To Code or Not To Code?: 10 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Becoming a Web Developer

The past 10 years has seen the career of web development explode in popularity, and the draw to learn the needed technical skills has grown right along with it. Not surprisingly, though, even just knowing where to start learning can be intimidating and overwhelming, and that’s just the technical stuff!

If you’re just starting to get curious about web development, and aren’t sure if you’d even enjoy doing it, then you’ve come to the right place. If you want to know what things besides writing code come with the territory of being a developer, this short (but thorough) e-book will help you start answering those questions for yourself. In just 10 brief chapters, we’ll cover things like:

• What kinds of thought processes are involved
• Some non-tech skills that are helpful to have
• Thinking like a user, not a developer
• Some common challenges you might face
• A few resources to get you going if you’re still excited!

Keep in mind that the title is not “10 Questions You Have to Answer ‘Yes’ to In Order to Be Good at Web Development”. This is not a pass/fail test, but rather a tool designed to give you a more realistic idea of what it’s really like to be a web developer. There actually is a lot more involved than just writing code, and a lot of times that’s what causes people to move onto something else. And that is totally fine; few things are more depressing than doing a job you hate!