How to get started in becoming a good web developer

Oge Obubu
2 min readNov 7, 2020

This is my first write up regarding web development and I believe this topic is worth starting from to help “newbies” in web development or I would rather say to help “beginners” as the case may be.

Now, the question, “what do you think a developer must possess to be a good developer?” Here are my few tips:

  1. Learn the Basics:

Learning the basics of web developing is essential. The basics such as Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) must be learnt. There are different opinions out there that say, “Learn JavaScript first” or “Go for Python”, the truth is people will surely have opinion it then depends on what can work for you.

Like I have rightly said above learning HTML and CSS and learning them well will do a lot of good to you as you walk in the path of becoming a good developer. HTML is the foundation of web building especially frontend development. Talk about Vanilla JavaScript you need HTML, talk about React.js you need HTML even template in Node.js requires little knowledge of HTML.

After HTML, you learn CSS language is used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript. Where programming starts from is with CSS. Some might see CSS as simple and others might see it as difficult depending on the knowledge the other has.

The next, JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that conforms to the ECMAScript specification. JavaScript is high-level, often just-in-time compiled, and multi-paradigm. It has curly-bracket syntax, dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation, and first-class functions.

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the nuts and bolts of all website development that you’ll work with daily if you decide to build websites for a living.

I will stop here for today and pretty soon I will continue from here.

Thanks for reading!

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Oge Obubu

Front-end junior developer who is passionate about creating something new.