About Me (and Why I’m Starting This Blog)

I won’t bore you with a long preamble about my life history and all that typical blog stuff. This article is just a quick background piece, some context for the long journey we’re about to embark on. I’m Alon Lavie, a full-time student at the University of Toronto and a part-time tutor for Paper Co. (a pretty cool company actually — check it out if you get some spare time), and my dream is to become full stack developer, working freelance or doing something I enjoy for a company with an important mission, and eventually creating a new product and getting my own startup off the ground.

However, after some research and asking around, I’ve come to learn that the path to becoming a developer is long, hard, and not so clear-cut. There’s a plethora of information out there on the internet, but all of it seems either too easy, too advanced, or too expensive. And it all seems disconnected. It’s a very overwhelming experience.

After weeks of compiling info from a bunch of resources (which I will list in a later article), I managed to complete a rough step-by-step plan to becoming a full stack developer with as little spending as possible (just the basics- a computer/laptop, internet, etc.). And I don’t just mean gaining the skills to be a full-stack developer; I mean landing a job as one! Compiling this plan made me realize how much I wished the path to becoming a full stack developer was outlined in some website somewhere, so that I didn’t have to do the dirty work. With that in mind, I realized that others have probably had that thought as well. Enter the idea to start a blog. A blog outlining the path to becoming a full stack developer and following a real person’s journey to become one. It would be useful, informative, and lots of fun, both for me and for my readers.

To be a bit more concrete, I’ve started this blog for two main reasons. 1) to centralize all the information on how to, starting from nothing, land a job as a full stack developer with as little money as possible; and 2) to share my journey with you in real-time, so that you can follow along with me and so that everything I learn on my way will be accessible to you rather than a bunch of tech-y gibberish. So either follow along with me on my journey and land a job as a full stack developer yourself, or just enjoy the ride — this is “From Zero To Full Stack Developer With as Little Money as Possible”.

And with that I conclude. It’s going to be long, and it’s going to be hard. But if you’re prepared to work your bum off, and this is what you’ve always wanted, then stay tuned for my next post, where I outline this much-anticipated plan to becoming a full stack developer.