Hi there, Hive Programmers and everyone, welcome to my favorite science community online, StemSocial.
It's @skyehi, and this is a special episode in my programming series.
Although my series is centered more on Android App Development, the main goal is to help beginners build their programming skills to a professional level and perhaps land a great job as a programmer.
In today's blog, I wanted to teach a few tips on becoming a professional Web App developer and improving your skills to be able to get great jobs as a developer.
In the Web development world, there are different phases, and each phase has different checkpoints.
Before I get started, Web Apps are, as the name suggests, half website and half App. There are quite a number of web Apps around these days, and most of the social media platforms now have their WebApp versions.
Take Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, for example. All these platforms I just mentioned are actually websites. You can easily visit their main websites.
However, the developers have built Web App versions of the websites so users can conveniently use the platforms on their Android and iOS phones or any other Operating system the developer made the App compatible with.
So my task for this episode is to show you guys the different things you'll have to learn and master before becoming capable of developing any kind of Web App and becoming a professional landing a good job or even freelance works online.
Web Apps are first websites, so they'll definitely require that the developer is good with the following languages; HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Firebase.
Each language you master would allow you to be able to build a piece of the entire Web Application.
You know you have mastered HTML very well if you can build a website. The HTML programming language is the very basics of website development.
A website is built using this particular mark-up language. That's your very basics as a web developer.
And in fact, since my series is on Android App Development, the language used in building the user interface of Android Apps via Android Studio is XML. This is also a mark-up language. So, guys, mastering HTML not only gives you website development experience but also allows you to learn a lot about how mark-up languages work.
- You know you've learned CSS when you can style the website you just built.
CSS is mainly all about styling your website. All the beautiful designs, layouts, alignments, and images you see these flawless websites display are mostly built using CSS. So, guys, that's another language and checkpoint for you.
- You know you have mastered JavaScript when you can make the website you just built and style have some functionality.
When it comes to logic codes and tasks that your websites can perform, the main language to focus on has to be JavaScript. The moment you master this language, you hold in your hands and mind the ability to implement functionalities in your website.
- The final stage is transforming your website into a WebApp, and that's where React and Firebase come in.
You know how to use React and Firebase when you can build a website, style it, add some functionality to it, and then make it a real web application. Firebase would also help you a lot with the database structure of your WebApp.
Apps, especially social media platforms, need a database to store user information, posts, comments, chats, feed, or content details and other user interactions. Firebase can help a lot with that.
And now, guys, this is the part that everyone wants: getting a programming job.
Landing a job is about building a good resume and portfolio so you actually get an interview and preparing for that interview so you actually land the job. It all comes down to how well you have mastered these programming languages I just listed and your ability to communicate with customers to create what they want.
Nowadays, you can learn all this stuff for free on YouTube.
To be honest, a huge percentage of my training was not from my University experience in Information Technology or Software engineering, but from programming tutorials on YouTube.
Simply search for an HTML course on YouTube, and you'd be surprised at how many videos that will come up.
Like I always say, practicing over and over is the only way to become a pro at anything.
I hope this brief blog helps any beginner programmer or software developer down the path to becoming a professional Web App developer.
Thanks so much for your time.
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