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While I agree with this, I don’t want to discourage OP. You don’t have to spend 10 years learning the basics before calling yourself a web dev.

Learning web dev(or programming in general) is very much like how babies learn to speak. You don’t have to learn all the alphabets, rules and grammars before you learn to speak. You can still observe what others are doing, copy it, reason about it, draw interesting patterns from it and continue your learnings from there.

Op: So go ahead, jump right in. Open your browser’s javascript console and start playing. Learn React and build small apps. Pick python and build servers. Not everything will intuitively click, but push regardless. You’ll eventually understand everything. After all, the more dots you collect, the more ways you can connect them!





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