Best Youtube channels for web-dev
A freelancer's guide to web-dev
Warm greetings!
I'm super excited to bring you today's newsletter.
If you're new here then welcome! I'm glad that you chose to learn freelance skills and up-skill yourself. Today we'll talk a bit about web-development and photoshop
Syntax based learning VS Project based learning
A lot of people learn the syntax of programming languages like C, C++ or JavaScript and consider themselves to be experts in building stuff. This isn't the right way of going about it. Always work on at-least 3 personal projects before you start applying for freelance gigs. This helps you build a good portfolio that you can showcase to your clients.
Here are few Youtube channels that teach you JavaScript by doing projects:
Ania Kubów #JavaScriptGames: Channel
Web-dev simplified:
Have a lot of time and wanna listen to podcasts?
Podcasts are my favourite. They help me listen to amazing stuff while doing things I love. Here are is an amazing podcast that you try out on Spotify:
Syntax Podcast (It's a web-dev community and talk about recent happenings in the space)
What's backend and frontend web-development?
This is a complex question but I'll try simplifying it. When you visit any website you, whatever you see on the homepage is the front-end part of it. It's what the users can SEE on the website. Backend is what happens behind the hood, for example when you submit a form on a website, the things that the program does behind the scenes like sending the form data to the database and storing it. Website visitors cannot see what's happening in the back-end. More about this in the next newsletter
What is Figma?
Figma is a tool used to design websites. Before you start to code the front-end of the website, it is essential that you know how the website should look like. Figma is like an advanced graphic designing tool which lets you design websites and visualise them in a drap and drop platform. You can even use Photoshop for this but Figma is the market leader for website design.
Try it at: figma.com
Product of the week
(http://prodcuthunt.com) is a great place to know about new products in the market, get some inspiration and build your own products as well. This week's product is Font in Logo which uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and finds the font used in popular logos like Adidas and Nike. Try it out here: (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/font-in-logo)
Where can I learn Photoshop from?
Adobe (the company that makes photoshop) has great tutorials on their official website. Check them out here: (https://helpx.adobe.com/in/photoshop/tutorials.html)
That's all for this week. Hope you have a great week ahead. Do let me know your feedback on this week's edition
-Curious Harish
LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harish-uthayakumar/)
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