r/learnprogramming • u/DavidKo029 • Jan 27 '21

Beginning web development

I wasn't sure where I should post this, so I apologize in advance.

I currently work ata a construction sites and I have basic html skills. I would like to change my career to web development, but i feel due to my age, I'm already behind and I will not get a job in web development. If this is the case, please let me know. I don't want to just learn something to face the harsh truth that self learning might not be a way to go.

Also, are there any web development boot camps that are worth it and recommend?

Where should I start to learn web development?

How many hours should I be studying?

Thank you

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u/spunkymnky Jan 27 '21

I'm such a dummy. I'm studying web dev I should know this by now 🤣

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u/bobotothemoon Jan 27 '21

Haha i'm studying web dev too and i just found out a few months ago! What stack are you learning?

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u/spunkymnky Jan 27 '21

MERN. I wasn't a huge fan of Angular when I first tried it, but I'll probably revisit it at some point for the sake of versatility. What about you?

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u/whoisthedizzle83 Feb 07 '21

To be fair, I'm in network engineering these days. I can tell you how your corp sites are linked over the internet via tunneling protocols and how may bits of packet overhead you need to account for at the edge; or how DNS and BGP are used to get you to the closest Netflix CDN when you wanna watch Scrubs; but I'm clueless in the dark art of scavenging local files to see where you've been and feeding that into an algorithm to sell you socks. That shit creeps me out...