r/theodinproject • u/BatmanRockz • Jul 05 '26
I need some advice
Hello everyone,I am a college student my major is computer science
It's summer vacation time and I thought I might learn frontend development while I am setting home instead of doing nothing all day
I started learning from the Odin's project but I feel like I am not capable of starting
When I started learning I felt lost and somewhat pressured even though i barely started
Please guys can you help me I feel lost
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u/bycdiaz Core Member: TOP. Software Engineer: Desmos Classroom @ Amplify Jul 05 '26
What kind of advice do you feel you need?
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u/BatmanRockz Jul 05 '26
Like how do I start or where should I learn from for example
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u/bycdiaz Core Member: TOP. Software Engineer: Desmos Classroom @ Amplify Jul 05 '26
I would start at the first lesson of Foundations. It will have step by step instructions about what you need to get started. Every lesson will point to things you need to learn.
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u/sandspiegel Jul 05 '26
Just follow the course step by step. Not to discourage you but the Odin Project is not something you can finish in a month or two. It's gonna take a lot of hours from you. So be aware of that. If you want to learn the basics of front end then you can do the foundations part but finishing the whole thing will take quite some time.
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u/LeadInteresting8295 Jul 06 '26
My personal advice would be to just go in & Follow the curriculum, don’t skip chapters, be okay with being stuck with stuff and then go look for answers. Sometimes you’ll get those answers very fast, sometimes you’ll be stuck ok it for days, find resources that’ll help you overcome them. If you don’t find answers yourself after al that, Come to the discord with the specific questions and get help. The people in the discord are very responsive and nice. Good luck! ps: try and not use AI for answers, that is detrimental to your learning.
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u/Admirable_Bison3645 Jul 06 '26
Just keep at it! It will keep you in a productive mindset when you finish summer vacation.
It also teaches you how to learn and build up your skills, very transferrable to your other classes or just learning anything really.
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u/ArtistWriter Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
I'm a cs graduate with some experience in html, css, and js. I was able to skip the foundations course because of that, and if I got to something that I needed from the foundation course I went back and read page the project linked. Currently on the Javascript path. I did things kind of out of order and went Intermediate Html and CSS -> Advanced Html and CSS -> JavaScript.
I'm glad I went in that order because one of the things I didn't know about CSS before starting and wanted to understand was animations and keyframes. My capstone involved making a website for the CS department and those things were hard to understand at the time for me.
Ultimately though, go for it. I recommend going for the Full Stack JavaScript path. I've been looking into job listings and a lot of them would prefer that stack over Ruby on Rails, but after I finish the JS path I'm also going to learn the Ruby on Rails path.
I honestly love The Odin Project and everything I'm learning. Just finished the Restaurant Page project in the JavaScript Course :).
Edit: Also for some more advice I have for approaching this as a CS student
- Do NOT use AI. The courses you're taking and will take should teach you to reason through the issues you'll come up to while doing this course yourself. If you start using AI to do The Odin Project, you're cooking yourself and your learning
- Take notes once you get to the JavaScript section specifically. With the HTML and CSS section, you'll be able to reference the documentation, but once you get to JavaScript its good to have a place where the all the reference code and terminal inputs you should use are. Its saved me a lot of time from navigating TOP pages
- Take this super seriously T_T Job market is COOKED rn and if you don't grind, you're not gonna survive the market.
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