When you are new to programming, people will always advice you on the best language to start with. Some will say Python, others JavaScript, C, C++ or the common mark-up language, HTML5. This is quite tiresome to some people especially for self-taught programmers, and first year students in college. In most cases, you find yourself doing all these languages in the name of getting the basics but at the end, there is no solid portfolio to showcase a project. This is what happened to me. I started off with C, then went to C++, HTML and CSS and finally JavaScript but at the end I never had a project to showcase on my portfolio . Pretty messed up right? If you are new to programming, you can avoid this mess by embracing project-based learning. What is project-based learning? Project-based learning is a self-motivated approach in which a person learns a certain subject with an intended purpose to partake on a project which could be monetized, or just to acquire ...