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This is part of my fullstack developer series, where you’ll go from never having written a line of code to deploying your first fullstack web application to the internet. Click this link to get an overview of what this series is all about.

Please tag me on Twitter @zg_dev and share this series with #100DaysOfCode!

Useful series links

• Series Table of Contents
• Github Repository — where you’ll find all the code we write in this series
• YouTube Playlist
• Series Overview
• 100 Days of Code Challenge — I highly recommend you take this on while reading this series!
• …

See this lesson on YouTube here

This is part of my fullstack developer series, where you’ll go from never having written a line of code to deploying your first fullstack web application to the internet. Click this link to get an overview of what this series is all about.

Please tag me on Twitter @zg_dev and share this series with #100DaysOfCode!

Useful series links

• Series Table of Contents
• Github Repository — where you’ll find all the code we write in this series
• YouTube Playlist
• Series Overview
• 100 Days of Code Challenge — I highly recommend you take this on while reading this series!
• …

This is part of my full-stack developer series, where you’ll go from never having written a line of code to deploying your first full-stack web application to the internet. Click this link to get an overview of what this series is all about.

Please share this series with the hashtag #fullstackroadmap and help me spread the word!

Useful series links

• Series Table of Contents
• Github Repository — where you’ll find all the code we write in this series
• YouTube Playlist
• Series Overview
• 100 Days of Code Challenge — I highly recommend you take this on while reading this series!
• My CodeWars Profile —…

Here is the YouTube version of this lesson.

This is part of my fullstack developer series, where you’ll go from never having written a line of code to deploying your first fullstack web application to the internet. Click this link to get an overview of what this series is all about.

Please share this series with the hashtag #fullstackroadmap and help me spread the word!

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Hold yourself accountable with 100 days of code

Today marks the first lesson where we actually start writing some real code. Because of this, I encourage you to take the 100 days of…

Here is the YouTube version of this lesson.

This is part of my fullstack developer series, where you’ll go from never having written a line of code to deploying your first fullstack web application to the internet. Click this link to get an overview of what this series is all about.

Please share this series with the hashtag #fullstackroadmap and help me spread the word!

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Unlike many of the posts I write, this one is going to be in the form of a detailed Q&A session. …

This is part of my fullstack developer series, where you’ll go from never having written a line of code to deploying your first fullstack web application to the internet. Click this link to get an overview of what this series is all about.

Please share this series with the hashtag #fullstackroadmap and help me spread the word!

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Where do we start?

If you’re reading this, you’ve most likely never written a line of code in your life, but want to learn. There are about a hundred different ways that we could get you on your feet…

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When searching for a career path or even trying to figure out what bootcamp to go to or what online course to take, knowing the differences between front, back, and full-stack development is a big piece to the puzzle.

In this post, I’m going to show you specific examples of each and attempt to explain why this topic is so confusing to most people.

Zoom wayyyy out

First, let’s get clear on what type of software engineering we are talking about here. When someone says any of these terms, they are talking specifically about web developers.

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So you’re learning to code, but there are so many choices as to where you are actually writing that code. To the beginner, this topic may sound intimidating, so let’s start by looking at the entire landscape of code editors.

What are the possibilities here?

While others may disagree with this classification, here are four places that you might write code in order of least to most features.

1. OS-based text editor (Microsoft has Notepad, Mac has TextEdit)
2. Terminal based text editor (Vim, Emacs, Nano)
3. Code Editors (Visual Studio Code, Atom, Sublime Text)
4. Integrated Development Environments, or “IDEs” (Visual Studio, PyCharm, Eclipse, NetBeans)

While you may…