Why Should You Start Working on Projects

Start your coding career by starting a project

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Are you confused about starting a project? Whenever you are confused about start something ask yourself “Why?”. Starting a project is an inevitable part of your coding career. Here I share with you 5 solid reasons why should you start a project. Lots of people think that projects only can be completed by experienced programmers. In fact, there are projects for all levels across many different programming genres.

Usually, I forgot everything I studied after the final exams. You too do that, right? But practical learning won’t betray you. For myself, working on projects improved my coding skills a lot. When I try to master a programming language I stuck at learning and confused about my level, that I earned the programming language enough or not. While doing the projects I learned the things I didn’t and got a clear view.

1. Efficient way to learn programming

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You can’t learn to swim by watching tutorials. Do you want to swim? Just jump into the pool and start swimming. Like that, you can’t learn coding from websites, tutorials and even from paid courses. Lots of practice and implementation make you a better programmer.

You may solve problems from the internet and run programs on IDE, but that’s not enough to build your coding skills. Working on projects will make you a skilled programmer. And also give you a handful of experience. It’s the fastest and best to way learn coding.

2. Change your perspective

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As a beginner, you run your codes on IDE and watch your successful outputs gratefully, don’t you? But working on frameworks(tool to build projects like Android studio) differs a lot from IDEs. The codes you write in the frameworks slightly vary from normal codes.

Frameworks have tons of stuff, you don’t have to learn or memorize them all. you can google them. You have to be strong on the fundamentals and you can simply google the things you don’t know. Projects make you better at googling and your ideas into real things.

3. Boost up your creativity

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The coolest thing about projects is you can build whatever you want, there are no limits. You can make your sudden ideas into valuable things. Plus, it’s fun to do. At the initial stage try to work on open source projects or build pre-exist projects with source code(for reference) from Github.

You can build your own brand and earn money from your work. Every successful brand was just an idea once. Working on the front-end is like making a piece of art. You can unleash your creative beast and make an attractive user interface.

4. You will learn many other things

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By doing the projects you can master the programming language you learning. But also, you will learn front-end designing, databases, APIs, etc. It took me less than two days to learn enough of the database(SQL) to build my project and fortunately I got some help from my brother who is also a software developer.

If you are working on content-based projects, you will learn things other than programming like e-commerce, marketing, networking, science, etc. Projects help you to know your capability while working independently.

5. Enhance yourself

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While working on projects you will come through lots of problems. The more problems you solve more the experience you get. Encountering errors makes it easy to do future projects and you can help your colleagues with that knowledge.

You can strengthen your resume by mentioning the projects you worked on. Companies are most likely to hire people who worked on projects. They recognize that you have the ability to apply your knowledge and make the work easier.

Conclusion

Sometimes coding can be time-consuming and frustrating. Don’t worry, take some rest, involve in some fun activity like chat with other programmers, read other people’s code, read and write blogs, etc. Working on side projects is also fun and it motivates you on your coding journey.

Every student should involve in project-based learning. There are lots of free resources for learning, and there are lots of benefits to working on projects. Start your project today, it may be your own project or internship or project from the internet, just start doing. Then consistently work on it until you complete the work. I hope my writing was helpful. Happy coding!

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.