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As a recent novice-to-employed developer myself, I would caution against jumping into the rails stack. This is not a knock on rails, however. Where I live (Mich
by mlangdon 13y ago
As a recent novice-to-employed developer myself, I would caution against jumping into the rails stack. This is not a knock on rails, however. Where I live (Michigan, US) there are plenty of web dev job openings at any given time. But about 50% are C# MVC or ASP.net, another 25% are PHP drupal or wordpress and then come Django, Rails and the rare node job.
My point is if "employable" is the goal, check out the jobs listed on stackoverflow and indeed, etc., in your area before picking a learning plan.
(Incidentally, I learned Java/Android and Python and count myself very lucky to be employed in non-web dev.)
- enraged_camel 13y ago>>As a recent novice-to-employed developer myself, I would caution against jumping into the rails stack. This is not a knock on rails, however. Where I live (Michigan, US) there are plenty of web dev job openings at any given time. But about 50% are C# MVC or ASP.net, another 25% are PHP drupal or wordpress and then come Django, Rails and the rare node job. As a novice who is learning web programming, I find this... odd. No JavaScript/Jquery? Is that not by far the most commonly used language/framework on the web? For server-side, I can understand PHP, Rails and ASP.NET but I would expect JavaScript to dominate the front-end.
- saraid216 13y agoClient-side JS/jQuery is very nearly assumed to be a requirement for all web developer jobs, regardless of server-side language.
- mlangdon 13y agoYou are absolutely correct. You will need JS and JQuery on the front end. I was really only talking about the back end, though I was not clear about that.