These Resources helped me Become a Full Stack Developer
A month ago, I told everyone about how I became a Full Stack Software Developer in about 7 months. That post reached out to so many people, so here’s more!
Right now, I believe in project based learning (try building a project and learn things along the way because of it).
But before building a project, it is good to have a little bit of understanding about the concepts.
There are a lot of YouTube channels that can teach you web development. Honestly, stop experimenting every channel and just pick one!
Let’s not beat around the bush now.
Here are some free and paid resources that helped me land the internship and later the full time position.
The Complete 2023 Web Development Bootcamp (Paid)
For the full stack web development, I bought the “The Complete 2023 Web Development Bootcamp” course by Angela Yu (in my time, it was the year 2022).
You can get it for about INR 449 on Udemy.
I found this course to be well taught. Most of the web dev topics were included, along with some terminal/command line commands and tips on general things like how to study and how to keep moving forward with the topics.
Free Resources
Now, my tech stack (the technologies that I work with excluding HTML, CSS and JavaScript) include:
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Express
- React Native
Therefore, some YouTube channels that I recommend to everyone are:
For Frontend Web Development
Web Dev Simplified
(Videos about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, etc.)
Pretty great YouTube channel to get started in web development. Honestly, one of the first channels that introduced me to the world of web dev.
CodeWithHarry (in Hindi)
Covers HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node.js, etc.)
I have watched his Web Dev playlist and it is good if someone wants to study in Hindi language.
Akshay Saini (JavaScript)
The ultimate destination for the understanding of JavaScript concepts and interview prepartion. I am still watching the Namaste JavaScript playlist.
Kevin Powell
CSS! CSS! CSS!
He teaches CSS so well keeping concepts like layout and spacing in mind. Includes a lot of tips, tricks and best practices too.
Fireship
Amazing channel for experienced developers + beginners. Tells a lot about coding in just a short amount of time (in literally 2 minutes!).
Includes very high quality 100 second videos (for just introducing a new technology/tool/framework).
Traversy Media
A renowned channel in the software development space on YouTube, it has so many good crash courses (videos of about 1–2 hours).
They will surely get you started with the tools and frameworks that you want to learn. I have watched his MERN stack video where he created a REST API with basic CRUD operations using the best practices.
For Backend Web Development
- Master the BACKEND in One Video by 6 Pack Programmer (Hindi)
This 6 hour course includes Node.js, Express, APIs and a CRUD project including authentication (with React). I took help of this video to make the backend of my sample project.
A Tip
Do NOT linger on a YouTube video for much longer. Pick up a project idea and just start building it! If it is good, just write it on your resume!
Additionally, if you run into various problems into your day to day coding and not able to find a solution for it, you can check out my “Coding Solutions” GitHub repository.
Here I have listed down helpful links and solutions to various coding problems that I come across during day to day coding. I keep on updating this time to time.
