steno1:
I have been on an exciting journey learning web development for a while now, and I have finally reached a point where I feel confident about my skills and ready to land my first web dev.

I'd greatly appreciate any advice

steno1:
I have been on an exciting journey learning web development for a while now, and I have finally reached a point where I feel confident about my skills and ready to land my first web dev job. However, I'm a bit lost on where to begin this new chapter.

I'd greatly appreciate any advice, tips, or personal experiences you can share on how to kickstart my web dev career. Here is link to my portfolio site. https://steno1.github.io/portfolioReact2/

Hannania:


Firstly, from your link, you deployed the project on GitHub. I'll advice you host it on another mainstream platform. It doesn't have to be paid. This is to avoid bias on your ability to host.

Secondly, as a beginner, I'll advice you have your close friends give constructive feedback to your work(that's where you need a mentor). Let's assume you're a client and you need a website, no lie, will you hire a developer with this kind of portfolio? . It's a good start, but the interface is poor. I'll rate it 4/10. You most likely do not have an eye for design. Get ready made design on sites like Behance or frontend mentor, and model your design. When you get use to seeing good designs, you'll adapt.

Thirdly, I'll give you a solid advice. The best way to get into software development in Nigeria presently if you intend to do back end and you're a recent graduate is to learn C#. That's because barrier of entry into banks is not that difficult. But you hardly see beginners taking this shot.

Lastly, Network, Network and Network. The market is not smiling. You need to be spoken for

Hannania:


Firstly, from your link, you deployed the project on GitHub. I'll advice you host it on another mainstream platform. It doesn't have to be paid. This is to avoid bias on your ability to host.

Secondly, as a beginner, I'll advice you have your close friends give constructive feedback to your work(that's where you need a mentor). Let's assume you're a client and you need a website, no lie, will you hire a developer with this kind of portfolio? . It's a good start, but the interface is poor. I'll rate it 4/10. You most likely do not have an eye for design. Get ready made design on sites like Behance or frontend mentor, and model your design. When you get use to seeing good designs, you'll adapt.

Thirdly, I'll give you a solid advice. The best way to get into software development in Nigeria presently if you intend to do back end and you're a recent graduate is to learn C#. That's because barrier of entry into banks is not that difficult. But you hardly see beginners taking this shot.

Lastly, Network, Network and Network. The market is not smiling. You need to be spoken for

tensazangetsu20:


C# or java springboot and probably angular for frontend. I wont bother with them React and co now. Things are hot lol

steno1:
There is a picture between the header and about me, but is like it didn't load on your phone, likely coz of network. Also I have projects I hosted on render that I listed there, so not only GitHub

Hannania:
That Angular no suppose dey exist . But it's a go to for enterprise firms. As startup funds from VCs have dwingled, all I can say is good luck to typical JavaScript guys not in the top 1%.

tensazangetsu20:


The author of that JavaScript book you don't know js is looking for work and companies are even rejecting him. If it's such imagine for guys just starting out. Wahala dey o.

Hannania:


Firstly, from your link, you deployed the project on GitHub. I'll advice you host it on another mainstream platform. It doesn't have to be paid. This is to avoid bias on your ability to host.

Secondly, as a beginner, I'll advice you have your close friends give constructive feedback to your work(that's where you need a mentor). Let's assume you're a client and you need a website, no lie, will you hire a developer with this kind of portfolio? . It's a good start, but the interface is poor. I'll rate it 4/10. You most likely do not have an eye for design. Get ready made design on sites like Behance or frontend mentor, and model your design. When you get use to seeing good designs, you'll adapt.

Thirdly, I'll give you a solid advice. The best way to get into software development in Nigeria presently if you intend to do back end and you're a recent graduate is to learn C#. That's because barrier of entry into banks is not that difficult. But you hardly see beginners taking this shot.

Lastly, Network, Network and Network. The market is not smiling. You need to be spoken for

tensazangetsu20:
Men that's your portfolio. You get work to do o.

Sulele04:

Yeah on this, I am a 200 lvl cs student I am familiar with C# well but this semester we are being taught Java so I had to stop my C# learning.

Now the thing is c# & Java are very similar so it was a breeze, I am now learning Spring boot. Should I focus on spring boot or switch back to C# Asp.net.

BlackhatMentor:
No one will give u a Job with such ugly looking portfolio.

Its better u don't add any CSS at all that this.

Go back and learn CSS and JavaScript

steno1:


Lol, is that all you got to say? You are a very bitter person, when I get a job, I hope you will come here to comment again, coz I will post it because of people like you

BlackhatMentor:


Accept the truth.

I didn't say u can't get a job... I'm telling you this portfolio of yours is an eyesore.

Take it or leave it.

wtf is this?I have heard u... Thank you

Sulele04:

Yeah on this, I am a 200 lvl cs student I am familiar with C# well but this semester we are being taught Java so I had to stop my C# learning.

Now the thing is c# & Java are very similar so it was a breeze, I am now learning Spring boot. Should I focus on spring boot or switch back to C# Asp.net.

Possessedkid:
Your website sucks



Even my 8 years sister does a better web design than this



You absolutely don't need a fancy website as a portfolio website



Just keep it simple stupid!!

Namaster:
You sound EXTREMELY dumb. Your posts here show the calibre of people flocking to Tech jobs.

People should not worry about saturation. It's dumb people like the OP that's bloating the numbers.

You asked for advice on getting your first job. People gave you criticisms and pieces of advise on how to improve. Some of them have been in the industry for years.

Yet you're bitching about " bitter people on Nairaland" rather than thanking them profusely. And making relevant adjustments.

If you want to be coddled, go meet your Mummy. Otherwise, sack up and make changes.

Namaster:
You sound EXTREMELY dumb. Your posts here show the calibre of people flocking to Tech jobs.

People should not worry about saturation. It's dumb people like the OP that's bloating the numbers.

You asked for advice on getting your first job. People gave you criticisms and pieces of advise on how to improve. Some of them have been in the industry for years.

Yet you're bitching about " bitter people on Nairaland" rather than thanking them profusely. And making relevant adjustments.

If you want to be coddled, go meet your Mummy. Otherwise, sack up and make changes.

fastanddubious:
Seriously? 😳

fastanddubious:
Even worse on desktop

steno1:
.lol is not the criticism that I don't like, but how it was done. No one here has pointed out what the problem was. One said I should go and learn JavaScript and css, the other that I can't never get a job with this and so on... no pointing of what the problem is

steno1:
.lol is not the criticism that I don't like, but how it was done. No one here has pointed out what the problem was. One said I should go and learn JavaScript and css, the other that I can't never get a job with this and so on... no pointing of what the problem is

fastanddubious:

Go online and search for examples of good portfolios. Even your projects are not good. You can't get a job with this sir.

fastanddubious:

Go online and search for examples of good portfolios. Even your projects are not good. You can't get a job with this sir.