I have years experience in marketing so I'm looking to get a Web Development certificate to make me competitive. I don't know anything about Web Development/Coding, so is this route best? Is Web Development very hard?

... and we were in the kids section. Asian father and son sittin off on their laptops, kid was about 7 or 8 years old. We were walking past and glanced over at the kid's laptop...


... He was taking an HTML coding test.

If he was older than 8 I would be surprised.

He's gonna be your boss in a few years.

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It's hard if you don't follow logic or have a hard time committing structural elements or concepts i.e. syntax to memory. I'd say in general that if language learning is difficult or not interesting to you than web development would probably be more of a challenge.

I say that because you will be doing a lot of programming/scipting and will need to know several languages. Javascript for sure, some back end language like PHP, and likely some degree of SQL. In my experience I've found it somewhat similar to learning spoken languages.

you want to be able to create a marketing plan, AND build-out all of the web properties?

or do you simply want to say you know how to build out web properties, for the advantage at a company?

are you employed now?

but i too am struggling to see how this would be beneficial in marketing other than to add more responsibility with no noticeable pay bump

>I don't know anything about Web Development/Coding

You should try coding some stuff to see if you like it. Start with basic HTML/CSS/Javascript. I code for fun and have been doing so since I was 12, so it's fairly easy to pick up new programming languages/concepts because it's enjoyable to me.

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i find its easier for people to learn a bit of both, but focus on one.

Get a handle on wordpress, cop a theme/plugin bundle or two(WooThemes, WPDEV, etc) and enough HTML 5, CSS, and PHP to competently customize them and you could probably do fairly well.

so many roles on a team

with marketing you could also roll that into analytics, research, branding, project managment

development is not the end all be all in a team effort

anywhere worth working for won't care about a certificate. you'll have to be knowledgeable enough about coding to sound competent in an interview. and that just takes experience.

there's an unlimited amount of training/practice material online to learn the basics.

but just to be realistic about it, if you're looking to be a legit full-time web developer, it's probably gonna take you months of dedicated practice to even get to a intro/intern-level dev gig.

do "web development certificates" even exist?
sound like some shit you'd hear on a "fresher" forum

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