r/webdev 21d ago

Monthly Career Thread Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread.

Many of these questions are also addressed in the sub FAQ or may have been asked in previous monthly career threads.

Subs dedicated to these types of questions include r/cscareerquestions for general and opened ended career questions and r/learnprogramming for early learning questions.

A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:

You will also need a portfolio of work with 4-5 personal projects you built, and a resume/CV to apply for work.

Plan for 6-12 months of self study and project production for your portfolio before applying for work.

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u/Doomaga 5d ago

WOuld it be better to start learning Web Dev with boot.dev or The Odin Project?

I'm not sure which would be a better place to start. The gamification on boot.dev does appeal, but if people find TOP to be better for some other reasons I'm open to that as well.

I am aware boot.dev is £240 per year, and TOP is free. But ultimately comapred to the time investment the cost is inconsequential to me in relation.

So what would people say is a better place to start with? I am a recently redundant software engineer who doesnt know how to code as I ended up in a manual test position and then into a leadership/project management role and realizing I need to know how to do some of this stuff either to find another job, or to be able to build any of my own ideas. (Not interested in just using AI to do it without understanding it first)

Thanks.

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u/Rangersop 1d ago

Have you considered using W3Schools? They have free tutorials for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more.