Today’s Goal:
- Learn about pursuing web design (and related fields) in college and/or as a career
Today’s featured website:
- http://www.bestprogramminglanguagefor.me– Choose a language based upon what you want to make
Questions to explore
- In groups of 2 at your tables, please find answers to the following questions:
- What is a web developer? What is a web designer? What is a graphic designer?
- What is a front end developer? What is a back end developer?
- What is a full stack developer?
- What is user design (or UX/UI or user experience design)?
- What could you study in college to prepare for one of these positions?
- What do web developers study in college? What about graphic designers?
- How else could you become a web designer or developer if you don’t do it in college?
- For everyone: what do you prefer? Why? Who is potentially interested in studying these subject areas in college? What about design or development of games or apps?
Stack Overflow 2018 Developer Survey
- Stack Overflow is an online community of web developers who share code and help each other out by posting questions and answers. They do a developer survey every year and thousands of people from their community provide responses from all over the world.
- Let’s find out where developers live, how they learned how to code/program, how much they make, how they like their jobs, etc. Survey results here.
- Key things to look for:
- What percentage of developers are self-taught?
- What did developers study in college?
- How much do developers and designers get paid?
- What are the top programming languages?
Professional Tips for You
- Tips for creating a portfolio and a resume
- Details on choosing a career path
- Skills you’ve learned in this class that you can add to a resume or LinkedIn profile: WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and graphic design
- For fun: design games (curated by Jackrabbit)! I got a perfect score on this one; can you??