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by crunchlibrarian 2966 days ago
Really? I haven't done web dev in many years but these were all skills I had mastered before even attempting to define what type of development I wanted to do.

If web developers don't already all know this then what knowledge do they have nowadays? Just intimate trivia details of whatever framework/platform is hip this month? Is that all they work on?
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chamilto 2966 days ago
> If web developers don't already all know this then what knowledge do they have nowadays?

Read the article's title. This article is clearly aimed at people who are starting to learn web development. It is not aimed at experienced web developers.

> ...these were all skills I had mastered before even attempting to define what type of development I wanted to do

Many people learn how to program by working on projects they want to work on, and a lot of people want to build web applications.

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ghostbrainalpha 2966 days ago
Ya... I don't get this article. I think the skills are good, but they aren't going to make you stand out.

If you don't know DNS, how did you get a website in the first place to start working on.

If you know how to code, you probably know how to get your changes onto the website with GIT.

And if you have made a website before you probably know how to use Chrome Dev or Firebug.

All this stuff except the HTTP, and Network Debugging would be covered in the first two weeks of any coding bootcamp.

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