Becoming a Web Developer

1. Becoming a Web Developer The Web Way from Start to Finish @joshsimmons community manager @oreillymedia @oscon @fluentconf Italio Dalla Spazio by NASA CC-BY-NC 2.0
2. Web Technology What is the web platform? HTML, CSS, JavaScript Stacks Servers
3. Web Thinking Standards Open Source Web Services (API’s, Mashups, and standing on the shoulders of giants) The Uncertain Web
4. Tools and Process Editors Version Control Compilers and the Build Process Project Management Distributed Development
5. The Web in Practice I <3 LAMP Frameworks and CMS Progressive Enhancement Accessibility Security SEO and Sharability Intellectual Property
6. Stacks JavaScript PHP Python Ruby Perl Go
7. Gotchas Rise of the Expert Beginner JavaScript Required Photoshop First Bloat Documentation Input Sanitization Law of Leaky Abstractions
8. The Law of Leaky Abstractions “[T]he abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning… [E]ven as we have higher and higher level programming tools with better and better abstractions, becoming a proficient programmer is getting harder and harder.” - Joel Spolsky
9. What Next?
10. Follow the Web’s Best
11. Eric Meyer at Fluent 2015 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
12. Rachel Nabors at Beyond Tellerand by Marcel Böttcher CC-BY 2.0
13. Jakob Nielsen by Norman Nielsen Group, All Rights Reserved
14. Jen Simmons at An Event Apart by Jeffrey Zeldman CC-BY 2.0
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17. Estelle Weyl at Fluent 2015 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
18. Luke Wroblewski at POL*2011 by Olavstoppen Stavanger CC-BY 2.0
19. Join the Community WIMPgives 2014 by Arken Studios, All Rights Reserved
20. Give Back WIMPgives 2014 by Arken Studios, All Rights Reserved
21. Get to Work OSCON 2014 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
22. Never Stop Learning OSCON 2014 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
23. “With the rise of native apps and the Internet of Things (IoT), you might think we’re leaving the web behind. We’re not.” — Simon. St Laurent
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Editor's Notes

hello! I am…
today we’re covering:
web tech: core and adjacent technologies
web thinking: the grain of the web (thx Frank Chimero)
tools and process
practical considerations
“stacks”
gotchas
next steps
housekeeping
slides are NOT that interesting, based roughly on outline of the book I’m writing for O’Reilly, but there ARE speaker notes and the slide deck will be posted to Slideshare as well as Internet Archive (along with audio and video)
note taking encouraged
some may be basic if you’ve been in the industry, but unlike other web dev intros I include a bit of philosophy and history…. basically, vote with your feet!
feel free to raise your hand for questions, I *may* wait until the end of the slide, but I’ll take as many questions as I can
of course, I work for O’Reilly, which means there’s a free ebook (I’ve picked 12 relevant titles) waiting for you at the end of the talk, as well as discounts to Fluent and OSCON
ready?
What is the web platform?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
separation of concerns
standards not monoliths
(but really only rely on HTTP and HTML)
Stacks
sets of tools and server side languages, we’ll go over these later
Servers
name servers (domains come from registrars)
mail
databases
web
Standards
arbiters between browsers, vendors, and developers
HTML: W3C and WHATWG
CSS: W3C
JavaScript: Ecma International
Open Source
Linux, Apache, and much much more
don’t forget this used to be radical
Web Services
think web 2.0, AJAX, and Google Maps
increasing complexity!
API’s out there for doing natural language parsing, guessing a person’s location based on IP address,
The Uncertain Web
browsers, devices (phones, cars, watches, TV’s, virtual reality), humans and robots
NPR’s COPE!
Editors
from Notepad to Sublime to Eclipse
Version Control
Git, mostly
Compilers
not common in web development
but cross compilers are becoming more common
as are automated build processes
Project Management
pick a tool and stick to it
iterative vs waterfall methodologies (false dichotomy, BTW)
Distributed Development
ad-hoc teams and remote working
communication
testing
LAMP’s ubiquity (but really less LAMP these days, Nginx, Postgres)
Frameworks and CMS are what most development happens with, very little ground-up, unless you’re building one-off tools (omg WordPress and Durpal)
*complexity/decoupling/low lvl vs high lvl etc
last one, then on to Join the Community
Give Back
WIMPgives
open source
standards
Get to Work
supply / demand
freelance, agency, startups, SMB, enterprise
specialization
high level engineering and architecture
web operations and devops
user experience design and information architecture
data science
management
marketing
Never Stop Learning
books, blogs, and videos
courses and bootcamps
community and corporate conferences, regional and national
when not to use the web?
I like to think of native as the testing ground for what gets rolled into the web
web icons can be on mobile screens
web can use microphone and webcam
web can use local storage
don’t use the web when: the features you need are cutting edge and not well supported or they’re slow

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