Hello, I am doing computer science at college and I have been taking the freecodecamp curriculum to boost my learning and practice concepts that I can’t do at college, in my country, the universities focus too much on the theoretical part and give too little to no practice for us to be real “programmers”.
But that isn’t the question I wanna have an answer for, my goal is to be a back-end, So I came across the curriculum and I did the front-end course just to have a notion of how it works but not intending to learn it, But what I want to know is, am I wrong to have this in mind? because I haven’t done the projects, So I don’t know if a Back End Dev must have a strong knowledge of the Front End.
Most developers I have worked with an understanding of both frontend and backend.
So I don’t think it will hurt to finish the RWD cert and get a basic understanding on how frontend works.
especially, in today’s current market.
Even though you want your current focus to be backend, it is good to have at least a basic understanding of the frontend.
I am a learner myself. From my research and talks with Senior SEs, it is best to learn the full stack. freeCodeCamp offers a practical approach to this. While you may choose to specialise in Backend. Frontend skills will boost your delivery.
Also when opportunities you can’t afford to miss come to you, you want to be ready.
I suggest you should complete but get comfortable at Backend then do projects and then do some frontend projects so you have knowledge on it.
It is good to have a broad knowledge, it will help you so much but focused on one.
All the best