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Ashutosh
Ashutosh

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Begun.

I have always wanted to enter into the web development field.As this might as well be a famous question.Could anyone please recommend the best way to start off both front-end and back-end development?(it's fine to not have it user friendly)

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James Robb • Edited

W3Schools is the best resource in my opinion for absolute beginners to follow through.

If you’re more into videos than write ups then I’d recommend colt steels web developer Bootcamp on Udemy.

Either way, some tips:

  1. Don’t rush past topics, really get to grips with them before moving on at the start
  2. Start with languages before thinking about frameworks or libraries
  3. For frontend, do the following order and be comfortable with each step before moving forward: HTML -> CSS -> JavaScript
  4. For backend, don’t get overwhelmed, pick a single language that you personally seem to like and learn the basics before moving onto more advanced topics like databases and APIs.

Bonus tips:

  1. Once you have the basics down, learn TDD (test driven development) as this is a very important topic for professional developers
  2. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, someone will always help but make sure you try first and post what you tried with the question, no one will do the work to help you if you haven’t tried yourself first.
  3. Decide if frontend or backend is more interesting for you at the start and focus on that one first, don’t do too much at once if you can avoid it because you’ll probably overwhelm yourself in the end like that
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Ashutosh

Thanks a lot. I will get to it and now that I have this amazing community I feel confident. Thank you again.

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James Robb

You’re most welcome 🙏