I'm in your boat, not on the expert side, but I've gotta say I've found a lot of truth in language-agnostic learning. There was a point I hit where it felt like there were more similarities than differences among various frameworks, and I could fall back on what I knew about the language and about software in general to fill in conceptual gaps when reading code in an unfamiliar framework or even an unfamiliar language. To cover your bases, learn JavaScript and any modern back-end-ish language and you should be able to adapt to the specific toolset of any job posting that excites you.
After graduating with a Law Degree, I decided to stick with my passion for software engineering. Currently focused on learning Javascript. It’s a dream to be able to master it enough to teach it.
Thank you Ben. Yes that makes sense. For now, I've decided to focus on JS in as much detail as possible and then expand from there. Though, I hope things change in general because it is a minefield for newbie jobseekers and the confusion doesn't help.
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I'm in your boat, not on the expert side, but I've gotta say I've found a lot of truth in language-agnostic learning. There was a point I hit where it felt like there were more similarities than differences among various frameworks, and I could fall back on what I knew about the language and about software in general to fill in conceptual gaps when reading code in an unfamiliar framework or even an unfamiliar language. To cover your bases, learn JavaScript and any modern back-end-ish language and you should be able to adapt to the specific toolset of any job posting that excites you.
Thank you Ben. Yes that makes sense. For now, I've decided to focus on JS in as much detail as possible and then expand from there. Though, I hope things change in general because it is a minefield for newbie jobseekers and the confusion doesn't help.