As a totally blind software developer for the last 30 years, who is now focusing 100% on web development I’m really appreciated that you mentioned at least three times the word accessibility. I don’t think many developers out there. Realize that accessibility is extraordinarily important not only for a subset of people who have vision impairments like myself, but is the population ages more more people are going to need this the assistive technology utilize fully in the website in order to get 100% use out of them. Maybe you could take a small video and show how to take a react or some other Spa framework application and go through using voice on Mac or narrator or NVDA on windows and how to ensure that the site is accessible. It’s not very difficult for a developer and doesn’t cost any kind of investment for any of those three screen readers for you to simply turn it on walk through your site and make sure that everything is labeled well and is accessible and understandable to someone who does not have sight. Keep up the great work.
Myth #13: 'A website needs to be perfect before launching.' I remember when I first started learning software development, my mentor told me, 'If you seek perfection, you will never make a release,' which is 100% true. Thanks for sharing this Video Brad.
3:00 Regarding the traditional education, one more point is that it helps moving abroad to find a job. So if you are not in Western countries and want to move to USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia etc. the degree in your field is helpful and sometimes even a must to get the visa and permit to come and work apart from the job offer itself.
Great video Brad. I've been watching your vids for years, and as a dev who taught myself to do this almost 20 years ago now, i really wish you'd been around then. You'd have saved me COUNTLESS hours banging my head against the wall trying to figure all this out properly on my own. YOu are a huge help to newbs learning how code.
Myth 6 expanded: Chat GPT is not taking your job, unless your job is creating boilerplate code over and over again. It's no doubt impressive, but it has serious limits that become clear as you try and expand beyond the most basic of tasks. The AI hype bubble is real, mostly because they need boatloads of cash to train and run these models . Most of what you do as a software developer is not actually writing code
Myth #13: When I was a young dev at 18 started development of my Q&A site (during my 1st year of university), I finished 3rd year without completing it, But fortunately It was already deployed it at Hostinger and life went on...
Thank you for sharing Brad! What I resonated with the most is myth 3 and I think the solution is not to be an extremist. Creating the balance means whichever route you take, building projects, engaging in hands on practice and gaining real-world experience is paramount to becoming a developer. Having a degree and also a practical experience is a plus. I'm currently enrolled in software engineering degree program but I also have two years of experience learning from courses, bootcamps, documentation and by building.
I am from accounting software development background back in most of the 90s and 2ks, that migrated to web development since 2001 and I can assure that webdev is much more complex.
I'm a huge fan of your work and I'm currently learning HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap. I was wondering if you could share with me some of your favorite extensions that you use for HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap development? I'd love to know what tools you use to streamline your workflow and improve your productivity. Additionally, could you please share the settings you use for each extension? It would be super helpful to see how you configure them. If possible, would you consider making a video showcasing your extensions and settings? I think it would be really valuable for someone like me who is just starting out with Bootstrap and front-end development. Thanks so much in advance for your help and guidance!
#4: My team runs multiple Next JS applications within a turbo monorepo, and uses a shared component library we've build from the ground up. Combined with abstractions like Typescript and fully customized Tailwind. Not even mentioning all the security, testing and CI/CD layers on top of it. So no, web development is not easy at all. It's very complex architecture.
Thanks for sharing. Coming from back end and solutions architecture I definitely agree that there is no reason to look down on front end; it is different from backend, but it is maybe even more challenging technically and more important to businesses to get right. I miss though two misconceptions in your list: 1) Security is not so important, we fix it afterwards. 2) Privacy is not a developer responsibility. If we give some cookie information and maybe a standard privacy statement, we are good. What do you think?
I actually have been delaying to send out my CV because I wanted my site to be perfect before I could include it in my portfolio and I was very wrong😢.I think I need to send my CVs out and get going thanks Brad
you could give AI with full coding capabilities and people won’t know how to prompt it because most (even “software engineers” ) people aren’t really that good at solving complex problems
Myth #9: Functionality is part of Design. Many people confuse layout, appearance, look’n’feel, stuffs like that, with design. Design includes all of the above PLUS functionality.
Web Dev isn't real engineering, it's modern blue collar work like construction. That's exactly why you don't need a theoretical degree. Imagine the engineer building your local bridge telling you that they never went to college and don't know any math or science 😂
I wish myth 6 was true or will become true, so damn tired of being a webdev and wanting to go back to game dev stuff. It's horrible working with frontend frameworks
@@deadlock107 because thats not where my job started. I did that for fun as a hobby and still do. I just really regret going into web dev because its honestly made me hate most companies far more than I already did and has caused needless stress
Great video! This video bursts myths like below: -Front and backend are completely separate -Wordpress developers are not real developers -Websites need to be perfect before launch -SEO is only about keywords -You always need the latest technologies Keep up the awesome work!
As a totally blind software developer for the last 30 years, who is now focusing 100% on web development I’m really appreciated that you mentioned at least three times the word accessibility. I don’t think many developers out there. Realize that accessibility is extraordinarily important not only for a subset of people who have vision impairments like myself, but is the population ages more more people are going to need this the assistive technology utilize fully in the website in order to get 100% use out of them. Maybe you could take a small video and show how to take a react or some other Spa framework application and go through using voice on Mac or narrator or NVDA on windows and how to ensure that the site is accessible. It’s not very difficult for a developer and doesn’t cost any kind of investment for any of those three screen readers for you to simply turn it on walk through your site and make sure that everything is labeled well and is accessible and understandable to someone who does not have sight. Keep up the great work.
Myth #13: 'A website needs to be perfect before launching.' I remember when I first started learning software development, my mentor told me, 'If you seek perfection, you will never make a release,' which is 100% true. Thanks for sharing this Video Brad.
3:00 Regarding the traditional education, one more point is that it helps moving abroad to find a job. So if you are not in Western countries and want to move to USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia etc. the degree in your field is helpful and sometimes even a must to get the visa and permit to come and work apart from the job offer itself.
Great video Brad. I've been watching your vids for years, and as a dev who taught myself to do this almost 20 years ago now, i really wish you'd been around then. You'd have saved me COUNTLESS hours banging my head against the wall trying to figure all this out properly on my own. YOu are a huge help to newbs learning how code.
Myth 6 expanded: Chat GPT is not taking your job, unless your job is creating boilerplate code over and over again. It's no doubt impressive, but it has serious limits that become clear as you try and expand beyond the most basic of tasks. The AI hype bubble is real, mostly because they need boatloads of cash to train and run these models .
Most of what you do as a software developer is not actually writing code
Myth #13: When I was a young dev at 18 started development of my Q&A site (during my 1st year of university),
I finished 3rd year without completing it, But fortunately It was already deployed it at Hostinger and life went on...
We need update on your node and express api master class at udemy.
Yup I was checking reviews on udemy for this course before buying.
Thank you for sharing Brad! What I resonated with the most is myth 3 and I think the solution is not to be an extremist. Creating the balance means whichever route you take, building projects, engaging in hands on practice and gaining real-world experience is paramount to becoming a developer. Having a degree and also a practical experience is a plus. I'm currently enrolled in software engineering degree program but I also have two years of experience learning from courses, bootcamps, documentation and by building.
I am from accounting software development background back in most of the 90s and 2ks, that migrated to web development since 2001 and I can assure that webdev is much more complex.
I'm a huge fan of your work and I'm currently learning HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap. I was wondering if you could share with me some of your favorite extensions that you use for HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap development? I'd love to know what tools you use to streamline your workflow and improve your productivity. Additionally, could you please share the settings you use for each extension? It would be super helpful to see how you configure them.
If possible, would you consider making a video showcasing your extensions and settings? I think it would be really valuable for someone like me who is just starting out with Bootstrap and front-end development. Thanks so much in advance for your help and guidance!
Sooo Awesome Brad as Usual!!! Still waiting on your LARAVEL Course After the great recent PHP Course as promised
You're always killing it Brad. Biggest respect
Great points. Myths make for a good watch. Keep up the good work Brad!
#4: My team runs multiple Next JS applications within a turbo monorepo, and uses a shared component library we've build from the ground up. Combined with abstractions like Typescript and fully customized Tailwind. Not even mentioning all the security, testing and CI/CD layers on top of it. So no, web development is not easy at all. It's very complex architecture.
Thanks for sharing. Coming from back end and solutions architecture I definitely agree that there is no reason to look down on front end; it is different from backend, but it is maybe even more challenging technically and more important to businesses to get right.
I miss though two misconceptions in your list: 1) Security is not so important, we fix it afterwards. 2) Privacy is not a developer responsibility. If we give some cookie information and maybe a standard privacy statement, we are good.
What do you think?
Thank you for the information
I see a video by Brad, I like first, then watch the rest of the video ❤
I actually have been delaying to send out my CV because I wanted my site to be perfect before I could include it in my portfolio and I was very wrong😢.I think I need to send my CVs out and get going thanks Brad
you could give AI with full coding capabilities and people won’t know how to prompt it because most (even “software engineers” ) people aren’t really that good at solving complex problems
Always dropping gems 💎
Thanks so much brad for encouragement to some of us who are beginners
Myth #9: Functionality is part of Design. Many people confuse layout, appearance, look’n’feel, stuffs like that, with design. Design includes all of the above PLUS functionality.
Hello thanks for the videos help us on how to optimize websites
Web Dev isn't real engineering, it's modern blue collar work like construction. That's exactly why you don't need a theoretical degree. Imagine the engineer building your local bridge telling you that they never went to college and don't know any math or science 😂
I found the last one useful for me ❤
Myth 13 is what I needed to hear. Thank you
Thanks. I found it helpful
Great advice
Especially myth 6, 7, 9 and 13
Thank you Brad I needed to hear this
Thanks Brad 😊
Do you have any courses on SEO?
Thanks a lot Brad 💪🏻
I would love to see a svelteKit crash course from you...
What about the laravel course you promised to release
Myth #4 is the biggest misconception! Web development is complex.
Thanks Brad :)
Dunno if you need to or can change title typo, 'Developement' should be 'Development'
Amazing 🔥🔥
While I love a great and unique design, could not agree more about the importance of UX and accessibility in comparison.
Thanks for the video.
Well God bless you Brad❤
You only need to know everything when job searching and interviewing. After that you dont, until you get laid off and have to look for work again.
Please make an updated Angular crash course
you are right, thanks 🎉
🔥as always 📈
you are wrong about the backend bit, i am open to debate
You put "Developement" in the title instead of 'Development'.
I wish myth 6 was true or will become true, so damn tired of being a webdev and wanting to go back to game dev stuff. It's horrible working with frontend frameworks
Then why don't you go back to game development?
@@deadlock107 because thats not where my job started. I did that for fun as a hobby and still do. I just really regret going into web dev because its honestly made me hate most companies far more than I already did and has caused needless stress
your title has a mistake of spelling "development"
Please Brad can you make a course on React Native on udemy
No dev jobs right now
I could add - "standard HTML inputs/components are not ass and easy to style and customize"
Thanks a lol ❤
lol
Great video! This video bursts myths like below:
-Front and backend are completely separate
-Wordpress developers are not real developers
-Websites need to be perfect before launch
-SEO is only about keywords
-You always need the latest technologies
Keep up the awesome work!