After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

Re:After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Lif... by jacquesm on Thursday October 03, 2013 @11:45AM (#6489735)

Not it has not, yes it has. Web development is for many intents and purposes now the equivalent of software development. That there are other areas of interest (embedded, systems software, application development and so on) does not detract from the fact that if you want to do software development web development is more than likely your point of entry and it's a field wide enough and deep enough that you could easily lose several careers in it.

So for her it is a broad foundation to jump off of, more so than assembly language programming or toying around with clojure.

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Re:After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Lif... by ChuckMcM on Thursday October 03, 2013 @11:52AM (#6489787)

+1 to this, while some folks seem rather dismissive of web site design as "programming" (and I did back in the HTML4 days but these days, its very much a program) here is someone who has looked at this particular aspect and poked into a bunch of different areas. And that is all good.

So much better to have 6 months experience building web sites before you say "I'll just make a career in building web sites" :-)

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Re:After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Lif... by sharkweek on Thursday October 03, 2013 @12:00PM (#6489856)

I hate the argument that you have to dive into some complex language to really "understand" programming --

Some people just like to build stuff; much akin to someone who might just want to change the oil in their car. You would never ask them to build an entire transmission for their first project.

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Re:After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Lif... by ionforce on Thursday October 03, 2013 @02:30PM (#6490921)

Sure, you don't "have to" but you most likely do.

To understand something implies some grasp of scope and size. And if you're continually working on toy problems, you'll never encounter problems of the appropriate scope or issues of scale.

So that's kind of what people mean when they say you need to work with something complex. To understand a complex system is to know which parts are important and which aren't and at which levels of examination.

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Re:After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Lif... by jorgeleo on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:06PM (#6490318)

I post one answer to all the posts

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