Who needs to upgrade?
- Matt’s Knowledgebase
- Use a lot of no-code, low-code, and site building tools to deliver websites to small-medium businesses
- Small-medium businesses train their staff to use popular tools (ie WordPress)
- Future website build-outs and updates will typically be requested in these tool(s) in order to keep training and content creation costs down
- Just a few weeks ago we had a client reach out for recommendations on WordPress training materials because they wanted to start editing their own content - they stated that their only website development experience was back in 1995 when they got an HTML certification
- There are countless cases like this, where someone has a certain degree of development experience that leaves them with a lot of blind spots (ie Matt has barely used nodejs)
Problem & Question
- Problem: Coding guides and pathways (ie via courses) are typically tailored towards absolute beginners, or people looking to become self-taught
- Question: What should someone looking to upgrade their coding knowledge do when they’re already a professional?
The Problem with Beginner-Only Guides
- Most content assumes you’re either a total beginner or ready for advanced frameworks.
- There's little guidance for “situational devs” who only code when needed and may have learned backwards or piecemeal.
The Problem with Comprehensive Pathway Guides
- When you do a comprehensive pathway course, there may be a considerable amount of content that you already know at a level above what the course is teaching - while a certain amount of this is expected with any course, because you’re already a working dev the amount may be excessive
- This excessive repetition can easily derail your learning (I personally struggle completing courses because of this)
The Problem with Accessing Your Skill Gaps
- I’ve seen suggestions that I should assess my skill gaps based on what modern developers use (ie GitHub, CI, framework(s), API consumption, hosting, etc.)
- The issue here is that it’s difficult to learn what is normally a complete pathway (from blank files to completed website/web app) piecemeal because it’s easy to miss a piece of the “normal modern procedure”
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