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Originally Posted by Fish
I don't think it's worth it to invest any money in web development training these days. It's very difficult to make a career out of web development. It's almost impossible to differentiate yourself from the thousands of other web developers looking for work. And because it's web development, you're competing with applicants from all over the world as opposed to a regional pool of applicants.
Unless you have very advanced skills in a specific subset of development, there's going to be thousands of other applicants with training exactly like yours. It takes much more than this kind of training to land a good paying job. Which usually requires you to go to an accredited university and get a real degree. There's just no fast track method that would get you an actual career with just the training like this.
And that website doesn't look real promising. They're focused on a very short frame of time for the training. Which usually means they want applicants in and out as quickly as possible whether you got an actual education or not. And take a look at their list of "Teachers". Look at the profiles of the teachers there. Most don't list any degree, and show a life of hopping from one temporary job to another. There's no stability or record of upward advancement in their field, and these are the teachers. That should tell you something.
It's impossible to tell you exactly what you need to get your foot in the door in an IT-related field. But I can tell you that this training won't open many doors for you, other than maybe an entry level position that will get you a little experience to build on for an actual career down the road.
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This is reeruned. I work for a big corporation in LA. It is pretty much impossible for us to find good CSS developers, and almost as hard to find good Javascript devs. Java devs are also still in plenty of demand, as is Ruby, Python, even PHP.
OP, get an entry-level programming book, download some frameworks and create some hello-world apps. Delve further into whatever interests you, find some open source projects, download the code and try to make your own changes. If you think you have something worthwhile, try to contribute it to the project. Go to meetups of devs, user's groups etc. Find people to act as mentors. Post on stack-overflow. Etc. etc. etc.
Seriously this field is still so hard to find good developers - if you show smarts and some initiative someone will give you a shot. From there you can get experience then hop to a pretty good job before you know it.