How to be a freelancer coder? And do you have a roadmap?

[SuccessIsTheOnlyOption]

Hi,

I am learning C#, and it is going well. I want to be a wanted coder by the companies in the future, but first I want to make a few bucks by freelancing.

Do you have any tips on how to be a freelancer coder?

And do you have a roadmap to become a full .NET developer?

Please share your tips and complete "learn this and that" list.

Thank you.

 

[rootjazz]

practise practise practise. Always keep working on real projects, whether personal or not. Keep building. Keep learning. You will always be improving. I am shocked when I look at code I wrote 2 years ago, because the code I write now is much better. Am absolutely horrified at code I wrote 10 years ago

Being a freelancer is hard, you are a learner. You will be competing against competant programmers who charge little. When I was freelancing, you can focus on (as well as your dev skills) communication, design, availability which customers appreciate which are some software skills many devs do not have.

 

[thetrustedzone]

best website to improve your c# skills is https://www.pluralsight.com
you could find paths to learn c# and related frameworks to be full stack .Net , you could get cheap pluralsight accounts on ebay... good luck

 

[alurosu]

Once you finish some basic tutorials, make sure you create a project of your own. A real use case will make you search for information that will not be in the training.

After you have 2-3 finished projects, go on upwork and apply for simple fixes. 20 applications = 1 job (roughly)

 

[Sarahelaune327]

Expand your Communication Skills and Set basic Working Rules.

 

[darkblackdark]

I would say:
1. learn/improve your coding skills
2. start some private projects and upload to github as reference
3. create own website for yourself with references, maybe starting with free projects
4. go upwork or any other freelancer platform and marketing

 

[smurfelina]

You need to have a good fundamental understanding of the language if you will be able to work as a freelance. I would suggest you start with some course or tutorial and later move on to create some hobby projects. Easy ones in the beginning and later scaling up to bigger projects. This will improve your programming and problem solution skills a lot and also show potential customers that you know what you are doing.

 

[tubeboost]

Try to find job on linkedin.

 

[MAPlus]

practise practise practise. Always keep working on real projects, whether personal or not. Keep building. Keep learning. You will always be improving. I am shocked when I look at code I wrote 2 years ago, because the code I write now is much better. Am absolutely horrified at code I wrote 10 years ago

Being a freelancer is hard, you are a learner. You will be competing against competant programmers who charge little. When I was freelancing, you can focus on (as well as your dev skills) communication, design, availability which customers appreciate which are some software skills many devs do not have.

What kind of practice? You got any tips on projects one could aim for or any books that helped you out on your way?

 

[vuminh075]

I would say:
1. learn/improve your coding skills
2. start some private projects and upload to github as reference
3. create own website for yourself with references, maybe starting with free projects
4. go upwork or any other freelancer platform and marketing

good advice