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A designer's journey on learning to build for the web

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Creating some Dribbble like cards

See the Pen Dribbble Cards - Draft 1 by Mel Baylon (@melbaylon) on CodePen.

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Adding temporary borders help to see the pieces that make up a website.

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Great reference for styling images.

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Learning JavaScript functions by creating my own investment calculator. 📈

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Coding (instead of designing it in Adobe illustrator) a profile picture for mainly monospaced.

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I went back to freeCodeCamp

Sometime last year I started learning web development at freeCodeCamp. Then I took a break.

When I decided to go back, I went to Codecademy instead. I used Codecademy a few years back and had finished their HTML, CSS and JS courses. Just last month I finished their PHP course because I want to do Wordpress development. I need to put more time on that though but that’s beside the point.

At least for me, there’s a more polish feel in using Codecademy when compared to freeCodeCamp. Being a designer, I like that a lot. But that did not make me stay.

Though Codecademy offers better experience, it is fragmented. Courses are not stringed to together well making a student starting in web dev guessing what to do next. There is a Learning Plan feature, which is a solution to the said problem but you need a pro account for that. It costs $20 per month and I not comfortable with that.

freeCodecamp solves those two problems for me. It’s totally free and it maps your full path to becoming a full stack web developer. So that’s why I went back.