by Preethi Kasireddy

I’ve done programming tutorials. Now what?

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This week’s question for my Ask Preethi series is about how to go from simply doing tutorials to the actually building real world applications.

The Question

I know basics of Html, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. I’ve followed lots of tutorials to make simple sites. But I am stuck now, what should I do next. How can I use what I learned to build something real?

Here’s my answer

So, you decided to learn to code and maybe went through a few online tutorials. You know a lot of different things — syntax, conditionals, classes, prototypes, etc.

But what’s next? You actually want to build something, but it feels like you’re not able to put everything together.

What do you do next? Well, here’s my 13-minute answer to this question: