$2k 19 week course on Full Stack Web Development with PHP - Worth taking or not.

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

No, don't waste your money.. especially if you failed the A+ certification test.

You need to showcase your knowledge and understanding of programming languages in interviews just to be considered as a candidate.

You'll be out of 2k and 19 weeks taking that course. Any 19 week course that's worth while would cost more than 2k.

Only the top 1% of students in those bootcamps actually land something.

And you might not even like that shyt. I've taken web development classes.. that shyt is about how much work you put in outside of class.

You gotta either be extremely disciplined and consistent or have a passion for that shyt.

appreciate it fam.

 

[Ty Daniels]

Keep your money, and invest your TIME.
Damn near any programming language or framework can be learned with the right tutorials, your TIME, and TINKERING.

Learn the basics of programming:
- Variables
- Conditional Statements (IF, IF ELSE, Ternary Operators, Switch etc...)
- Operators
- Data types
- Loops (For, While, For Each etc...)
- Functions
- Classes and OOP

Learn these basics and you can apply them to ANY programming language.
It will then be a matter of learning the syntax nuances of that particular language (Or Framework).

Also what is your goal for learning PHP?

PHP alone isn't going to get you much work, but learning a PHP framework more than likely will.

PHP still powers much of the web, though JS/Node is replacing a lot of it, along with Python (More so JS and Node).

If you are still interested in PHP then you could learn one of these:
- Laravel (Lots of Work) (Lots of Competition)
- Wordpress Development (Themes, Plugins, Block Development) (Lots of Work) (Lots of Competition)
- Drupal (Lots of Work) (Not as much Competition)
- Magento (Lots of Work) (Not as much Competition)
- Symfony
- Joomla (Lots of Work) (Not as much Competition) (Not as popular)
- CodeIgniter
- You will ALSO need to learn the basics of SQL to be "Full Stack"

Even if you were never to get hired by a company, you could always FREELANCE.
Do your own thing, but you will have to hustle to make sure new work/clients are coming in, as well as manage current clients and "Scope Creep".

Outside of PHP, you should also learn JS/Node or a JS framework:
-React (Next JS) (React Native) (Gatsby)
- Vue (Nuxt JS)
- Angular
- Svelte

What are your front-end skills like, do you already know HTML, CSS and JS? If not you will at a bare minimum need to learn HTML to work with PHP.

Also most of the information you are looking for is available for FREE online.

Example:





If you are still interested in learning Web Development with PHP, install a local server/environment, and TINKER

Here are a few more resources:
- https://www.w3schools.com/
- Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
- WordPress Developer Resources | Official WordPress Developer Resources
- https://www.youtube.com/@TraversyMedia/videos
- WampServer
- MAMP & MAMP PRO - your local web development solution for PHP and WordPress development


Sorry for the long post, and GOOD LUCK!

 

[Amo Husserl]

Try studying the basics on your own and make sure you have a fundamental grasp.
Nineteen week course might be accelerated.

 

[the bossman]

Nothing in my post was delusional. I know a few brehs who work in tech, the youngest got a junior dev job when he was 20. It’s absolutely doable and there’s too many examples of Black men and Women that were able to break into the industry.

I really want to know what your experience was like. How long were you studying? Did you attempt to network? Do you know any frameworks or have a portfolio of any kind? If I’m wrong tell me

it sounds like Swagnificent. if it's him, that clown has never had any kind of career in tech at all. failed out of his classes and then started blaming the white man

 

[Gritsngravy]

It depends, do you trust yourself to really teach yourself or is it best to be in a classroom setting following a syllabus
Of course you may not want to spend the money but you probably would be better trained in a class setting