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by ix-hispana 3047 days ago
Learning to code is easy. Javascript is easy to work with. Especially nowadays with lots of great learning materials online. Those freelancers weren't born knowing Javascript. They trained. That's how you git gud at things.

Head over to freeCodeCamp and get coding. It doesn't matter if it's too easy at first. Race through it. The good thing about freeCodeCamp is that you have to make a full-fledged product, it's not just examples. Don't listen too much to the sales pitch and don't take seriously the important-sounding words like "become an engineer", etc. Just get coding and complete a project. It's very important that you make something from start to finish on your own. That's the whole point of this bit, really.

When you have finished a project, head over to egghead.io and get the two React courses by Kent C. Dodds. The introductory one is free. The advanced you'll have to buy. It's worth it.

You have three months to do this. You will be more employable -and confident- by May.