Just finished the React courses on Codeacademy. What now?!
So I just finished the two React courses available on Codeacademy and it's been a lot of fun.
I didn't really like the idea of React (I think mostly because it's developed by Facebook), but I really enjoyed the courses. Highly recommend them to anyone interested.
However... what now?!
I'd like to dig a bit deeper into React, but don't really know where to go from here.
I really liked the Codecademy course so much actually took a full year open courses from them since I liked how great there content was.
I have done Free Code Camp but think Codecademy was better.
Also, there are free and paid resources in this page in the React official website, but I haven't tried these out though.
I don't know the courses from Codeacademy, but I'd suggest you go and try to build something on yourself. When you run into concrete barriers, you can look up how to solve those and learn along the way.
The courses were awesome to learn the very basics of how React works. I'm definitely going to try to build a project in the near future, but I'm in quite a lack of ideas.
Due to limited time, I don't want to pick up a random idea and go with it. I'd like to have something to bring to market, even if it's just an MVP. If the idea isn't there, I don't really enjoy the process that much.
I think creating something will help you learn 100x faster than any course. Start building something and search for instructions on how to do specific tasks when you get blocked by it.
+1 to building something! That’s the best way to learn 👍
I'd recommend reading official react documentation if you skipped this step for whatever reason. The next step is a practice, you should build a shopping list or todo app, etc (simple logic + pure design).
If you'll continue with tutorials - it's a trap, you should avoid the illusion of competence
I'm on the React documentation right now. Skipped it in the beginning, just because the courses were so good at leading me slowly through the basics.
The next step will most probably be a small app, to start getting things solidified a bit. The courses were great, but I don't think I'm going to go through another one. I already feel I'm doing a lot and nothing at the same time, which is very counterproductive.
'I already feel I'm doing a lot and nothing at the same time' it's a super common classic problem. The cure is practice with real life tasks.
I would follow Paul Graham's advice (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) and build something in React you love that solves a specific problem you have in your life.
At worst, you'll solidify your React skills and at best, hey, maybe you'll create a unicorn!
Congratulations on finishing those courses!
Sae
Co-founder of CRUU
CRUU, the best darned React development tool ever invented by humanity this week.
Thank you very much! They were really fun. Haven't done a course in years, so I was quite impressed.
As for startup ideas, I'll have to dig a bit.
Would recommend building a project on it! @pliao39 is also currently running a free Summer of Ship program with awesome mentors (some of whom are Amazon, Google, Uber, Shopify etc. software engineers), which I'd totally recommend you join as you go about working on it!
https://summerofshipping.com/
Thank you for the recommendation! I think this might be quite a good fit. Will sign up!
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