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Every decision that will require significant time of your life should be justified.

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And in this video, we're going to talk about the career of a web developer.

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Now I'm going to be talking about three things specifically, and this is a bit of a unique section,

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unlike all the other ones where we just code along and learn new skills.

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I want to talk about three things in this video.

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One is why would you even want to be a developer?

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And I know you're taking the course.

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I know you're committed, but I want to talk to you about why it is such a good decision to become a

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developer and some of the freedom that it allows in your life.

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The second is we're going to talk about which tools you should learn to be a successful developer.

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And then finally, the third, we're going to talk about what career options there are out there currently.

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So let's tackle the first one why you would want to be a developer.

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Now, I know a lot of people taking this course are necessarily from the states.

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I'm not, either.

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But I wanted to show you how much in demand a good developer is over here.

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I have some salaries for developers around the states, and you can see that as a frontend developer.

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You have some really, really nice salaries.

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A lot higher than most industries.

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And if you go to Glassdoor, another website, that's really, really good to find out what salaries

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are.

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And you can do location specific to you.

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Hey, there, this is Andre from the future.

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And just a quick heads up with this video.

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There's two changes that I'm going to link to after this lecture with updated statistics.

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Every year, these companies release survey results and insights, and every year some things change.

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So the big changes that you'll see from this video is one that the developer salaries are actually much,

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much higher.

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Then I'm going to show you, which is great news for you.

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And the second thing is that the most used text editor is now vs code instead of sublime text.

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Now I'll link to some of those resources after this lecture, but just a quick heads up.

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All right.

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Let's get back to it and I have salaries in San Francisco, which I know.

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I know they're way too inflated because to live there, it's very expensive.

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But I do want to show you that there's a real value for developers out there.

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I've worked in the industry for many years and finding a job as a developer was quite frankly, very

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easy.

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And I'm not trying to be cocky or overconfident, but it is true.

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Speak to any developer that knows that his or her stuff, and they're able to find jobs quite easily.

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And most times you're interviewing, you're interviewing the employer to see that this is a place that

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you would want to work because you have so many options.

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But.

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You probably already know this, you're taking this course for a reason.

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So let's talk about what you should learn.

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I have for you a couple of surveys here to show you the industry demand.

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The first one is from Jet Brains, a very, very big software company, and it talks about JavaScript

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and which frameworks are the most popular.

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The one we're going to learn in this course is react, and you can see here it is the most popular is

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probably the most well respected.

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And a lot of big companies are using it.

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It was developed at Facebook, and now it is used by Netflix and a ton of other big companies that do

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big things technologically.

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You can also see that what EDS and ID's developers regular to use, and we see that sublime text is

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number one.

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And that is what we are using in this course.

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Let's take a look at Stack Overflow.

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For those that don't know, StackOverflow is probably the best website there is for developers.

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Throughout your career, you'll go on to this website to ask questions and get answers almost daily.

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And one of the things that they do quite often is a survey and a Stack Overflow trends analysis.

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And you can see over here that JavaScript.

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Is trending quite quite high all the way into this year and into next year, it is a very in-demand

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language.

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It can be used on the web, on mobile, on little devices, pretty much anywhere if you encode JavaScript.

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You can code anything electronic at this point in time.

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So that is why we're learning JavaScript.

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Let's look at the next one.

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This one is by GitHub, and you're going to get to know GitHub a lot better.

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In the section that we all have for GitHub and get.

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But I wanted to show you their stats on open source projects, and you'll see that JavaScript is in

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the lead with two point three million projects.

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I love the language, it's a great language to learn as your first one.

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And it can take you really, really far.

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Finally, I made this little diagram for us just so you have a big picture of what we're going to learn

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in this course.

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We're going to learn basic skills like putting a website online and terminal usage, getting GitHub

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and restful web services.

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We're also going to do frontend work, and some of the videos have already gone through this, but we

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learned HTML5 CSS3.

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Now this is kind of interchangeable, but if you want to be a designer, you are more likely going to

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focus on KSAZ responsive design and other tools like Photoshop, Sketch and Illustrator.

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And this is not the course for it.

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We are becoming developers, so we're going to learn JavaScript instead, and JavaScript probably has

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a couple of libraries and frameworks that are really, really popular.

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And the one used most often in mid-2000 was jQuery.

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But that is now very outdated and you'll still see it here and there, but you won't see a lot of the

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Big Top websites using it, so we won't be focusing on that.

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We'll just cover it slightly, but it is not really a an employable scale to learn.

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And then I want to draw your attention to three other libraries and frameworks and what those are tools

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for developers to build websites and web applications, and in this course we're going to learn react

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and you'll get to understand the technology behind a lot more.

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But I chose React because it is currently the most popular way to build web applications.

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And the developer community around it is very, very big.

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Angular JS was very popular a few years ago, but it's kind of starting to die down right now.

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And I personally think there's a bigger future with React.

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And some people may disagree, but.

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Having worked in the industry and seeing people's reaction to different technologies, I really think

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React is going to go really far and you'll hear a ton about it.

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View is the up and comer that it's fairly new, the communities a lot smaller, so there is not as much

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information out there as there is for React.

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But we won't be covering that topic again because we're focusing on the most employable skills.

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That is JavaScript with React.

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Finally, let's talk about career options.

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We're going to talk about the type of work that you will be able to get as a developer and some of the

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confusing job titles that are out there.

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So let's start off with the job titles.

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You might know what web developer is because while you've signed up for this course, that is somebody

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who works on the web, builds websites, builds web applications.

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We also touched on the back end developer, and that is the person that works on the server works with

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some databases, and they aren't too concerned with user facing side of a website or a web app.

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A full stack developer is somebody that can work both on the front end and back end and end this course,

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we're going to learn both front end and back end.

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So you'll be able to call yourself a full stack developer because you'll understand the full picture

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of how these web technologies work.

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We also have mobile developer.

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And the reason that I use React in this course is that even though it is a course geared towards web

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development, using 90 percent of the things you'll learn with React, you'll be able to build an Android

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app and an iOS app very easily.

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And then finally, the two things at the end here we have software developer, and that is somebody

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that is able to build software not necessarily on the web, not necessarily on mobile.

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They're able to use a programming language to build software that is code that can be run anywhere.

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And then finally, software engineers use computer science to solve complex machine problems.

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And that is a very, very broad statement, but it is they're not necessarily good at one coding language,

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they're good at working with machines.

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So I just wanted to throw that out there.

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So you know what the differences are when you are looking for jobs out there?

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Now, let's talk about the fun stuff, the type of work you'll be able to do when you become a web developer.

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And ideally, if you go full force into this course and you really learn the concepts that we cover

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in this course, the type of work that you can do with this.

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So the first one is entrepreneurship, and obviously when you're able to build websites and you're able

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to build landing pages and applications, well, you can start your own business.

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If you have that ambition and idea, then entrepreneurship is definitely a good avenue to go.

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And it is part of the reason that I myself became a developer initially.

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The second one is start ups, if you want to work for young companies that are moving fast and creating

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some really cool technologies or innovations while startups are always looking for developers.

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We also have freelance and that is being able to work on own terms and, you know, using websites like

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Upwork to look for contract jobs and build quick projects for people around the world as they need fit.

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And, you know, running a little business for yourself.

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The next one is working for the big tech companies.

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So that's Facebook, Google, Amazon.

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If you're in the states, if you're somewhere else around the world, you have your own big tech companies

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and they are always a great place to get hired as a developer because they have massive teams.

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They're solving really, really big problems and they need all the developer knowledge that they can

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get.

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It is not for everybody, but they are great places to be surrounded by really, really smart people

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and learn from them.

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We also have ad agency, so ad agencies always have contracts where they have a company that is working

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with them and they usually need some sort of a website or a promo site built for them, and they have

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staff developers that help them work on these different projects with different clients.

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And then finally, I bolded this and that is remote work.

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I know a lot of developers that get into development because of this ideal of being able to work remotely

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and not.

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That is absolutely true.

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If that is the type of life that you want and that is the type of career that you want, working remotely

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is definitely something that a developer is able to do.

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Because let's be honest, to be a developer, all you need is an internet connection, and you don't

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necessarily need to be face to face with a client, with a coworker, with an employer.

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Because, like I said, everything is on a computer.

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So that is not for everybody, but it is an option and it is an attractive option for some.

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So what was the meaning of this video then?

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Well, we went over a few things because I wanted you to understand what we are doing in this course,

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but there's an important point I really want to emphasize that is to keep in mind that when you start

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off something like learning development skills, the first two months will feel like you're climbing

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an insurmountable mountain.

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Every video or course or tutorial or book that you read is going to make you feel like you're the only

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person in the world that doesn't know this stuff.

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But I'm here to tell you to stay strong.

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I went through it.

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Every single developer has gone through it.

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You'll get there and you'll have more and more aha moments as time progresses.

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And we even have a word for this in the industry.

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It's called the imposter syndrome, where you feel like you're the only one who doesn't know this information.

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Rest assured, we all feel this way when we learn something new, why you'll learn is that being a good

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developer isn't necessarily memorizing a whole bunch of documentation or code.

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It's about learning how to solve problems, using all the tools that are available to you, and I'm

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going to leave you with that.

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Being a developer isn't easy.

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You really do need to know your stuff.

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So follow along this course and really engage in all the lessons and all the exercises.

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And if you have questions, ask them because in-demand developers are problem solvers, not just coders.

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Can't wait to see you in the next video.

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Bye bye.