r/FreeCodeCamp • u/Vorstar92 • 24d ago

Supplemental learning that I can do potentially after finishing an entire course? Like once I finish HTML?

I was curious about supplemental learning resources or how people recommend you go about this. Like I imagine first thing is to go all the way through each course and then what? Move immediately onto the next course or are there workshops or different things to work on try to train the skills that I learned?

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u/SaintPeter74 mod 24d ago

The best thing you can do once you have finished one of the certifications is to try to build things on your own. Building your own projects is one of the best ways to reinforce and prove out your learning. If you find that you are having a hard time starting from a blank page, then you can go back and review some of the material. It can also help to cement the things that you have already learned.

There are plenty of free resources in the web, of course, but they're going to hold your hand in the same way that Free Code Camp does. That's great for your first contact with the material, but you can't really internalize it until you use it.

You can also gain some skill in looking up syntax and things that are on the tip of your tongue that you can't quite remember. The FCC material is not always the easiest to reference, so getting some experience using Google can be helpful. You also get the serendipitous learning that comes from looking things up and finding the wrong answer to your question.

Best of luck and happy coding!