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True for the programming part of front end development, not so much for the making things look good part.

• ashtonkem 7y ago
  Having crossed over from a back end developer to a front-end developer at a design shop, it’s not that hard. Nowhere near as hard as learning to program the very first time. I think that a lot of the discussed differences between different portions of the “stack” is actually the narcissism of small differences [0]; they share more in common than we typically give them credit for. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
• kazinator 7y ago
  To make things look good on the Web, you just find something that you think looks good and steal what it's doing.
  • TeMPOraL 7y ago
    And if you do it repeatedly, then suddenly one day you'll realize you can make good original work. The same is true about learning anything else. Personally, when I've been first starting programming, I learned a lot of useful programming techniques by stealing bits and pieces from videogames and demos whose source was available and incorporating them into my own attempts at writing a game engine.