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Iโm an aspiring DN and my best chances for getting a job are to continue developing my Front-End skills until I can get a steady stream of income. Iโve never been hired for this kind of work. Before it was just a hobby but now Iโm quite seriousโฆany suggestions to go from 0 to employed in 6 months? Also I live in China.
I taught my wife in 3! Iโve seen 1 pulled off; but that requires 40h/wk of studying. See my post on shortcut learning front-end dev. Big fan of Codecademy / Code School.
Hi Adsieg01
I, like you, decided to become a web developer in order to achieve my goal of being a digital nomad.
This is a video I made on how I landed my first job as a developer in less than 2 months and saved up enough to get started travelling.
I also have an interview with my friend, @dgwolf, who took a similar path to me towards location independence.
I hope these resources help you. Feel free to ask me anymore questions.
Thatโs good to hear! Iโve been doing Tree house furiously for the past week and Iโm a good deal through the Front End Development course and Iโll start on Full Stack JavaScript Next. Now just to get some legit experienceโฆ
you can get legit experience by working on your personal projects. also, there are a shit ton of people out there with ideas but not skills to build them so if itโs something youโre interested in, you could work on those as well.
Could you suggest any โkindโ of projects that look particularly good on a resume/interview? Thereโs a new bar in my neighborhood that could probably use a new website โฆ
Iโd also recommend Treehouse. In fact, this is how Treehouse CEO and founder Ryan Carson advertises the platform: learn an hour a day, be job-ready in 6 months: Learn with Treehouse in an Hour a Day
Hereโs what I did when I want to learn a new programming language:
I used this technique to learn Ruby on Rails. It took me 2 weeks to follow this tutorial, got a running Twitter-like web app, extended the hell out of it to create BucketListly.com. This technique can easily be adapted to anything IMO. The key is to try to find a personal project you are passionate about so that you can stick to it no matter how daunting the process becomes.
I hope this helps! 
Wow, thatโs pretty impressive Pete. Love seeing little side projects used for learning grow into something like that 
Thank you. Side projects are my life blood and are what is driving my professional career.
Totally Pete. Spent the last 18 months on side projects so I know what youโre saying
Treehouse has a new product called the โTechdegreeโ has anybody heard about the quality of this? There regular courses are pretty good for me but this one has a price tag of $399US/Month. I am very goal oriented person and I would love to have some structure to my learning by people who are much more experienced than I am.
Hey AD.
So Iโm a front end developer and have just passed the year mark on my first job in the industry. My first point to make is, it depends what you mean when you say โfront end developerโ.
Depending on the job, that can mean heavy Javascript development (basically the back end on the front end) or it can be more of a UI developer role.
Iโm much more the latter, where my task is to take the rough designs from the designer and transform them into responsive robust user interfaces. My main challenges are asking โwhyโ each thing is like it is, and trying to build a system thatโs concise and robust, rather than hacking styles on styles on styles.
Other โfront end developerโ roles are much more of a โfront end engineerโ role, which is often where React/Angular etc. come in. I donโt do any of these.
I donโt know if Iโm an anomaly, but certainly in my role the company I work for are very happy with my heavy focus on UI development, where I predominantly work in HTML (HAML) & CSS (Sass). Iโd say about 10-15% of my time is Javascript, but even then itโs normally pretty basic stuff.
What Iโm trying to say is, make sure you think about what interests you more, UI development (creating a great system of interfaces) or front end engineering (under the hood work).
Secondly, follow your passion as much as you can. If you genuinely enjoy what you do youโll learn quickly.
I learnt the key skills for my job a month or two before the interview. Admittedly Iโd been fiddling with HTML/CSS for about 7 years before in my spare time, on and off, but I think I could have condensed down all that learning into 3-6 months.
If youโre interested in the more UI developer role, then Iโd really recommend checking out Harry Roberts ITCSS, which for me is fundamental to structuring a stylesheet and understanding how to apply styles in a re-usable manner.
Understand The Specificity Graph.
Seriously consider using BEM to make understanding how each part of your code is related to the code around it.
Look at how to combine ITCSS and BEM with BEMIT.
And hereโs Harry Roberts advice to budding front end developers, might be worth a read.
Thatโs just a start, honestly if youโve any more questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter, Iโm @fredrivett.
Hope that helps.
This is a fantastic answer and I couldnโt agree more. I too am a Front End Developer and I too consider a Front End Engineer someone whoโs much more JavaScript-focused. But, make sure you know how to use jQuery well, and can show and hide elements in a way that uses DRY principles (knowing what $(this) selects is going to help you heaps!).
You need to focus on learning both SASS and LESS because the fundamentals of each are the same, SASS uses $ signs and LESS uses @ signs and has fewer Mixin options; but they both help you write code faster.
I think whatโs just as hard to pick your way through at first are all the tools out there. Hereโs what I use:
Basically, to get to full Front-End Developer in 6 months, build sites on your own that compare to the code on sites you love and know are really well developed.
Iโm @dirtandrust on Twitter.
Hey Fred, youโre not alone. Personally I belong to the JS-heavy class of frontend devs, but one of the other guys here on frontend is UI-heavy like you. The vast majority of his job is writing SCSS, when heโs not heโs usually trying to improve the build system to help him speed up development in that area.
There is not easy, but here is how I got started (In this order):
Hi everyone,
I would love to hear what you'd like me to build next on Nomad List, or any other product/feature feedback ideas you have.
It's been 6+ years now but I'm in this for the long term and with the boost remote work got last year it's even more exciting to work on Nomad List than ever.
Current roadmap is here: twitter.com/levelsio/status/1363204985488572417?s=20 and pbs.twimg.com/media/EusS9PKXEAUR8xp?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
The next products/features I have planned:
- ๐ Rebase: visa, residency and immigration services for remote workers
- ๐Courses: learn the steps how to go remote and travel/relocate
- ๐ Gov liaison: diplomacy services to the governments to help us lobby for nomads and for them to attract remote workers
Thanks a lot!
What are the best places right now in the Caribbean/LatAM? (Also cheapest flights/accommodation?) Asking from the US.
As part of signing up for this website I was hoping I would come across a list of Visa and/or Residency requirements by country ideally in a table format to assist with decision making. Does anybody recommend any other websites that might present the information in this format (or Google Spreadsheet)?
I love living in walkable areas of town. I can always find them. But now I'm wondering where in the world are the most walkable places? I'm imagining walk streets (no cars), zoning allowing both business and residential, parks or beaches ,etc.
Hi guys,
After the Netherlands, the Bay Area, Colorado and being on the van life for 8 months, I am now in Sedona, AZ with a few other digital nomads. We are sharing a home here and are wondering if there are more like minded people in the area.
We do a bunch of hikes and campouts in the northern of Arizona. If you would like to connect with us, please do so :)
Val
Has anyone figured out a way to get setup with a virtual number and internet connection anywhere you go?
Hi everybody. I live and work in Germany and want to go to Canary Islands for 6 months to work from there. I'm going to keep my current job, just change the "home" in the home office part of things. Are there any tax issues I have to be aware of? I was reading about becoming a residence after 183 days, thus having to pay taxes there plus my employer having to register there. Does anybody know how it works exactly? Thanks a lot!
Winter is coming and Iโm feeling the ache of travelling after being stuck in the same place since the Pandemic started. Wondering if anyone is travelling right now? If so, where are you currently located and how is the situation where you are?
Hello World!
I'm an experienced Digital Nomad and after being in Lockdown in Bangkok and Germany for one year I would like to team up with someone to visit a new place. Or just doing some exchange about what destinations would be interesting currently.
I take the virus seriously and still I think we can still be able to take our life in our own hands. So I'm aiming for cities/countries which are not in full lockdown, are not too complicated about immigration (I'm looking at you Thailand, your state quarantine costs like 1k USD and is basically a prison) and is also rather safe regarding the virus. I tend to stick for rather big cities and like culture. I'm not a beach or nature person. I'm pretty flexible about the money topic.
After being told it's unworkable in Puerto Escondido, looking for alternatives :)
Hi, we are trying to find a house to rent for 2-3 persons near Las Palmas for 4-5 months at the moment and it seems to be almost impossible except through Airbnb which is super expensive. Any advises or local contacts?
What I mean is, for example, since most of the EU has banned Americans, if I live in Guatemala and will be traveling FROM Guatemala to the EU, could I get in? Or does the ban count for all Americans regardless of where they live?
I have a slightly above average US income which I can work remotely from paired with a $1000 a month income stream and more than enough to purchase a middle end Flat in Ukraine. Does anyone with knowledge of this process have any advice to acquire a reliable way to stay in the country?
My fiancรฉe and I are most likely moving to NYC (maybe DC) in August, and as a technical startup co-founder I'd love to meet new people that are also into startups. Would joining a co-working space be worth the money to do this?
I work for a big tech company that has an office in NYC, but it's mainly sales so I wouldn't be able to meet others that are related to any of my 9-5 work or likely into tech.
If co-working spaces, post covid of course, aren't a good way to meet business starting people in a new city, what is?
Does anyone ever travel to any Islands like Bermuda, Barbados, Barbuda and St. Kitts & Nevis?
Hi, my name is Eric and I am a remote worker from Norway. Me and a friend is flying into Gran Canaria on Friday and spending two weeks in San Agustin on the south side of the Island.
After that we are pondering about staying in La Gomera. Does anyone of you have an experience staying there or are there anyone of you staying there now? :)
I have two passports from different countries and am trying to understand where can I travel now. Is there a publicly available map of countries open for visitors by passport country that I can use to see what are my options? I was pretty sure such a thing should exist, but cannot easily find any.
Maybe at least there're maps for specific passports? Mine are Russian and American.
If there's no such thing, I'd be down to build one, let me know if interested to collaborate :)
Hello Everyone
I'm planning to stay in Seville for 6 weeks for mid January - end of February. Do you any recommandations for a coliving or a place to live in?
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