Mobile programming or web programming: Which one should be chosen?

Ngày đăng 29/11/2018

Totally focus on one skill

For a period of two years, you should focus on learning and excelling at a technology: web programming or mobile programming. For web developers focused on mastering one framework, programming specific applications. For mobile just need to be outstanding on one platform: iOS or Android is enough.

If you program the web

Web programming includes: Front-end programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), UI / UX design, Back-end programming, web system deployment. HTML, CSS, JavaScript are languages that are easy to learn at first. There are many open source libraries on the Internet that makes Front-end programming very easy. The wise programmers reduce 60% of their effort by reusing the library. Creating a Front-end JavaScript library that is well compatible with many browsers takes a lot of time and experience. Programmers only use reusable themes, libraries, 5-10 years of programming is only equivalent to one year programmers experience.
UI / UX design experts jobs are different from Front-end developers. Both mobile applications and web applications need UI / UX.
The web Back-end developer needs to master a programming language and a framework. (PHP – Laravel, Phalcon), (Ruby – Rails), (Python-Django, Tornado), (Node.js-Express, Hapi.js, Mean, Sails, Arrowjs.io). In addition, the Back-end programmer must know how to access data to databases: MySQL, Postgresql, MongoDB. Security and web site deployment on the Internet are also required. In general, the work of Back-end programmers requires time to study – practice – accumulate experience for at least 24 months.
The starting salary in Hanoi for web developers is very diverse. With a young programmer who is less than six months experience, has never had a job, participate in the project and receive 500.000/month is not bad at all. But for web developers who have made specific applications, accumulated a lot of skills, good English, mastered the project making process, the salary of 8.000.000/month is actually low.
To master many difficult techniques in web programming will take years, and not everyone can persevere. Learning web programming requires learning more languages. But I still strongly recommend that you study web programming because this is a very wide, fertile market.

If you program mobile

Contrary to many people think, learning mobile programming is easier than web programming:

You only have to learn a programming language
IOS platform, Android provides a full range of API, sample code, patterns for programmers to learn and create apps
Apple and Google is very supportive in helping programmers to follow their platform.
Most mobile programming language are controlled very tightly, compiled into a binary file. Therefore, if the code is wrong, the app will not running.
If there is no outstanding idea, graphic talent, mobile programmers still find work in outsourcing companies, developing mobile applications for businesses.

Pressure and risk for mobile developers:

In the mobile and Back-end project, people always want to see the application right away, while mobile developers rely on data and Back-end operations. First criticism always poured on mobile applications: hard to use interface, lost connections.
Apple and Google have strict applications approval process force you to comply.
The competitive rate on application markets is very high.
For entertaining applications, keeping users is not easy
Web developers can program mobile applications in JavaScript language when using React Native, iOnic -> directly compete with native app mobile programming.

In the first 24 months, the salary of a mobile developer may be higher than that of web colleagues because: the number of professional mobile developers is currently lacking. However, it is not sure if web developers continue to upgrade their level and become a full stack web developer. Full stack web developer requires a lot of combined skills, systematic overview, obviously, better treatment.