(September 6, 2018 at 3:06 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(September 6, 2018 at 8:38 am)emjay Wrote: Couldn't agree more. I basically lost a (junior) job in Web Development because after being thrown in at the deep end... I sunk; just surrounded by HTML, Javascript, CSS etc with no idea how it all fit together, and no instruction other than to work it out for myself.
And I agree also that it seems so much for so little... and from that perspective I don't like app development either because most of the programming involved is about appearance. In other words give me behind the scenes programming, that actually does something interesting, any day.
I prefer the back end (/Vorls) for that very reason. It's essentially the brains of the entire thing. Code that actually fulfills a purpose. Plus, I'm not very artistic. I can sort of feel my way through a design, and make something mostly competent, but I'll never be able to make something more than pleasantly functional.
I've no idea what /Vorls is, cos I don't keep up to date with technologies... and that's another reason I would never have faired well as a web developer; because everything's always changing and I can't keep up... I'm a slow learner like that. So it's basically only VB, Gambas (essentially a Linux version of VB), PHP, and more recently, Java through app programming, and Javascript through the Mafia programs I've written here, that I know or use. But I'm happy and proud that I was able to learn enough HTML, CSS, and Javascript together to make those two mafia programs... but both are still more about function than form. But that's as far as it goes with them, I still have no clue whatsoever how you'd go about making a modern site with them, especially the CSS aspect, and tbh I don't like using too modern sites, since the more flashy they are the slower they tend to load for me. So yeah, I'm not very artistic either... I prefer simple but functional designs.