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by scarface74 2953 days ago
If your primary focus is to get a job,focus on languages, frameworks that are in demand.

If you already know Java, stick with it and learn an MVC framework to create APIs (I'm not a Java guy).

Learn HTML+CSS+JavaScript and then one UI Framework like Bootstrap and one SPA Framework (React or Angular).

Learn at least one RDMS - Postgres or MySQL they are the most popular open sourced RDMS

Learn Python. It seems to be the go to scripting language for data science and....

Learn about cloud infrastructure - preferable AWS since it's the most popular. You're going to have to host what you're doing somewhere. Opinions differ, some would say just to host on something like Linode, much cheaper and simpler.