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How to Actually Use a Web Developer Roadmap: Mike Karan on Better Learning and Must-Have Skills for Junior Developers
🎙 About the episode
Meet Mike Karan 🇨🇦! Mike is a successful web development business owner and a co-host of the HTML All The Things podcast. His podcast and social media platforms have had tremendous growth in 2021, but Mike explains it's not all about the stats: it's about creating value and connecting with people.
In this episode, we're talking roadmaps! If you're learning to code, it's easier to follow a roadmap that somebody else has made. But, that can also be tricky: it's not always clear when to branch out or move on to another part of a roadmap. You'll learn how to recognize these opportunities, how to figure out if you should quit learning something, and why you should only focus on one framework at a time. Plus, there's a rant about regex.
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⏰ Timestamps
- Introduction (0:00)
- Mike's podcast and Twitter growth (02:00)
- How Mike chose the front-end developer career path (07:08)
- Step by step guide for learning to become a front-end developer (09:08)
- What can you achieve with just HTML and CSS? When is the right time to learn JavaScript? (14:00)
- How should you look at a roadmap? (17:49)
- Figure out what you hate! (18:48)
- How to know you've given something enough of a try? (21:34)
- When to monetize your skills? (24:51)
- On roadmaps and choosing the right framework (27:21)
- What does a junior developer have to know? (33:47)
- Apply your knowledge! (36:45)
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