Introduction

This chapter is based on a subsection in Chapter 4.4 of The Developer’s Edge - How to Double Your Career Speed with Soft-Skills. Even though this book is a career book for software developers, the section on your learning plan applies to you in the context of where you are right now.

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I will assume that you have just finished reading the book, and you have solved and double checked all the exercises. If this is the case, congratulate yourself on a job well done. By solving the exercises, you have put a lot of effort into learning ES6.

If you have not solved the exercises yet, I highly recommend that you schedule solving them sooner or later to deepen your understanding of ES6.

We will now work on deepening your understanding even further. The goal of this section is not only to plan what is useful for you. We will also create leverage by linking your learning goals to your career plan.

When will you know that you are ready for the next step in your career? You are ready as soon as you create something tangible. What is a tangible result? Something that you are comfortable with presenting to the outside world. A high-quality blog post, an online service, or a GitHub repository will do.

Your learning plan will consist of five steps:

1. Sync your learning plan with your career plan.
2. Set your milestones.
3. Create the big picture.
4. Get feedback and iterate.
5. Present your deliverables.

In the next few lessons, I will discuss each of the five steps in more detail.