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What's the goal of the course? A lot of the changes I've seen (from a distance) in the last few years are about how to better scale front-end development, whic
by Eridrus 8y ago
What's the goal of the course?
A lot of the changes I've seen (from a distance) in the last few years are about how to better scale front-end development, which isn't really necessary for people who don't plan to be developers.
Serverless is interesting in that it lets you get a real application running with less ops knowledge, but are the people taking this course interested in making applications, or do they want the skills to make some changes to a wordpress blog? The combination with single page applications can remove the need to learn a server-side templating system, but with the downside that you need to know more JS than a simple PHP page.
One thing that HN doesn't talk about, but could be useful for non-technical folks is low-code frameworks for building typical business apps.
- joshinma 8y agoAll great answers, thank you. My goal isn't to have them become cracker-jack developers, but rather to get a good enough sense of how web applications work that they have a better idea of what developers do and how to talk with them. In the past I've typically had them complete simple exercises—with lots and lots of scaffolding—using different technologies in the stack.