Web Dev Bird's-Eye: A Bird's-eye View of Web Development to Help Novice Web Developers to Speed Up Learning.
This tutorial is a work in progress. See the section "I Need Help".
This tutorial is written with the true novice web developers in mind: if you already have other programming experience but web development is a brand new thing, this tutorial is for you.
Why true novice web developers? Because I am one of them. I had desktop application software development experience but zero experience of web development. When I started to learn it, I felt a lot of pain. I therefore decided to share my thoughts about what I believe is helpful for any other developers like me to overcome the initial learning stope. In other words, I believe what I have listed in this tutorial are those first and fundamental things every novice developer should learn in order to speed up their later learning.
This is a tutorial that shows you the web development technologies and how they are related with each other. It looks at them from a historical viewpoint so you will learn how they evolved and why they are what they are now.
Although I may dive into the technical details whenever necessary, the tutorial does NOT intend to teach you how to use a particular technology. For example, you won't see any detailed explanation of what an HTML tag is or how to define a JavaScript function. There are many other tutorials for those purposes.
The point is: being a novice web developer, you don't know a lot of things. Finding out those unknowns can be a real pain. This tutorial is trying to show you what you don't know so those "unknowns" will become "knowns". It's your next task to dive into the details.
This also explains why I call this tutorial a "bird's-eye" one: a bird's-eye view won't give you a lot of details, but allows you to see the big picture.
Being a true novice web developer, I have the advantage of knowing what can be the pain for others like me. Meanwhile, that's also a huge disadvantage: I don't know a lot of things about web development and its history. Although I will do my best homework, I will surely also make mistakes. If you find mistakes, have suggestions, or happen to know some helpful references, feel free to open an issue in this repository or shoot me an email.
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Tutorial.mdis the main content of the tutorial.Tools.mdis a collection of tools or libraries for web development.