Most people looking to get into web development usually start off with front-end (HTML, CSS and JavaScript), at least that’s what I’d advise if you are considering it. The problem is people learning front-end often don’t get enough experience interacting with APIs and doing things like saving and handling data, which is actually a huge part of the job.

For example if you want to build a website that displays people from different countries. On the website, you want to have a form for people to join and you want to display a list of all the people that have already joined. Your first thought is you need a database to store the people’s details and countries. But how do you then link this database to your website? After some googling, you find out that you need to build an API that serves as a middleman between your database and your front-end code. To build an API, you now have to learn a back-end language. You know you want to eventually learn these things but you don’t think you are ready yet. What do you do?