Programming will be in everything. Don’t just learning programming. Learn an industry, something you like, and then learn the programming required for that. (Grandpa Wilde)
Those words from my Grandpa were really true in 1986, and are even truer today. But I would suggest these days you have to combine programming with one of a few other skill-based specializations that go with a particular industry and career.
I’ve always hated the made-up term software engineering because it feels like it is reaching, particularly for web development (and Linus agrees). But for these skills combinations it makes sense. You are engineering solutions no matter what industry you choose.
Programming + Web Protocols is a tough category because it is required for many of the others, but technically it can be a specialization unto itself. This is not “Fullstack Developer” stuff, it’s far more than that. It’s learning to communicate with and create the core underlying protocols upon which web applications are built.
⚠️ Don’t get left just making CRUD. Web development, for the most part, is creating, replacing, updating, and deleting data. It’s light-weight software development to create interfaces into the core systems and data stores. It’s honest work, just not something you build a solid, sustainable career on.
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