Choosing my speciality
Now comes the part I see as the second most difficult part of becoming a programmer, with the first being actually finding content to put in my blog, which is choosing a specialty.
I have thought a lot about what I want to do and as an entry-level programmer I’m not 100% on what or where I want to go with my career, and if I choose wrong will I limit myself to a small pool of clients with no job prospects.
As I said in my first post I am following the simple programmer How to Create a Blog to Boost your Career course and I have come to realise that specializing in the wrong area will still give me the knowledge in the parent area, so I can choose a speciality and switch if I needed to in the future.
So I have chosen to get involved with Node.JS and specifically using a full stack framework Meteor which looks very interesting (even though a lot of the technical information is above my current understanding) as it can be used to create apps and programs that can run on web and mobile applications.
This has allowed me to do more research into how I can start in this area and it would seem that to get to grips with node.js the best place to start is to learn how to use JavaScript.
So let the journey to JS wizard begin.