Shifting gears in my career to transition into a product manager/product marketing manager role. Considering different bootcamp options to gain the technical skills since that's currently where I'm lacking the most. What advice would you give someone on laying the foundation?

My current plan is to learn HTML/CSS/Javascript first since I know a little already, and I'm about to enroll in the Product School PMC course. This would also get into SQL/Ruby/Python + product analytics or product design

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To the question of if this is the right tech to learn, sure, why not. They're all in the nice to have but not necessary category.

I'm skeptical of your pick for how to learn though. Product School to bring up technical skills seems like an odd choice. You seem like you're just starting out with dev type stuff, so all the coursework will be syntax-focused at this stage. There are tons of free and cheap resources out there for this kind of studying, without their very large price tag. Kind of skeptical of Product School even for product sense classes though--while I've heard the curriculum is good, I've also heard that placement afterwards is very very very bad.

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You can make a project out of anything. Just pick a thing and do it. Course projects only stand out in that you have a deadline.

What do you need html/css/js for?

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In my opinion It’s really driven by product (duh) and industry.

Like if you are pm for web dev that I can sort see benefits of knowing some js

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Yeah. Why front end languages?

Maybe your firm requires this specific skillset for a PM, can you share more here?

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Ah, for pm in tech field l, python can’t go wrong tbh

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