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Re: Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019

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I still have to google how they work 15 years later...

/me googles... It seems they made things "simpler" by replacing all tags with `div`.

I made one perfect template that loads right in everything so I can make a new site without relearning web dev every time. I will never modify it out of fear of breaking it.

Re: Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019

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I'm currently teaching my brother web development and I guarantee if I were to show him this, he'd just quit. This is way too much information.

All a beginner needs to know is JS and the basics of HTML/CSS/SQL. If they have a mentor, the mentor should draw out and explain how frontend, backend and databases relate, and the general lifecycle of a request to a webpage.

That's all you really need to start building stuff. The next thing will probably be a basic understanding of DNS and how requests get routed.

Anything much more than that is overkill.

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Charts like these are guaranteed to scare anyone trying to enter the web development field. A junior position requires much less than is shown there.

As I interpret it, it mostly is a graphical representation of what's related to what. I don't see anything wrong with that goal. If you mean the sheer quantity of the possibilities will scare people away, then that may not be a bad thing. Software is growing into a messy conglomerate of technologies where each org selects what to put on their own stack(s). One must be aware of that nature of the biz because it's not growing simpler.

In the old days, the big vendors gave you a tool-set and you mastered whatever that gizmo was. Those days are probably dead. Most modern programmers are multi-sub-gizmo gluers.

As a sales tool for STEM, yes it's bad, but it's good as a reality-check about the industry.

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I am too young to have ever used tables for anything else than table data. I am almost 30 years old today and have worked as a dev my whole career. We sure have made some progress!

I take it, that you've never had to work with html emails then? groans You lucky soul!

I have, but I have always used normal html+css?

Re: Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019

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I remember back in the day when I was referred to as a "web master" - and I didn't even know how tables worked in HTML at the time.

I am too young to have ever used tables for anything else than table data. I am almost 30 years old today and have worked as a dev my whole career. We sure have made some progress!

I'd say you started too late, I'm only 2 years older and when I took my first steps, tables were still a layout tool ;)

Re: Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019

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I am too young to have ever used tables for anything else than table data. I am almost 30 years old today and have worked as a dev my whole career. We sure have made some progress!

Do a View Source on a HN page!

Oh my god
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