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What’s the best direction?

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I’m new to IT and was wondering what the best way to begin my journey to becoming a full stack developer. I have started doing some free online courses, just to get a feel for it: would this be a good choice?
Should I start with coding or script?

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– What courses did you follow? Did you finish them and get a certificate?
– Were it the right courses for a would-be full-stack developer?
– Which of them did you like most?
– Why do you think full stack developer is a good career choice for you?
– Did you follow any IT class at high school or college?
– What work do you currently do and why do you want to switch?

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Go West, young man.

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From my experience, is good way is to start with a bachelor of IT. See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Information_Technology
Many include an internship in the specialisation you want, and when you’re finished after 3 years or so, a job as a junior developer is a common start of your career,

“How Full-Stack Development Helped Me Build a Niche Food Platform”

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Great question! To stay relevant as a future full stack developer, focus on building real projects as early as possible — even simple clones of websites or tools. Try to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript (frontend) and Node.js or Python with a database (backend) in parallel, so you see how both sides work together.
Also, explore developer communities, tech Reddit threads, and blogs — they really helped me when I was exploring tech use in food and automation. (I’ll share something interesting I found soon!)

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