives you very concrete, achievable goals. Something as simple as dir.exe, or ls, or some other CLI tool.
I would say focused – and then try and solve problems that annoy/impact you or others – rather than just going through a checklist of tutorials.
Personal project for sure. Build something you want. If you want to learn a particular skill/framework try to think of a personal project that could use it.
Just following tutorials with no goal in mind is too boring.
Learn some boring industry standard language if you want a job.
If I don't know any insiders, where could I learn this kind of stuff? Industry podcasts?
Look at 10,20,50,100 job specs and see what's the most common
For extra fun web scrape those adverts and process the content using code.
As a professional developer nearing 20 years of experience, I am a fan of freecodecamp.org
They have a new book that covers a lot of this, both the upskilling and the interview specifically, https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/
Currently working on the responsive web development course. I like the guitar sounds. 😅