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Bret
Bret

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DO YOU NEED COLLEGE/School, to be taken seriously with Web Design??

Do you need to have official school/training to be taken seriously with web Design?
I know Vue and React well,
I’m focusing on python now

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Gabriel Ramirez

No. What you need is a good portfolio to show your skills. If you already know Vue and React, upload some projects to Github, your own portfolio, codepen, and other platforms and use that for your advantage.

Good luck!

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Bret

With a “portfolio “, is that just a bunch of repos I would have public for people to “download” to be able to see??

How do employers “check” someone’s work? & what do they look for?

Thanks!

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Bret

thank you!
but tho, doesn't GitHub allow people to copy and paste your code?
or basically call it their own?

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Gabriel Ramirez

Technically, most Front End can be copy and pasted and there will be always someone with bad intentions of plagiarizing something. But your goal is to have a proper way to let others know how good you are.

If you want to focus only in visuals, you can always use other sites like Dribbble where you can upload PNGs or PDFs of your work to show.

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Bret

Thank you! I like font end, but I don’t like the “not that color, this” “I don’t like that button” “not that texture....oh wait, yes I liked that”,
I like where it’s more about being functional, like JS and React. I’m looking at Python now.

With Swift, I like how it’s visual, but that’s just a feature