Full Stack Developer in a couple of weeks

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Recently I've shifted from full time teaching to full time at my company. One of the differences that I've felt is that I have more time for my own learning. In my previous role as a University teacher, I needed to learn things and then figure out a way to explain them as well. Whereas in my new role as CTO, I can spend more time on learning for myself and not worry about figuring out the best way to teach others. Since my early days in CS, I've never felt comfortable as a web programmer or a designer. I've been mostly involved in embedded programming. Therefore, this was one area that I always felt uncomfortable in. However in my new role, I had to be up to speed with web application development, in order to work on some new products. Just like I always do, I tried to find the shortest way possible to get up to speed with full stack development. I searched around a bit for MOOCs on Coursera, Udacity, Udemy read some tutorials, downloaded a few free ebooks. 

After searching around for a few weeks, I finally landed on this udemy course Python and Django full stack Web developer bootcamp which I felt met my requirements of getting started with Full Stack development. The course is pretty well organized and there are a number of components, that I'm already pretty good at, however the organization of the course makes it a very good reference to get started with Full stack web development. It covers, both front end and back end frameworks and also teaches the basics of code maintenance, deployment and some great sample projects. In the course, you can also very easily follow the author's way of setting up your PC for working on different web projects. For example, he makes great use Atom, GitHub, Chrome as well as other tools like the virtual environment. The course covers basics of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootsrap, jQuery for front end; Python and  Django for back end. The full curriculum can be seen here. 

The best part is I purchased it for a mere $10 which is a little more than Rs 1000 and I believe that it has turned out to be great value for money. I would highly recommend this course for someone who is a beginner or would like to quickly get up to speed with Full Stack web development.