2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH - Watch this if you want to be a web developer

OP Here, I found this as part of the video 2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH [1] and thought this was a really neat thing to share. Check out other videos by LearnCode.academy. That's how I got started with React. [1]: ▶ this video

Few random thoughts as I've gone (and am still going) through same experience. 1. Zed Shaw of the "Learn Python the Hard Way" said programmers are dime a dozen. What's really valuable is a programmer who has experience from another domain such as history, engineering, medicine etc (and accounting in your case). I cannot recall exactly where he said it but I remember reading it and chuckling to myself. 2. Are you sure you want front-end dev work? Why not back-end? Exactly what skills are in demand? I recommend you watch this video on state of tools available in web dev including front-end, back-end, and DevOps as of 2016. ▶ this video I should warn that the shelf life of front-web dev skills seems to be much shorter than IT. In fact here's a list of tech skills, ordered with longest to shortest shelf life IMHO. Not sure about DevOps but my feeling is it has longer shelf life than programming... IT > DevOps > Back-end > Front-end Going into IT years ago, I knew I needed to keep learning new stuff to stay relevant. I slacked off a bit (due to family situation) and paid the price. With dev work, you need to spend even more time to learn new stuff to stay relevant. Often, you will have to spend your personal time to do so. 3. You should keep your day job as you try to break into coding. You don't want financial pressure to stress you out. And that means you will have to squeeze out every available hour of your life and devote it to studying/practicing. That means no weekend activities,

Watch this brilliant video, I think the author nailed it: ▶ this video tl;dr: - Learn Node, Django, or Ruby if you want to do the backend(personally, I HIGHLY recommend Django. It's extremely awesome and is the perfect way to start in my opinion). - Learn HTML/CSS/JS on the front end, then Sass and jQuery, then, if you want to be an advanced frontend developer - Webpack, React, and Redux. I think this is the optimal way to go right now.