[draker]

I have been teaching myself programming and feel front end is really the only way in without formal schooling or extensive self study. "Full stack" was the most popular in the survery and I feel most code camps teach "full stack light"; enough to put up a site using RoR or Node back end/JS front end framework.

I would love to get a job doing backend development and have worked through some CS moocs and I just feel like there are so many things I don't sufficiently understand to even be considered for a backend position. I could probably handle a "full stack light" position, but get overwhelmed when I try to really understand everything going on instead of just accepting "use this gem".