What Is Web Development?

Coding for beginners | March 1, 2021

Web development is about creating anything you can access online, from simple web pages to complex web products and mobile applications.

Learn how to code a website

Coding a website is one of the best places to start your coding journey. Through the CodeSpace Software Development program, you can learn to code your own website (and more!) and become a software developer in as little as six months.

Coding is the language of computers

Learning to code is like learning a language like Spanish or Dutch, except you’re learning the languages of computers.

When you learn to code in one language, like JavaScript or PHP to build a website, you can easily transfer what you have learned into learning other languages such as Python or C#. The fundamentals are all the same, you just have to learn a new syntax each time.

So what does it mean to code a website? Coding is all about communication. You are taking information and manipulating it so that a computer can understand it and perform instructions for you quickly and repeatedly. Coding helps process information and display it in meaningful ways. When you code a website, you speak to the computer in languages it understands. These languages convert your human thoughts into 1s and 0s, or machine code, so a computer can run these coded instructions and create what you have envisioned.

Tech stacks and types of developers

When building most technical applications, you must consider the tech stack you are working in. A tech stack is a grouping of languages that work well together to create what a user sees on the frontend or what is happening on the server on the backend.

As a web developer, you can specialise in frontend development and become an expert in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to present interactive, well-designed content to the user. Alternatively, you can specialise in backend development to manage the server side of applications where the code is hosted and data is stored. Backend developers are experts in PHP or Python and database querying languages like MySQL. If you can do it all, you are considered a fullstack developer.

Creating a code portfolio

A big part of web development is effectively communicating ideas using text and visuals. As part of our Software Development program, you’ll create a digital resumé to visually showcase all the projects you build for your code portfolio. Once you graduate, you can use this portfolio of code to display your skills to prospective employers.

Here are some examples of resumes that our graduates have built: