For the better part of the last 2 years I've been freelancing part-time as a Wordpress developer, focused mainly on building custom themes and modifying existing plugins. Naturally, this meant PHP was the thing to learn, since I was already familiar with HTML/CSS, and 99% of the time, a bit of jQuery on the side was just enough to get the job done. However, after taking a break for a couple of months in order to focus solely on school, I've realised something pretty scary: I actually suck at programming.
What I mean by this, is not that I can't code ( I've pretty much learned programming by myself and am passionate about it ), but the fact that this entire time I've been half-assing it, and now I find myself in a place where I'm not really good at anything. I mean, I know a little bit of C that I picked up in school ( although no OOP ), enough PHP in order to be able to write simple functions that hook into Wordpress, a little bit of Ruby I picked up while building a Rails app, and although I am pretty good with HTML/CSS I'm definitely not up to date with the latest technologies.
So now, after graduating high school and making the decision to get into full-time freelancing, I'm faced with the following dilemma: What would be the the best thing to learn next? I am interested in web development ( although it's not excluded I'm going to learn iOS dev. too sometime in the future ), and after a lot of research I still have no idea what's the right way to go. Foe example, I know I could get serious about learning Rails ( or Django, for that matter ), but then from what I've been reading more recently, javascript ( and javascript-based MVC frameworks ) are the next big thing, and that's what I should focus on.
I know this is a pretty subjective matter, but I'm hoping there are some general guidelines which will help me make the best decision. Thank you!
So now, after graduating high school and making the decision to get into full-time freelancing, I'm faced with the following dilemma: What would be the the best thing to learn next? I am interested in web development ( although it's not excluded I'm going to learn iOS dev. too sometime in the future ), and after a lot of research I still have no idea what's the right way to go. Foe example, I know I could get serious about learning Rails ( or Django, for that matter ), but then from what I've been reading more recently, javascript ( and javascript-based MVC frameworks ) are the next big thing, and that's what I should focus on.
I know this is a pretty subjective matter, but I'm hoping there are some general guidelines which will help me make the best decision. Thank you!