Re:Show HN: Coding Career Handbook
by humanlion87 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:04AM
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Was 2017 the time you switched careers from finance and learned to code via freeCodeCamp? Or did you switch before 2017 but started learning new stuff (say a new language) on freeCodeCamp in 2017? If it is the former, that's great progress getting to Senior level in less than 3 years! Congrats
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short form - i started doing FCC in nights and weekends from Nov 2016 - Mar 2017, then quit and went all in in Jun 2017 and went to an NYC bootcamp to top up my FCC knowledge and also get my first dev job.
here's the long form story - https://medium.com/hackernoon/no-zero-days-my-path-from-code... - ive been harangued over this before so i should be clear that i have done programming prior to starting FCC - just that it was basic self taught data munging stuff, not web dev. i definitely did not start from zero, but i also definitely felt very out of my depth learning the JS/Web stack in 2017 and it took me a year to get to the point where I could credibly apply for a frontend dev job.
thanks!