Getting into web development

Getting into Web Development

I would like to share my experience in the field of web development and trying to create stuff as a newbie. Well, it’s both kind of fun and funny. The funny part is obvious to all coders who often get stuck trying to find a solution to some problem or a way to get things working. Sometimes it takes a few minutes and sometimes it takes a few days/weeks, you just have to be persistent/patient enough. Of course it gets frustrating along the way but all that goes away the moment you figure it out. Only then you start laughing about it and mocking yourself remembering how hopeless you were trying to find an answer. It’s just that you never know how long it might take to reach such a moment and hence, you just have to be patient.

This is where experience counts. The more experienced a person is, the more patient they get because they’ve been through a lot to know it’s sometimes very easy and sometimes very hard and you just have to accept it and keep building on it.

When it comes to building it gets so much fun. Because yes you have to learn a lot to be able to build stuff, but also the more you learn the more tools you have to build bigger and better things. So it’s that rewarding feeling you get when you see your products up and running and you get to show them around and get others impressed too.

Getting others impressed is such an addictive behavior. Because now they know you can build stuff and you are so into tech, but what about the type of stuff you build? Is it beautiful, easy to access? Is it useful enough? Is it making their lives easier or helping them in any way possible? Educating them maybe? So you also start to be way more consumer oriented than before. And the first step to get a consumer to use your product is by having it well designed.

Designing products is awesome. It allows you to take a good break from core coding while still working on development projects. You focus more on the order of the content, colors, ease of access and cool graphics. So you get to play around a little bit more and be more creative with your tools.

But that’s all silent work! You feel you’ve been working silently for such a long time to get your type of product, your design and it’s coding right. You miss chatting about stuff. You want to talk about your product(s), your perspective and how you made it through. So here you are, also turning into a good content creator! Good job. You start filling in the content of your products with your words, writing about your experience and views in blogs and also maybe teaching others about what you’ve reached and how you’ve managed to do so via social media connections that allow you to connect with everyone everywhere.

So I guess you yourself have to be more accessible to people along with your products. They should find no trouble finding you, chatting with you and asking you about stuff or even sharing stuff with you. It’s fun, it’s interesting and it opens new opportunities to connect with people, to learn from them, maybe they can also learn from you, get new ideas, try new methods and get career opportunities. So who doesn’t want that! It’s a win-win situation and is also amusing :)

The more amused you get the better you’d want to be at all the above mentioned skills. You want to be a better designer, a better coder, a better content creator and a better communicator! And so you prove that jack of all trades is in fact a master of some :)) but you also prove that it will be a life-long learning journey that will never end, unlike other careers where you’re done when you learn a thing, or two … or even a hundred!

So your knowledge in various other different fields add up to your experience in web development and that’s why it is quite an inviting field for everyone to shift into because you know that your everything adds up to your value as a developer and that you don’t really have to start from scratch. You just have to work on your less developed skills while maintaining your more developed ones. And all that is done through more patience and perseverance.

Good Luck :)