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📣 celurian92

Have learning budget of $100. Which courses can I use that for


I am a java developer who is working with Spring boot, Jersey, Mysql, Vue and typescript. My company provided $100 budget for learning which I can use for doing courses and skill development which is relevant to my work. Can anyone suggest some good courses and certification that will help me in my career and work as well


  👤 ilaksh Accepted Answer ✓
Sorry I don't know about courses but I do have an idea.

Go to Upwork and search for Vue or Vue.js or other relevant keywords and try to find a project with something like a specification or at least a description of the system.

Then pretend you were hired for that project and build it with your stack. You can then put it on a portfolio site.

You might also be able to do something similar with other jobs sites, job postings, or just looking at some interesting SaaS or other software and trying to build it in your stack.

Just make sure to find something interesting and not very complex.

Break off little pieces of it and build up your experience day by day. It is quite a lot of technology to become familiar with. Don't be disappointed if you can't remember. Be patient with yourself. It's a huge amount of information.

Get a $20/month ChatGPT Plus subscription. You can ask it to create exercises or a curriculum. The biggest issue will be training yourself to use it judiciously so you actually learn how to use those technologies rather than learning how to just prompt ChatGPT. I guess it could backfire so you may have to consider blocking yourself from opening ChatGPT entirely if you really can't stop yourself. Unless you want to take the chance of not being able to program with those technologies at all without ChatGPT.