Become-A-Full-Stack-Web-Developer

Free resources for learning Full Stack Web Development.

Table of Contents

1. Start Here
2. How to learn
3. What is the Most Useful CS Bookmark You have
4. Free Full-Stack Programs & Classes
5. Learn HTML
6. Learn CSS
7. Learn Javascript
8. Learn React.js
9. Learn Node.js
10. Learn APIs
11. Learn Git
12. Games & Challenge Websites
13. Free Programming Books
14. Open Source Contribution Opportunities
15. Am I Ready to be a Developer?
16. Software Developer Success Stories
17. Resume's, Portfolio's, LinkedIn, Interview Prep, & Salary Information

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Start Here

• Take a look at the big picture: Web Developer Roadpath
• Youtube video outlining what to learn (similar to above, but in video format) - Watch this if you want to become a web developer
• My journey to becoming a web developer from scratch without a CS degree (and what I learned from it) (Medium)
• What happens when you type google into your address bar? [Reddit Link]
  • Tuts Plus - The http protocol every web developer must know
• Find a local Web Development related Meetup!

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How to Learn

• How to Learn.
  • Coursera Course (Not CS Specific) - Learning how to learn
  • Repetition, Repetition, Repetition - A great discussion on study techniques Reddit Post

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What is the Single most useful CS Bookmark you have?

• What is the single most useful CS Bookmark you have? [Reddit Link]
  • Learn X in Y Minutes
  • What CS Majors Should Know
  • Google's Technical Development Guide
  • CSS Tricks - Complete Flexbox Guide
  • Regex Cheat Sheet
  • DevDocs
  • Awesome List of Everything Programming
  • How to Break Into the Tech Industry—a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews

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Free Full-Stack Programs, Classes, and Tutorials

• Programs
  • The Odin Project
  • Free Code Camp
  • The Essential Web Developer Course
• Classes
  • SANITIZED list of 530+ free online programming/CS courses (MOOCs) with feedback(i.e. exams/homeworks/assignments) that you can start this month (December 2016) - Needs Updating
• Tutorials
  • How to Create a Complete Express.js + Node.js + MongoDB CRUD and REST Skeleton
  • Building web app using react.js, express.js, node.js and mongodb - Part 1, 2
  • Trello tribute with Phoenix, React, Redux, PostgreSQL - 12 parts
  • Create a character voting app using React, Node.js, MongoDB and Socket.IO
  • Building a React Universal Blog App: A Step-by-Step Guide
  • Building a Secure RESTful Node.js app
• Cool stuff other people have built:
  • Belgian Beer Explorer with React, Bootstrap, Node.js and Postgres
  • 90 Full Stack React Examples (some with tuts)

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Assorted Reddit Links (Still need to sort)

• Tutorial/Screencast: Let's Learn Algorithms: An Intro to Binary Search
• Thoughts on Coding Boot camps
• The Complete Guide to Bootcamps
• Self Study - My programming notes. 275 Pages of Content [Updated Reddit Link] [Original Reddit Link]
  • Javascript / Node / Angular 1 & 2 / React / Elm / C# / PHP / SQL / Git Google Drive
• What to do after Colt Steele's course
  • Watch And Code
• RegexOne - Learn Regular Expressions
• MongoDB University - Learn Mongo + Node
• Google University Github Repo

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Learn HTML

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Learn CSS

• Everything you need to know about Flexbox Seriously the best Flexbox resource I've found
• A visual guide to CSS - CSS Reference

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Learn Javascript

• Javascript Docs
• Courses/Tutorials
  • Courses.AngularClass.com - Topics Include: webpack, nodejs, npm, es5, es6, esnext, & rxjs, typescript
    • [Course Link] [Reddit Post]
  • Edabit - Learn Javascript With Interactive Challenges: Earn XP, Unlock Achievements & Climb The Leaderboard
    • [Edabit - Website Link] [Reddit Post]
  • Free Advanced JavaScript Courses - Learn Object Oriented Programming, Call Apply, and Bind, Testing, Functional Programming, and much more
  • Intermediate Course - Udacity - OOP JS
• Projects
  • JS 30 For 30 - 30 Projects for 30 Days
  • Learn to Code with Projects - enlight.ml
  • 13 Weeks of Javascript (Medium) - TONS of links to JS resources
• Articles/Books
  • Recursion, Recursion, Recursion (Medium)
  • Eloquent JS - Free Javascript Ebook
  • You don't know JS - Free, hosted on Github
  • Javascript Garden - learn about the quirky parts of JS
  • JS - The Good Parts .pdf
  • Learning js Design patterns - Reusable solutions to commonly occuring problems
  • Asynchronous Module Definition

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Learn React JS

• Official React Docs
• Official React Tutorial
• 3rd Party Tutorials
  • 10 React Mini Patterns
  • Top 5 Tutorials for getting started with React
  • 10 best ReactJS tutorials
  • React Starter Project Search
  • Exploring the react Ecosystem! - Article
  • Code academy React program
  • Great Free React books - Use this link first
• Medium Links:
  • React Components, Elements, and Instances (Medium)
  • Working with React
  • Beginners guide to React Router (Medium)
  • Angular JS vs React JS (Medium)

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Learn Node JS

• Official Node.js Docs
• Best Resource for learning Node.js [Reddit Link]
  • Youtube
  • Colt Steele's Bootcamp
  • Node School
  • Medium - Why the hell would you use Node?

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Learn APIs

• Where to start with learning APIs [Reddit Link]
  • What is an API? In English Please. (Medium)
  • Free Intro to APIs Book/Course by Zapier
  • Google Maps API
  • Distance Calculator Web Services API

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Learn Git

• Official Tutorial - Learn Git in 15 Minutes
• Official Docs
• Other Tuts:
  • Git, the simple guide
  • Learn Git Branching - Level by Level learning
  • Learn Git in 30 Minutes - Article
  • Here are all the Git commands I used last week and what they do (Medium)
• Why to Use GIT No, I have no side projects to show you

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Games and Challenge Websites

• Games to learn Programming in an easy and fun way [Reddit Link]

  • Flex Box Froggy
  • Flex Box Defense
  • Edabit
  • Coding Game
  • Elevator Saga - JS
  • Scratch - Absolute Basics
  • Hacked - Mobile App teaching through puzzles

• Coding Challenge Websites [Reddit Link] [Reddit Link #2]

  • Medium - 10 most popular coding challenge sites of 2016
  • Code Wars
  • Coding Game
  • Hacker Rank (some debate about this being good/bad
  • Project Euler (math focus)
  • Exercism

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Free Programming Books

• O'Reilly Offering Programming eBooks for Free (Reddit)
• GitHub - Thousands of free programming Books on every topic
• Non-Technical Books to make you a better Programmer (Reddit)

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Open Source Contribution Opportunities

• How do I get skilled enough to work on open source projects?
• Open Source Contribution Opportunites [Reddit Discussion]
  • Redditor Form to fill out to get notified about Open Source Opportunities
  • Up For Grabs - Browse a list of projects with curated tasks
• Hacktoberfest - Open source activity held every October. Easy to participate, and you get a free t-shirt!
• I'm afraid if I say anything on Github people will laugh at me and I will die.

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Am I Ready to be a Developer?

• Readiness
  • Self taught front end devs... When did you know that you were "Job ready"?
  • People who are self-taught developers, how long did it take you to get your first job?
  • When do you know when you're ready to start interviewing?
• Software developers- what is the best advice you have for people learning CS?
• I want a career in programming
• What should you know as a web dev just out of college?
  • Reddit Discussion - newer
  • What CS Majors Should Know - older
• How I got started with Side Projects - link
• What are some goals a beginning Self-Taught Developer should have?
• Computer programmers of Reddit, what is your best advice to someone who is currently learning how to code?
• I began teaching myself to code a year ago. I got hired at my first job 4 months ago. Here is a breakdown of somethings I was not ready for (FYI job is remote ruby/rails dev)

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Software Developer Success Stories

• Success Stories
  • 18 months ago I didn’t know how to code, I’m now a self-taught programmer who’s made apps for the NBA, NHL, and schools like Purdue, Notre Dame, Alabama and Clemson. I’m now releasing my software under the MIT license for anyone’s use — AMA!
  • Last year I was unemployed and miserable. Using this sub and resources, I've been full time employed for a year. I did it with all free resources. I wanna share with you how I did it. (IOS)
  • I began teaching myself to code a year ago. I got hired at my first job 4 months ago. Here is a breakdown of somethings I was not ready for (FYI job is remote ruby/rails dev)
  • I'm 32 years old, and just started my first full-time job as a developer. One year ago my programming knowledge was basically nil. Everything I learned, I found via /r/learnprogramming, so just wanted to share my experience.
  • From zero to software developer - Not really a success story, but a lot of redditors share how they learned. Great for beginners with no path

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Get The Job

Resume, Portfolio, LinkedIn, Interview Prep, and Salary Information

• How to Apply

  • I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned. (Medium)
  • Lessons from my Post-bootcamp Job search (Medium)
  • How to land a six figure job in tech with no connectinos (Medium)

• Resume & LinkedIn

  • What are some of the best resuмe formats you've seen?
  • Model examples for Fullstack Developer LinkedIn profiles

• Personal Projects

  • Recruiters, what kind of CS projects impress?

• Interview Prep

  • CS50 - Prep and Practice for Technical Interviews [YouTube]
  • How to Break Into the Tech Industry—a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews
  • Common Javascript Interview Questions Repo
    • Github Repo - All questions and answers
    • Reddit Post - Discussion, with additional questions and answers
  • Ammon Bartram - Ask an interviewer anything: interview questions, answers, mistakes
  • Sharing some interview tips (Silicon valley employee)
  • Job interview questions to ask the interviewer
  • I suck at programming interviews.
  • When solving an interview problem, talk all the time.
  • Hiring managers (or other seasoned developers), what qualities do you look for in your ideal candidate?
  • Post your best interview questions
  • Been interviewing with a lot of tech startups as a frontend dev, here are the technical questions I've been asked (MID-SENIOR LEVEL)
  • 10 Interview Questions every JS Developer should know (Medium)

• Salary Information

  • 12/2016 Salary Sharing Thread (<2 yrs Experience)
  • Salary Negotiations and how not to set a bunch of money on fire (Medium)
  • 10 Rules for negotiating a job offer (Medium)
  • How not to bomb your offer negotiation (Medium)