Software Engineering #coding #softwareengineer #webdevelopment #tech

Trying to get into the tech industry as a software engineer? I think in terms of getting your first job you need to be really good at one thing. People with many years in the industry might tell you differently but maybe they don't remember all the details of struggling for that first job because it's been so long. Or maybe the struggle wasn't as bad as is it now. All I'm saying is people told me to learn way too many different things but what actually got me the first job was being really good at JavaScript and also having solid skills in HTML and CSS. If you're going to be a front end dev you need to be really good at those three things. It should be your top priority above all else. Frameworks and libraries and "full stack" development can come later. I built dozens of projects in just vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript before moving on to anything else. Be confident that if someone gave you a test of randomly choosing any website on the internet that you could copy it (at least visually) with plain HTML and CSS. Don't worry about functionality in the beginning, just copy the websites visually.

When you can do that, then start actually making the buttons and links work.

When you can do that, make the login functionality work and whatever else the website does.

When you're done with that, repeat the same process but with React.

That's basically what I did, among many other things.