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Things you should know before start Web-Development:

Web Development is divided into two parts Frontend development and Backend development.

1. The major difference between front-end development and back-end development. You’ll end up knowing a bit of both, but most specialise in one or the other. As for how to decide which way to go: back-end handles the ins and outs of data (where you’re more likely to run into things like algorithms, if you enjoy maths and logics), while front-end presents them in a user-friendly and creative way

2. Just like with any other programming job, it's more about problem solving than it is about non-stop code generation. Take front-end development as an example: more than anything else you'll find yourself struggling with all kinds of weird compatibility issues, because unlike IOS/Android development, something working on one platform never ever equals to it working on all (let's not talk about IE the evil). It could be confusing and frustrating at first, but this part gets better with experience. However even with experience you'll still run into all kinds of weird issues daily anyway, so if you enjoy solving problems you'll likely enjoy web-development.

 

3. Things move fast with web-development. Really fast. With ECMAScript standards changing, browsers updating, tools and frameworks going in and out of style... It's a never-ending journey of new knowledge absorbing. Which doesn't necessarily mean you'll need to learn them all, but it does require curiosity and an open mind about learning new things.

4. And something on the actual learning part I wish someone had told me two years ago:

When you start, you'll be tempted to spend days or even weeks going through the list of all HTML tags/attributes, CSS properties and jQuery functions, take notes and try reciting them before you do anything else... Don't. For one thing, it's overwhelmingly scary how much you seemingly need to remember to do the job. For another, it's only psychologically satisfying since you seem to have done a lot of work (same with video watching), but it doesn't really yield much effect to go through details in the beginning--you'll likely forget the parameter and the detailed usage of a specific function in days.

Instead, quickly skim through them all in a day, only to have a vague idea of what effects you could achieve with them. Some CSS properties could underline words, some enlarge fonts... Don't try to remember all the details about how to use them. Or even their names.