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What are some misconceptions about web development?

When people think "web development", what do they get wrong?

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Julia Flash

Fun one I heard last week: Dark web requires a special assortment of hard to get computer software, thats why nobody knows about it who are normal and that are not computer experts. ๐Ÿ‘€

On a podcast's Patreon episode.

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jgusta • Edited

Two things... 1. Family / friends think I make the content myself or at least that my job is mainly to post content. 2. That any software package โ€œthat does what we wantโ€ can be hooked up to their legacy web code base easily and will save time because it already does the thing.

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Sethu Senthil

Java === JavaScript

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Necmettin Begiter

Not about web development but about web developers: We can do anything on any electric/electronic device and anything to such devices. Be it a television, a computer, a printer, a mobile phone, a mouse, a website, a server, a client app, a mobile app and many many more. We can install, fix, format, choose for purchase, configure, and perform any other verb/action.

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Alain D'Ettorre

According to family, I make computers do beep boops and get paid for that.

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Adam Parkin

That true "full stack" developers exist, rather than just front-end devs who know a little server side language, or backend devs that know a little JS.

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Jesse M. Holmes

Jeanene still tells everyone that I update Twitter for work, so โ€ฆ

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Taufik Nurrohman • Edited

That I can hack other Facebook accounts just after opening an element inspector.

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Pete

That you need a CS degree.

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Nedim F

That CSS is fun. Itโ€™s the worst!

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createitcarlos • Edited

Them: can't you just use Wordpress for that?

Or "Wordpress just comes with that built in"
Me: No that's a plug-in, or, I have to make that custom
Them: no it comes built in
Me: palm to face ( agggh don't touch your face!)

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createitcarlos

You know, 7 red lines all perpendicular to each other.
youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

It's easy

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urvashi soni

According to all my non-tech friends, I can fix our Wifi, fix out Smart TV, setup projector in the house and obviously fix it as well and whenever I am winning any online game, I have found some hack LMAO.

 
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Victor Barbu

In the same manner, we could perhaps say JSON is a programming language, and YAML is a programming language., none of which is not true.