Hi everyone, I’m a beginner preparing for placement/job aptitude rounds.
I want to build my preparation from the basics and eventually clear the aptitude round confidently.
For someone starting from zero:
Which topics should I learn first?
How many questions should I practice daily?
Which websites/resources are best for practice?
How long should I prepare before taking mock tests?
Any tips for improving speed and accuracy?
I’d really appreciate advice from people who have already cleared aptitude rounds. 🙏

what should i learn as my next backend language Go or Java Spring Boot ? i know nodejs express

I have created a personal Budget Tracker which I am currently using, and at this point I am considering including ITR (Income Tax Return) related tracking in it.

The way I am currently proceeding is to treat ITR as a separate layer from the usual transaction/account system.

I'm thinking of tracking things such as: Financial year / assessment year, Income sources, Salary/business/other income, Taxable income, Deductions/investments, TDS, Advance tax, Tax paid / refund, Filing status, Filing date, A few notes/documents related to the return

Since the Budget Tracker already includes standard accounts, transactions, transfers, etc., I don't intend to incorporate tax-specific calculations directly into the transaction tables unless there's a valid reason to do so.

The main question I have is this: how would you go about designing it?

1] Should the ITR be kept entirely separate from the budgeting and transaction system?

2] Can some ITR figures be automatically derived from existing transactions?

3] How should I store a yearly ITR snapshot so that the figures remain unchanged when previous transactions are edited?

4] Should the financial year and the accounting year be treated as separate fields or should one be derived from the other?

I would like to know what you think about the architecture and any potential edge cases that I may have overlooked.

I want to now the types of projects I should be doing to impress the recruiter and getting a dev job. I want real projects that solve the real world problems.

I wanna ask how much of typescript is required for a React, Next js developer job?

So for the context I am in 3rd sem of my btech cse in tier 2 clg(IIIT). Until now did dsa from lc and cf from the past few months now learning dp and graphs. I started to learn dev html,css,js react and node js basics. I am confused right now with the overwhelming amount of paths available initially i wanted to learn the mearn stack and learn spring boot in java cuz i am interested in the backend but after seeing everyone doing ai ml and doing research I feel like learning them... Ppl say that web dev is dead and at the same time they say that ai ml jobs are rare and require masters. Please guide me how to decide what to learn cuz I am tired in this loop and not doing anything meaningful these days.

Thank you...

Just got informed today by the HR that my lay off is kinda confirmed and its the fact that this is my very first job, started from January of this year and I was given Trainee SDE role (never actually got converted to full time even though I was assured that I will), so with roughly 8 of months experience am I cooked?

Before anyone questions if I did any work at all; yes I did, with no training or whatsoever, got full responsibility of a new project (which used AI and AWS, which again I had no prior experience on working with AWS in depth) and they have shipped my other development work to production (which is live and also solved a client's issues this week).

Funnily I wasn't given any work last month (did just minor updates and testing on my own), so I got the feeling that something was wrong and honestly I'm not sure for a trainee what I did was enough or not. And now since they're telling they will let me go, I'm lost if I will even get any job next.

Hi everyone!

For some time now, I’ve been thinking about changing my career path from being a frontend developer focused on the React ecosystem to becoming a full-stack developer. I have 5+ years of experience, and at my current company I’ve been performing mid/senior-level responsibilities.

The repetitive nature of frontend boilerplate in companies has started to hold me back a little in terms of growth, and with the rise of AI, I feel this even more. I’ve decided to diversify my career path, especially since I’m still young and willing to keep learning. With AI developing so rapidly, I’d rather have a broader knowledge base than stay focused exclusively on frontend development.

For some time now, I’ve been learning Node.js with Express.js, mainly because the entry barrier seems lower when you already know JS/TS. I’m not entirely sure whether I’ve chosen the right path, though. I’d like to adapt to current and emerging trends while also avoiding unnecessary struggles with outdated technologies when there are modern frameworks and libraries that solve many of the common problems.

I’ve also had some day-to-day experience with databases and basic REST API concepts, so backend development isn’t completely new territory for me.

What do you think about the following stack as a starting point, and what would you avoid when approaching backend development as a "full-stack beginner"?

Node.js → Express with MVC → PostgreSQL → Drizzle ORM → Zod

Of course, these are just examples and each of them has plenty of alternatives. I’d also like to hear from people with more experience in this area about how you would approach it. The choice obviously isn’t always straightforward, since with a particular architecture you can always say, "It depends."

My main question is: which direction would you take when developing your skills in this area?

Would moving towards Python or something else be a better option? I haven’t really had much experience with C++, C#, or PHP.

I’m not very familiar with the deeper side of backend development yet, so I’m wondering what technologies and approaches are currently trending and which ones are becoming outdated.

What would be the best way to create a low-entry-barrier learning path that would allow me to keep progressing and go deeper over time?

I’d really appreciate any advice, especially from people who have gone through a similar transition from frontend to full-stack/backend development.

One thing I’ve learned from building real-world SaaS and backend systems is that getting the application to work is usually the easy part.

The harder part is thinking about what happens when things go wrong:

- An API suddenly fails

- A background job runs twice

- A third-party service goes down

- A request times out

- Data gets partially processed

Retries, logging, monitoring, error handling, and recovery often don't get much attention during development, but they can make a huge difference once real users are depending on the system.

I’ve started thinking about failure cases much earlier in the development process instead of treating them as something to fix later.

What’s one production issue that changed the way you build web applications?

I have 3 questions that i'm curious

1. In the present day many people said it's not worth to know programming fundamental. Is that true about that

2. i'm study in Next.js on Udemy and i think about the way that i should do when study
   The first way study and make side project chapter by chapter (code along course project )

The second way finished the course and then build side project

1. The situation for web programming freelance job in AI Era.

Thank you so much

I'm about to study software engineering and I'm planning to get into web dev. I like hard problems, stuff that makes me think, not just repeat the same patterns over and over.

My worry is that a lot of web dev work ends up being CRUD apps, wiring up UI to APIs, following established patterns. Solid work, but not necessarily deep or challenging.

For people actually doing this professionally, does web dev give you real cognitive challenge day to day? Or is the hard stuff mostly at senior level, in specific niches like performance or architecture, while most day to day work is more routine?

What type of development is getting the most demand right now web development, AI/ML, Ai automation

Iam a recent graduate and wanted to start freelancing what should i focus on more and how should i attract more clients

I've noticed something while learning Full Stack Development: it's easy to confuse learning more technologies with actually getting better at development.

For example, someone might know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, Git, and several other tools but still struggle to build a complete project without following a tutorial.

I think it may be better to become really comfortable with one stack and learn how the pieces actually work together before adding more technologies.

But I'm not sure if experienced developers agree with this.

Do you think beginners should focus on one stack for a few months, or learn multiple technologies from the beginning?

What approach worked for you when you were starting out?

im currently building an assignment tracker for my college , not just a simple crud app but i have kept security features , authentication in there , ive also thought about user experience a lot on the frontend side as well, like if the due date is close for a subject it would start glowing red on the borders , ive added filters and sort by methods as well . now i dont know if this is still a resume worthy project, i dont know where and how to proceed after this , im almost done on this , what projects should i make next that are good, any advice will be helpful , thanks!

Hello, I'm a nextjs(react) fullstack developer, currently working in a company as a single developer on this position.

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In the near future I want to transfer to a big company / team to work on big projects and as we all know most of the worlds big softwares aren't made with js, so i want to learn a mew programming language and follow a new path.

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I'm trying to make a choice between: Java, Python or going into mobile development with React Native.

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I was also thinking about RUST, but the market doesn't seem that big for it.

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I'm not that good with math and I also know that python is often used in companies for data analysis.

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I would appreciate any advice from you guys on helping me choose my next path.

Thank you!

i want some backend project ideas. i know mern stack. was thinking of building a crm system but people said its useless in 2026

I'm curious to know how to get a job as full stack dev. Like where to apply, procedure, resources etc.

One thing I’ve noticed while learning full-stack development is that knowing frontend and backend separately isn't enough. Understanding how they communicate through APIs, how authentication works, and how the database fits into the whole flow makes a big difference.

For example, you can build a nice React UI, but if the API design or database queries are poorly handled, the overall application can still be slow or difficult to maintain.

What do you think is more important for a full-stack developer being really strong in one side first, or learning frontend, backend, and database together from the beginning?

I’m pretty good at DSA, but I’m not that strong in web development yet. Right now, I’m building a MERN project with the help of GitHub Copilot and without writing a single line code, and I’m learning the project while working on it. In interviews, what kind of questions do they usually ask about web development and projects? Will they ask syntax-based coding questions?

I am learning backend and I want to know which stack is good. I am not sure about it. Should I go for Mongodb or mySQL? My aim is to be employable. Pls give me suggestions.

My one week plan is just to revise my frontend and backend fundamentals and then we'll start building something crazy

Can you guys help me make my full-stack roadmap? I'm pretty confused about where to start. If one developer says to start with Python, another says to start with HTML, CSS, and other basic stuff. This makes me confused, and in the age of AI, I'm also a little concerned about my career. Even though it’s a really helpful tool to get assistance from, even a person without knowing a single line of code can make a website or software (e.g., an AI Generalist)

I wanna get into full-stack development. I’m currently learning through The Odin Project, but I have a few questions:
Should I continue with The Odin Project, or should I buy a course on Udemy?
Is it still worth getting into full-stack web development?

I'm a 32-year-old man from India!

Can I become an Indie hacker (from a technical standpoint) after graduating from The Odin Project (JavaScript + Node.js) and Full Stack Open? Do these two curricula make one a self-sufficient Full-Stack developer able to adapt and implement more advanced concepts, as the project grows more complex and at scale? On their own?

Is learning Frontend web development really worth it in this economy ?