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I wonder how much of those entering The Web Field have any formal education on CS and CS history, and to what extent most of them know the tools at their hand (
by gkya 10y ago
I wonder how much of those entering The Web Field have any formal education on CS and CS history, and to what extent most of them know the tools at their hand (HTML, JS, CSS, Standards, HTTP(S), browsers, other programming tools, etc). It seems to me that most of the professionals in the sector are actually paid amateurs with shallow knowledge of their own fields. This leads to reinvention of tools for that are at most on par with the existing tool chain.
- blauditore 10y agoI have a similar impression; and based on the people I've met, it's somewhat accurate. People with higher education in CS I know tend to go more towards full stack or back end work, while web front end devs often are career changers. The entry barrier for web technologies is just rather low. This is probably the main reason for Node's huge growth in the past years: It's just the path of least resistance to get into back end development.
- jinglebells 10y ago"The Web Field" is a pretty big group but if you mean "Front end web" then people with a background in graphic design or content creation (writing/video) are probably not going to have much formal CS history. There _are_ people who are good at both visual design and computer science, but not as many as designers who learned enough to code what they needed to.