Holy Grail of code: The essential junior developer study hacks
Are you looking to become a junior developer? If so, you’re in luck! These hacks will ACCELERATE your study plan. So read on and start preparing yourself for an amazing career in tech!
I wrote this post as a companion to my Holy grail of code: The essential junior developer guide— Expanding on the study hacks section into a simplified study plan and workflow.
Prime directive
Your ultimate focus is to build projects for a portfolio. Your portfolio will be a website that showcases your projects. Through learning web technologies you will learn how to create a website or web application.
The first project will be a blog, and built twice — first using your primary workflow — Inside a docker image or on top of an install of Appwrite. Then it will be rebuilt using the traditional web stack: HTML, CSS and PHP.
This initial project will then be re-used to create a bug tracker. And if you choose to do more, you can adapt your first blog to build a financial portal and work order system.
Sounds like an alien language? No worries, I’ll explain these terms below.
