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15 Tips For Someone New To Web Development

Will Johnson on February 24, 2020

On Twitter we asked the egghead community for advice for new developers: // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1...
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Pachi 🥑

Great advice!!!

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Lena Runner

After several years I get a feedback that my most useful advice was directing a person towards tools I personally use and like. Depending on a specific situation, I often talked with them about how just simple paper calendars, quick retrospectives or boards like kanbantool.com/kanban-guide/person... may be used to support you, being a newbie in the area. Of course it's not limited to people starting web development route but I think it may really help them. Starting something totally new sometimes makes you forget about some basic things in life ;)

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Nawfal07

Thank you, great advices

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Emmanuel Okiche

Make sure you enjoy solving problems.
Don't get into programming only for the money.
Trust the process.
Expertise takes time.
You'll get there if your persist.

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Will Johnson

Well said Emmanuel Okiche

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Victor Hazbun

I'm a web developer, and I will recommend something else like mobile or IOT or anything else. Because being a good web developer takes too much time, around 5 years or more.

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Sally

But being a good mobile developer doesn't?

"It's hard" isn't a reason not to do something.