# Points to remember before starting your coding journey

Okay , You got the feeling to code . You want to start your coding journey as a total beginner with no prior experience.

# Where to start ?

There are tons of free resources to begin , but don't get overwhelmed. As the saying says , Every expert was a beginner once , Don't get intimidated by thinking you are far behind. Consistence is the key , **learn! learn! learn all time** . You will be shocked to know your progress within few weeks.


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Start simple.

There are tons of things in Programming , Know what you want to do.

I will start with Web-Development , in this blog.
 
# What is web development ?

In short , Web development is building web pages , you are reading this on one.

There are two things to consider.

***Front-end***
 involves **Design** and things, a user will see when they open the browser.

***Back-end***
 involves mainly handling **servers and databases**.


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You can imagine Your school or college or your organization , sends you a survey form or a form for filling up your basic details.

When you open the link , You see empty boxes for you to fill the details.

Now , you are typing in the fields and submit it and then the data goes to the people who sent it.

Boom 💥💥💥 You just witnessed both frontend and backend.

The page you entered is mainly designed by the frontend , arranging the boxes one by one , labelling them with a name next to it.

As soon as you submit , the frontend developer takes the details from those boxes , frames it in a way the server understands and submits it to the database through the server.

The backend developer takes the data which the frontend developer sent .
The data sent is now taken to the database by the backend developer and post in the database.

The same way , the backend developer takes data from the database and shows it to the one seeking it.

# What is a database?
Databases are nothing but collection of data , think of it as **grocery list** along with the quantity . 
Databases are not just that, but just to get the idea to begin , Databases can be thought as **excel spreadsheets** , where we can add as many lists , values , etc and most importantly , instead of searching each and everything , databases has their own way to get the result with a query (Query is nothing but a code).

As simple as that .

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Frontend - is what you see , Backend - is what happens behind.

Okay now , Full stack developer is one who works both in frontend and backend.

As the name sounds , full stack developer can independently complete a project .

Okay , now you want to start one of the three . The steps are almost the same for everything .

Knowing what happens in both ends , is healthy , but being a frontend developer do not necessarily know any server side programming and database queries and vice versa.

Whatever you choose , start with HTML .

# HTML

[W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/) was the first resource I used to begin by web development journey.

Make your foundations strong , focus on the basics .

Practice in real time . Do projects with pure HTML.

Till date, there are many websites which only use HTML as their main code.

Start CSS

# CSS

[W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/) Again w3schools is very good in starting your CSS journey,
There are many challenges online you can do a lot , and make your foundations in CSS very strong. 
Freecodecamp responsive design is one of many which I recommend.
Play along , There are many code editors online - just start designing a simple div element.

Start Javascript.

# Javascript

Javascript is phenomenal , master it .
There are many frameworks right now which has the base in javascript.
So focus on it , Get familiar with all the basic things.

HTML , CSS and Javascript  - there are tons of projects which can be done and this almost is a frontend developer.

Taking backend ,

There are many server side languages, many have their base in** javascript , java , c# , php etc **, Choose the one which is comfortable and learn it . The same goes for databases .


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Have a record of all of your projects .
Build something regularly and code regularly .

These are few of the steps which can be used for starting. I will elaborate more in my upcoming blogs . Until then , Peace !