As my title says, I am new to web development. After looking around and seeing what is available, I want to aim toward learning full stack development first.
I looked around and it looks like the latest thing being requested are frameworks like MEAN, focusing on JavaScript on both the front and back end. This sounded great to me at first as a place to begin, because I could just focus on learning the one language and work on everythin with it.
I realized shortly later that this isn’t a good mindset for someone who’s learning to code to have. Not only will I need to learn how to code with different languages over time, but there is also the fact that JS will probably run differently on both stacks.
So now what. I still want to aim for Full Stack Development. I still have an interest in sticking with a framework like MEAN and deal with JS. However, I am pretty much brand new to programming. I am feeling like I may be more beneficial to me if I go Front End (html5, css3, js) first, then for my back end starting off with Python, Ruby, or PHP so I can learn how the essentials of programming first with a language that is still used and may be needed along the way, and then go for a stack after I understand how programming actually ...