Hi Pedro,
nice to meet you. It’s really good to know I can inspire someone.
I don’t know the market tendency on Belo Horizonte, but if you want to dive into webdev I would recommend 2 things:
- First try to find what you like most. I mean between front-end and back-end. I’m a designer, so I started with front-end and loved it. Then I started learning back-end programming, but only when I thought I was good enough in the front-end. You’re coming from a completely different professional area, so you can choose which one to start with.
- Second I would tell you to search within the market which programming language is most wanted. For example we don’t have many job openings for Java in Rio. Most companies look for Ruby, Python, .NET and NodeJS. Even PHP has dropped a little. So choose wisely so you can guarantee that you will be able to grab a job opportunity to put in practice what you’re learning.
Don’t worry too much at the beginning. You need to first get a job on the area. After that you’ll see it’s much easier to change between programming languages, as long as you keep learning different things showing the market that you have what they’re looking for.
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