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Student resources
Everything here is somebody else’s work, linked to and credited. It is the shortlist a second-year actually needs: what a good portfolio looks like, and the tools that get you from nothing to one.
Look first
Portfolios worth studying
Ranked for range, not for polish. A first-project deploy sits at number one next to people who have been writing for a decade — because a student who only ever sees the finished end of the scale learns the bar is unreachable rather than that it is climbable.
01Ramen Shop ProA real project, shipped and deployed.ramen-shop-pro-jesse-s-pro-team-595da84f.vercel.app(opens in a new tab)02Brittany ChiangThe one most student portfolios are copied from.brittanychiang.com(opens in a new tab)03Lee RobinsonWriting first, work second.leerob.com(opens in a new tab)04Josh W. ComeauWhat interaction design looks like done properly.joshwcomeau.com(opens in a new tab)05Tania RasciaBuilt from what she learned in public.taniarascia.com(opens in a new tab)06Cassidy WilliamsPersonality without losing the plot.cassidoo.co(opens in a new tab)07Ola OluMotion used with restraint.olaolu.dev(opens in a new tab)08Jacek JeznachOne page that does the whole job.jacekjeznach.com(opens in a new tab)09Anand ChowdharyEverything he has done, in public and dated.anandchowdhary.com(opens in a new tab)10Kent C. DoddsA portfolio that turned into a career.kentcdodds.com(opens in a new tab)
Then build
Useful to a student
Short on purpose. A list of forty tools is a list nobody opens; these answer the questions somebody halfway through a degree is actually stuck on.
01A thousand more portfoliosThe list the ten above came from.github.com(opens in a new tab)02Portfolios with their sourceRead how they were built, not just how they look.github.com(opens in a new tab)03What to learn nextRoadmaps for every path you could take.roadmap.sh(opens in a new tab)04Something to buildReal designs to implement when you have no ideas.frontendmentor.io(opens in a new tab)05Your first contributionOpen issues that are meant for beginners.goodfirstissue.dev(opens in a new tab)06How contributing worksRead this before the first pull request, not after.opensource.guide(opens in a new tab)07Write the READMEThe part of every project that gets skipped.readme.so(opens in a new tab)08Free while you studyTools that cost money the day you graduate.education.github.com(opens in a new tab)