How good a match is Web Development and Online Learning?

What’s the Connection between Online Learning and Web Development?

It’s really worth noticing how are you polishing your web development skills if you are a programmer. Whoever has written a code in his life knows that you do not stop learning in programming. There are so many CMSs and the variation that they provide makes you to get familiar with at least two to begin with. But the story does not stop at Content Managing System. The number of programming languages and their frameworks, not to talk about their tools and libraries have put a real strain on programmers to up their game, and acquire all the latest tricks and trade through online learning to actually stay in the game.

What to use for Online Learning?

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Nowadays, with platforms like YouTube for online learning; a programmer can find all about his coding with video presentations by other programmers. Livecoding.tv is another example for learning online; the only difference being that Livecoding.tv is particularly made for programmers. They can talk and coordinate with other programmers and learn online by watching live streams.

Programmers nowadays really focus on online learning. Search engines help in this process of online learning but as psychologists claim, that human mind better receives information resented in pictures and audio than reading complex and often very long texts. This has provided programmers to really focus on the visual and interactive part of the online learning. Web development tools are also readily explained with often links provided for where to acquire them.

There are also other sites that provide courses in web development. This online learning method is also utilized and benefited from. Programmers can find about web development through taking up these courses specific for the web development. Nowadays one can really sustain in a career of programming. This has become the pinnacle for staying professionally competitive in web development.

There are also many other tools for online learning, but most importantly the gist of all of the matter is to continue striving to learn through various opportunities that are available to us online. As a programmer and that too in web development where there are drastic changes almost every day, the programming community cannot stop looking for new information and methods and tricks and tools, to remain competitive and ahead of their industry. As a wise man once said, “learning is constant, online learning is endless”.

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We hope this brings a nice reminder for all web development gurus and those who undermine the power of online learning.

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I, Dr. Michael J. Garbade is the co-founder of the Education Ecosystem (aka LiveEdu), ex-Amazon, GE, Rebate Networks, Y-combinator. Python, Django, and DevOps Engineer. Serial Entrepreneur. Experienced in raising venture funding. I speak English and German as mother tongues. I have a Masters in Business Administration and Physics, and a Ph.D. in Venture Capital Financing. Currently, I am the Project Lead on the community project -Nationalcoronalvirus Hotline I write subject matter expert technical and business articles in leading blogs like Opensource.com, Dzone.com, Cybrary, Businessinsider, Entrepreneur.com, TechinAsia, Coindesk, and Cointelegraph. I am a frequent speaker and panelist at tech and blockchain conferences around the globe. I serve as a start-up mentor at Axel Springer Accelerator, NY Edtech Accelerator, Seedstars, and Learnlaunch Accelerator. I love hackathons and often serve as a technical judge on hackathon panels.