What is front-end?

Web development is a large and ever expansive frontier, and the front-end is an integral part of that landscape. In this video, Pat DePuydt helps us navigate the rabbit hole and explains what the front-end is, where it’s featured, and why it is such an important aspect of the web today.

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[myraware]

This was very informative. I like the fact that you said that the front end is a manifestation of someone's ideas and even dreams and is based on how the developer feels about the company can determine how they design the front end. I love it and Thank you very much for that introduction for me. Now I am more interested in coding. see you soon

[Morey]

Great video for people new to the industry. Please keep them coming, I enjoyed your explanations!

[Waterbottles]

This was a fantastic video. Love him. To his point, him explaining the part about "This is someone's idea/dreams" actually made me emotional. lol

[livelovelaugh]

@Pat: This video was clear, helpful, detailed and informative.

Thank you for making and sharing this video.

[MathTech]

Great video. Easy to understand. Which mean you are a really good teacher.

[TheRocky]

Excellent work, really appreciate your effort on sharing the knowledge!

[weebs]

The Front-End is what the user interact with. (Or something like that)

This video helped me understand what front-end means. Good presentation and nice visuals Pat. Thank you for this video.

[lolanicolau]

Thanks so much! This video was so easy to understand

[Zacthe]

Thanks for the "Front- End" lesson.

[MrIgimano]

Great video man, thanks for the inspiring words :)

[mayankmrinal]

Nice explaination but if you add some visiographic thing then it would be more better for understanding.
Thank you very much sir☺️

[theNimboo]

That was really interesting. I'm having a hard time deciding whether or not UX/UI design or Front End Development is for me. But I figured that in order to know what sorts of designs are possible, it would be good to be at least familiar with Front End technologies, so I am starting with the Front End Course on CodeCademy, and then I'll try Design after.

My main Question though, is how UX/UI Designers balance new ideas with research. Like At some point you have to experiment, correct? You have to be willing to design something new, and then test it with research to see if it works/people like it, correct? You can't only research, because what are you having them test? Who built that? Right? At some point there is a risk, an educated guess of a design that could work, correct? Thank so much for your help

[neriomolero]

HOLA COMO PUEDO HACER SI NO SE HABLAR INGLES HABRA ALGUAN OPCION PARA PODER VER EL VIDEO SUBTITULADO AL ESPAÑOL ?

[codedynamics]

Hi Pat, are you familiar with CMS Content Management Systems? Can you give a brief explanation? Thanks

[kandiekane]

Is there a video or website, outside of Codecademy, that helps break down JS? I understood HTML and CSS, but Javascript is not making any sense at all to me.

[sakshipandya]

love the video but what should a cs student should focus on back end or front end

[rubykayshemaria]

is it ok to just get certificates and not degree?

[hero-uz]

Learning front-end development is worth in the era of AI progress???

[alxb]

I having gotten my feet wet In html and into CSS or cascading styling sheet although I must admit isn’t going as fast but coming along and haven’t gotten into JavaScript yet but nonetheless i sometimes wonder if using WordPress in its entirety as to building websites would fall under anywhere in CSS front end especially since in the literary sense definitely fits a profile of such characteristics in my opinion

[JJ-iswm]

so front end is the interface and back end iss the code behind it?