Study Plan to become a Web application developer
By: Wang Fan Xu
Tags: Developer, Programming Languages, Study, Web Development, Software Development

Study Plan to become a Web application developer

A few months ago, I am searching for online courses to prepare for my interviews and also sharpen my web development skills. Now I am glad to share my study experience with you to become a good web developer with all essential skills. For the beginners, I found it good to learn by following: Data Structure & Algorithm -> HTML,CSS &Javascript ->Backend language ->Database -> Linux Operating system. All the below courses are from Udemy and youtube, I suggest to follow the below sequence to learn.

Data Structure and Algorithm

Course to take: Master the Coding Interview: Data Structures + Algorithms

Here come the fundamentals of every programming language. I highly suggest to take this course as fundamentals and try your best to understand every topic in this course. Especially if you have a goal to join a company like Google, Facebook, etc, eventually you will be asked questions regarding Bio O, Data Structures, and Algorithms. More importantly, it will also give you an idea of how to write clean& good code. Base on my experience, it is good to take this course with one programming language and learn it together.

Web development structure

course to take: The Web Developer Bootcamp 2020

I found this course is a very good course to give you the overall idea of web development. It will teach you the web development Structure, HTML CSS, javascript, database, and server. With this course, web development will no longer be a mystery. Additionally, the team has recently have updated this course with 500+ videos.

Server Side Language: PHP

Youtube course: TraversyPHP Front To Back [Part 1] - Series Introduction

By completing the above courses, now we have the idea of the web frontend, it's time to learn one backend language which I suggest to learn PHP.

why PHP? PHP is one of the most popular server-side language used in web development, 80% of the web are developed base on PHP.

PHP is easy to learn, and fast to develop and deploy a web application. So, it is always good to know about PHP for every web developer. With the recent update, PHP has become more powerful. So, take one of the PHP course as your first server-side language.

Database: MySQL

Course to take: The Ultimate MySQL Bootcamp: Go from SQL Beginner to Expert

Every full-stack/backend developer needs to know how to use the database. One of the wide popular used databases is MySQL. This course gets you going from the basics of MySQL to the intermediate level.

Linux operating system

Course to take :Linux Mastery: Master the Linux Command Line in 11.5 Hours

Most of the applications are host on a Linux system, to learn how to use Linux command, set crontab auto task should be essential skills for every developer. I suggest taking this course to become a master of the Linux system. Once you completed the above courses, we have all the essential skills to become a web developer.

Conclusion:

All the above courses should help you to build a strong foundation with all the essential skills to become a web developer. I will start to share more details for every course in my next few blogs, do please follow me if you found this study guide is useful. Thanks for the reading, have a good day.