Web Development Career Master Plan

4

Managing, Securing, and Working with Code

Over the last two chapters, we’ve spent a fair amount of time looking at actual code and getting you acclimated to the nuts and bolts, so to speak, of web development. It should be obvious that most of your time will likely be spent “twiddling bits,” as we software nerds like to say!

But you’ve also seen that there is a lot more to it than just writing code. In this chapter, we’ll look at a few more of those “not writing code” things, including the idea of source control (how you keep track of the changes to your code), operating systems (Linux in particular), integrated development environments (IDEs) (tools that help you write code without leaving one consolidated application), security, and even ...