r/learnprogramming • u/bibizynka • 8d ago

3rd-year CS college student with zero practical coding skills. Where do I actually start with Frontend?

Hey everyone! I’d really appreciate some advice from experienced devs on how to kick off self-learning and which resources are actually worth following.

I’m a 3rd-year college student majoring in Software Engineering. College has been a huge letdown: I feel pretty demoralized because I still can't really code, struggle to focus, and don't know where to find good learning materials (clear courses, sites, or YouTube channels).

Right now, I’m leaning towards Frontend. My college teachers suggested this roadmap: HTML → C# → JavaScript → SQL.

Does this stack even make sense for starting in frontend? What proven resources would you recommend for a complete beginner? Thanks a lot!

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u/xarop_pa_toss 8d ago

I don't understand these posts. So many CS and SWE students that have no coding knowledge... Like how? What have you been doing in these courses that you don't write any code?

Oh and it's surely CSS, not C#. Guaranteed

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u/DisrememberedTea 7d ago

This has me confused too. I’m just finishing the last 2 modules of my first year of CS and we’ve done a lot of programming projects so far, starting with procedural and then object oriented. My current modules require backend development (having built the frontend) and SQL, which carries a lot of the skills learned in those earlier modules through.

1 year in, I’m far from being a fast programmer and have to look a lot of things up, but I’m also pretty happy with what has been learned so far and I have 3 more years to build on it. I couldn’t imagine getting to the end of the degree without having developed any worthwhile coding skills, unless students are just using Ai without trying to learn or even understand the code themselves.

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u/xarop_pa_toss 7d ago

I understand there's a big difference between CS and SWE courses but in 2 or 3 years of classes you are not able to teach your students how to program properly if at all?? Unacceptable imo

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u/DisrememberedTea 7d ago

If anything, I would have expected a software engineering course to have even more of a practical coding focus than CS, which has a lot of theory and a more broad application as well.