Hey guys , its just have been a 1-2 months for me, since i have started learning front end web development . And I must say that it has been a good journey for me till now . In the beginning of my days I distinguished between front end and back end as it always crept up during my initial days . Then I decided to start working on front end departments. For those who don’t know what both these terms means , a simple example can make you understand both of these terms . So , most of you would have probably watched T.V. news channels, in that we observe that some people tell you the news content without giving you knowledge of how the camera is rolling out ,in which manner they have gathered the information ,how the entire broadcasting is carried out etc. Now compare this with a web page ( the page that you see in the Internet world). What you see with your naked eyes is the part of the front end web development part . Any of the text , videos , color , styling , etc. in a web page comes under front-end web development part only.
Now , you must be curious to know what exactly in a webpage comes under the back end department then . You must have visited any of the log in page of a website ( collection of webpages ) . Consider this webpage to understand things in a bit easier way , as earlier told , right now what you are seeing is all done with the languages which comes under front end category . After you have entered the required information needed to log in, you click on the log in button and provided that you have entered the correct information you will be redirected towards your desired page . So how it happened, here is where back end comes into play . When you were signing up for the website , then all of your information was stored somewhere in a place which is technically called as database . That remains there without you being able to see with your naked eyes and when you log in , it checks the data in the database and performs the necessary actions .This is how you can think of how both the front end and back end works . There’s lots of other things that comes under the back end part of a web development . Although some of you might will be more interested to learn the back end part first as its more interesting , challenging , puzzling and try to directly learn it but it’s considered better to spend at least 2 months on front-end part before you jump on to the back-end part .
To get started with front end you have to learn HTML 5 , CSS 3 and its frameworks (a small bunch of codes written already to make large code a bit easier ) like Bootstrap (most popular ) , Core JavaScript and Client side Java script ( mainly ) .
HTML 5 is the latest version of HTML ( Hyper Text Markup Language ) which you should start getting familiar with than anything else at the beginning of your journey . It’s a scripting language that means that it does not do any of the coding like stuffs for you , rather it’s used to build up the structure of your webpage . In simple words , whatever content you are able to see in the webpage , it’s all inside the HTML file . It’s the basic requirement of any working webpage , hence I started with it as well . I completed it within 3-4 days . I must say that while it’s one of the easiest language to understand and so many people just neglect it and start with CSS but still you just have to give it a 3-4 days time and learn various things like class Name , Id , span , table , forms , etc. which you can find very clearly explained in w3schools website .
Next thing you should do is to learn CSS 3, i.e, latest version of CSS ( Cascading Style Sheet ), which is also a scripting language .It’s mainly used to style , design the webpage . We just do not want our webpage to contain the information rather we want colors , styles , etc. to be involved with our webpage and hence we use CSS . Just having a theoretical knowledge will do no good in learning of this language rather it’s recommended to apply the things. Spend 7-10 days in learning this language in which you should have at least a very good grip in topics like position , padding , float , color combinations ,etc. Again visiting W3schools website is recommended . Personally speaking , I learned both of these languages from Murach’s HTML , XHTML and CSS book which is quite handy as it covers most of the things that you need to know .
In the next blog , I will tell you about some of the small projects you can start with and also about the basics of JavaScript .
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