From the course: Getting Started as a Full-Stack Web Developer
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Focus on a web-development specialty
From the course: Getting Started as a Full-Stack Web Developer
Focus on a web-development specialty
- [Instructor] Now let's look into the future. You've built a few websites of your own, and you've worked as a junior member on a development team. You want to go further, but in which direction? We could look at this in several ways, but let's start with the traditional division between front end and backend development. As a reminder, front end development relates to everything a visitor sees and experiences, what a website looks like and how it behaves. Backend development is concerned with making it all run smoothly. Practically speaking, front end devs absolutely need to know HTML and CSS very well, and probably JavaScript. Their work is seen by people, so they often need to do real world usability testing. If the site takes content from somewhere else, they need to make it look like it belongs there and they need a good understanding of the business goals of the organization as the website is that organization's public…
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