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If you are just starting out, do the very basics. Write your HTML and CSS and JavaScript by hand, because you will want to know what your tools are doing, and
by danielweber 13y ago
If you are just starting out, do the very basics. Write your HTML and CSS and JavaScript by hand, because you will want to know what your tools are doing, and when its time to switch to a new tool you will know what it's doing, too.
But be aware that most employers will demand, sensibly or not, that you know whatever the latest fashionable toolkit is. Even if you could learn it in 3 days, they'll want you to have already learned it.
- nekopa 13y agoI am not quite 'just starting out' more like 're-starting out' I liked to think of myself as a lapsed programmer. I am also not looking for an employer (I just got lucky in that I don't need to work for someone ever again) But what I do like is your idea of knowing what a new tool is doing. My big reason from learning everything again from scratch is that I've found that 30 years ago, I knew how to make things happen in assembly language. 20 years ago I switched to high level languages. And somehow, about 15 years ago I became a cargo-cult programmer. So in a way I'm trying to regain my roots, but I also am doing it with an eye on being super productive in the future.