How to Actually Use a Web Developer Roadmap: Mike Karan on Better Learning and Must-Have Skills for Junior Developers

🎙 About the episode

Meet Mike Karan 🇨🇦! Mike is a successful web development business owner and a co-host of the HTML All The Things podcast. His podcast and social media platforms have had tremendous growth in 2021, but Mike explains it's not all about the stats: it's about creating value and connecting with people. 

In this episode, we're talking roadmaps! If you're learning to code, it's easier to follow a roadmap that somebody else has made. But, that can also be tricky: it's not always clear when to branch out or move on to another part of a roadmap. You'll learn how to recognize these opportunities, how to figure out if you should quit learning something, and why you should only focus on one framework at a time. Plus, there's a rant about regex.

🔗 Connect with Mike

• 👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn
• 🌐 Website
• 👩‍🚀 GitHub
• 🐦 Twitter

⏰ Timestamps

• Introduction (0:00)
• Mike's podcast and Twitter growth (02:00)
• How Mike chose the front-end developer career path (07:08)
• Step by step guide for learning to become a front-end developer (09:08)
• What can you achieve with just HTML and CSS? When is the right time to learn JavaScript? (14:00)
• How should you look at a roadmap? (17:49)
• Figure out what you hate! (18:48)
• How to know you've given something enough of a try? (21:34)
• When to monetize your skills? (24:51)
• On roadmaps and choosing the right framework (27:21)
• What does a junior developer have to know? (33:47)
• Apply your knowledge! (36:45)

🧰 Resources mentioned

• HTML All The Things web developer roadmap
• Junior web developer checklist
• Mike's podcast

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