David Goudet
2 min readAug 5, 2022

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The thing is that with those two options, you need to evaluate a lot of things related to your lifestyle. This is super subjective, but let's say you use 3 hours a day to study, then you can become a junior frontend developer in 4 months, but a full-stack in 6 to 8 months.

If you want to be a freelancer, being a full-stack is the way to go, but have in mind that doing a complete app by yourself is an enormous challenge. You'll have to endure months of your own frustrations and your client's.

There are a lot of courses out there. I have read good things about this one, to become a full stack:

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-web-developer-zero-to-mastery/

The important things to understand here are:

-There are tons of languages out there, I can't recommend any one in particular because all of them have different uses.

-The time depends on your own pace.

-Do something that you love, because the road is long.

-You'll realize you're a better programmer in some months, but is not an overnight change. Check Veritasium's video 'The 4 things it takes to be an expert'

-Some decisions will be based on money, some on the technology that you like the most, some on technical aspects. You can only read more to take informed decisions.

-I started as an entrepreneur, I created apps by myself, but it was when I entered a company that I understood the good practices. The difference is brutal.

-To become a mid or senior developer, you need to read the books about your framework and language, is the only way.

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David Goudet
David Goudet

Written by David Goudet

Senior Software Engineer from Venezuela living in Madrid. Top Writer in AI and Technology. US Dept of State alumnus. www.davidgoudet.com/peakperformance

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