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Re-learning Journey

The other day I was talking to a person whom I knew as professional full-stack developer and what surprised me was that he was taking Full Stack Open Course. He said even though all his job positions state he is a full stack developer, he was more centralized his work on backend and was going to improve his frontend skills as well. His passion for his job (and of course the useful content of the course) encouraged me write this post and share valuable free resource.

So, why many of developers are urged to review everything they've already learned a while ago? The reason could be the fact that technologies are changing to adapt new requirements of growing tech world. Also, working in tech means learning by teaching others in order to consolidate the knowledge in your brain. Having to explain concepts in an easy way requires continuous adding value to what you already have.

Talking about the course a little bit, it is an Full Stack Open course offered by University of Helsinki with the purpose of breeding new generation of coders. Course is more focused on modern web development based on JavaScript. It covers variety of topics ranging from React, APIs built with NodeJS, databases to testing and deploying the applications. Once you are enrolled, you can communicate with the community via Discord or Telegram. 

I have seen many people counting themselves as professionals in their job without working on their skills for more than decade. But people like him never cease to amaze us by being a live example of how developers should approach their job: with passion and encouragement to learn non-stop. 

If you are the same type of person or know someone alike, I would be really interested to hear from you. So feel free to share your stories in the comments

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