Brand new to IT industry/education, requesting a recommendation for potential career success.

Hi Rukhsar!

I will try to answer your questions separately.

"Would someone please guide me, what should be my next choice?" - What do you want to do in the end? I know a question to your question is probably not what you want but if we know what you want to do then that makes it easier to guide you.

"How do I be confident someone will hire me? and why someone will hire a fresher, who have no experience in IT industry?" - If you learn the skills needed, and show that you are willing to keep learning, companies will love you. Why does the big football teams around the world fight over the youngsters sitting without experience when they could buy current stars for basically the same money? They want to secure talent, and they want to prepare for the future.

Hi Ruhksar,

If I had to make a recommendation for you then I'd suggest that you use your previous experience in Business Administration and combine that with knowledge you get throughout learning on treehouse or anything else you use to learn with in order to build an online website that gives the website user an online resume or online portfolio from your knowledge, projects you've made, etc.

The benefits of having an online resume/portfolio in this technology sector is that companies are most likely to hire a person who is capable of showing its skills right away instead of a graduate that has nothing visual to show and/or to impress the job interviewer.

You'll have to make a choice in wether you prefer to learn programming software or in scripting / web development because each sector takes seperate knowledge / more time to learn. Depending on my advice the logical learning path would be to learn HTML, CSS at first and then make a choice wether you want to learn PHP or Javascript first, either of them is a necessary skill as web developer, the only difference is that HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT is all front-end development and PHP is all back-end development which takes place on a server.

If you want to learn how to write software then I'd suggest learning C# and or Java, both very similiar languages however I find C# a more powerful language because of the platform it is used on and its endless abilities.

I hope I've helped you with this!

Amazing! This website was really appealing to my brain. Thank you very much for your insightful answers. and quick response. I wish you very good luck for your future ventures in industry. Kudos for being a great teammate.

I would like to add though, if you go the front-end web development route HTML, CSS and JavaScript will be necessary as they are used everywhere on the front end.

When it comes to back end web development the choice is mostly up to you. If you feel like you don't want to learn an additional language JavaScript is in high demand even on the back-end thanks to Node.js(Treehouse has some great courses!). You also got PHP, Python, Java, C# and more to choose from when it comes to back-end web development, all with their own pros. For an example I use Node.js and C# at work depending on the project, but would love to learn Python too.

So I do not agree with Luc de Brouwer that PHP is a necessity, it's great but far from something you must know :)

My question to you Rukhsar Khan would be: What is it that you want to work with? Would you want to create web pages, web applications and have the possibility of creating apps(with a tad lower performance than native apps)? Is it mobile app development? Game development? Enterprise applications? There's a need for them all!

My advice really depends on your answer there, as I could easily point you in the wrong direction if I give you advice without knowing your goal.

I would say PHP is just based on the number of sites using PHP and the number of openings.

stjarnan Thank you for contributing time towards my question, I am merely a beginner, I do not have any experience working on any project using programming language. I need a lot of hands-on experience, to decide what I enjoy the most. After spending years with the job I didn't enjoy doing, I am ready to take any challenges or risks in life now. :D What will be the cheapest option to buy and host our domain for the professional portfolio? I will learn an important aspect of languages. Yes! I do enjoy creating web contents, but I haven't learned anything yet. basic html and css. Still working on Javascript.