Kid is interested in web development. Anyone know anything about it?

College, tech school, online learning.

How old is she? Still in high school? College? In a career and looking for a fresh start? It impacts how i would answer this.

You’re not wrong. Reddit, Wordpress, Azure/AWS free tier.

I see LSU offers a coding boot camp. And devry offers some sort of course.

Don’t let them do it, AI will mostly kill off Web design and front end dev IMO. Instead have them look into ontology, vector DBs, NLP and language models, if motivated/disciplined they can learn all of these by themselves. Then an internship and you’re off to the races. If they really love front-end stuff, just good human factors UI/UX principals could help them use an AI tool to create and tailor user-facing solutions. Good luck to them!

This is Greek to me but was very helpful to her. Thank you.

Tell her to get on that Handshake app and find an internship doing some sort of development work.

As earlier suggested, can learn a lot about web development online. All the tools are basically free. Or she can use an online course. Or she can change her major if her college has something inline with that. I’d be cautious about that though. A computer science or engineering degree is going to teach you software development which is more general, and more technical ,than web development. If you just want to build websites and make content, that’s more marketing. In my opinion. Learn to use Wordpress, Adobe, stuff like that. Which you can do online.

I liked the A Cloud Guru courses specifically targeted at certification for AWS or Azure. Just because it’s valuable to employers to have the cloud experience and the certification helps with entry level jobs I used their courses and went through the labs years back, it really was useful.

I recommend her finishing her degree then going straight to a coding boot camp.

There are more and less formal ones. The University of Texas offers a 24 week program that is pretty well regarded and is very formalized, but you can do less formal ones and get your foot in the door. Many companies will come hire new grads straight from the program.

It is becoming a slightly saturated market if I'm being honest and AI isn't helping that. Web development is arguably the most saturated so just make sure she knows that.