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magic_beans on Feb 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Self Taught Web Dev -What Should I Do?

Stop reading books about js and start writing code. The only way to get to that $80k salary is to build, build, build. \

Step 1: build a portfolio. No one will even look at you without some sort of code under your belt.

techsin on Feb 14, 2015 [–]

I've been building too. For example when i was learning about websocket (socketio library) http://codepen.io/techsin/full/DnIcp/

open in desktop or laptop, in two different ones or in two different tabs.

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