Chapter 5
Charting Your Path in Web Development
In This Chapter
Finding out what makes a web development career a good one
Seeing how Utah teaches web development
Finding out how 1990s websites can help you today
Discovering what Lynda.com can do for your career
There are a million ways to become a web developer, and all of them are equally valid; “whatever works” is a maxim of web development, and of much else in life.
However, there’s a curve connecting the ways in which you might become a web developer to how many good or bad things happen in your web development career. More, and more solid, preparation makes more good things more likely to happen. Less, and less solid, preparation makes good things less likely to happen.
This chapter explains how to chart your path in web development — how to get as many different plus points on your side as possible, and how to steer around the areas where you might have a weakness, or at least not have a strength.
Use this chapter to get yourself started, and then watch and learn in your own career. There are many niches of skill, talent, ...
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