Second Personal Project
Build a personal project on your own, completely from scratch, then submit it to the community for feedback.
Author
Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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20 Hours
of content
4 Addicting
lessons
Earn a certificate
of completion
Learn online
at your pace
What will you learn?
You can't truly become a developer if you can't build your own stuff. Theory and foundations are important, but you also need to be able to fly solo. The purpose of this project is two-fold: a chance to put your skills into practice and to add another project to your portfolio. Well-built personal projects will help you land interviews and jobs, so make sure to put in the effort!
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Could use more exercises, but solid overall.
BarnesUK
Chicago
The real-world context made the concepts click for me.
Allan Amstadt
Germany
Appreciated the tips on common pitfalls and debugging.
Sanket Nandkishor Charbhe
India
This lesson exceeded my expectations. I went in thinking I knew the basics, but the deeper dives into trade-offs and edge cases were exactly what I needed. The instructor didn’t just show ‘happy path’ solutions: they demonstrated how to think about failure modes, performance bottlenecks, and future extensibility. The capstone project, while optional, gave me the perfect sandbox to experiment and get feedback.
Eli Sokov
New York City, NY, USA
Helpful examples and explanations.
Jeremy Novak
Weatherford, TX
Solid overview with just enough depth to be practical.
Jonathan Schweder
Dublin, Ireland
Appreciated the tips on common pitfalls and debugging.
Hunter Beckmann
Utahtest
The real-world context made the concepts click for me.
Jerry Erbs
Hamburg, Germany
Challenging but rewarding.
Lam Tran
Saigon, Vietnam
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Mediocrity doesn't cut it anymore
The only way to become a great developer is to write a lot of code
Avoid tutorial hell
by writing a ton of code
Stay motivated with
a game-like curriculum
Build portfolio projects
to prove your skills
Delve deeper
into foundational concepts
Learn flexibly online
without interrupting your life
For 1% the price of college
to minimize your financial risk
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