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Matthew Costigan
18,319 PointsI've learned the basics of Front-End Development , but what to code to hone my skills and build a portfolio?
My goal is to find a job as a Front-End Developer and a portfolio is always required. But I am struggling to come up with different ideas to code and demonstrate my skills. How and what to code to build a solid and impressive portfolio?
2 Answers
rospa
2,945 PointsMaking your own website is a great first step to showing off your front-end development skills. Write neat, concise code and comment everything, if your employer cares about your code then they're almost certainly going to check it after checking out your resumé!
You could proposition local businesses to make them a new website, or just create a fictional business and build a website for that instead, challenging yourself to incorporate everything you've learned on Treehouse into the design.
Good luck!
Colby Work
20,422 PointsWhen I was learning JavaScript, it was fun and helpful to build a Bingo caller App, and a Yahtzee App. The Bingo caller app is pretty easy, but requires some thinking to get it working properly. The Yahtzee App is more challenging, but really takes a lot of thinking to get all the different elements to work together and be a fully functional game.