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Web Development For Beginners

Emma Bostian
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8 min readMay 22, 2018

We all use the web every single day, but how many of us actually know how it works or the skills necessary to become a web developer?

There are many wonderful jobs you can have as a front-end developer (FED). And it’s becoming more commonplace for companies to hire FEDs with either no college degree or an unrelated (to computer science) college degree.

What’s so wonderful about this career is that anyone can learn to become a FED without shelling out major money for it.

Today we’ll dive into the basic skills required to become a web developer.

This article is meant to be a high-level guide for beginners to web development. Feel free to skip sections you’re already familiar with.

The Web

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Our story begins in 1989 with a man called Tim Berners Lee. A British Computer Scientist, Berners Lee set out to solve one major problem: how can we share and manage information throughout the world?

At the very core of it, the Internet is just a series of computers connected by millions of cables. In contrast, the web consists of billions of digital pages that are viewable through web…

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Written by Emma Bostian

Software Engineer @ LogMeIn by day, cat Mom by night. Also a full-time Bibliophile. I enjoy all things Front-end & Design

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