What is a full stack developer?

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A full stack developer, in either of the two modalities we offer at Ubiqum, is a guarantee of high quality digital employment and is available to anyone with enough motivation to work hard for 500 or 800 hours intensively. Full time or part time, on campus or remotely. Everyone can learn to program, we guarantee it.

But back to the topic. Full Stack Developer is an English term that is difficult to translate into other languages. It is actually a web developer with knowledge of all facets of front end and back end development and project management tools.

Full stack development: Front-End and Back-End

• Front end: The front end of an application is the part that interacts with the user. If you think of the application you use to communicate with your bank from your cell phone, the front end is the part that you have loaded on your device and use from there. The front end, beyond web programming, must consider the usability, design, structure and readability of the app. The front end must provide a satisfactory user experience that invites to repeat.
• Back end: By contrast, the back end is the part that runs on the server and is invisible to the user. If you think of your bank’s application, the backend is where your token is, which identifies you as a user and your account balance information.

The skills of a Full Stack Developer

To work as a web developer in both the backend and front end of a web or mobile application, a Full Stack Developer must have knowledge of the following subjects:

Front End programming tools and languages

• HTML (HyperText Markup Language): HTML, is the basic language of the World Wide Web. HTML5 (the most updated version and the one used in Ubiqum) is a markup language and is not strictly speaking a programming language, since it has no logical functions. It is a way of coding a document that, along with the text, incorporates tags or markup containing additional information about the structure of the text and its presentation in the browser. It is responsible for creating the content of the application or web page that the user accesses and for giving the content its own style.
• CSS:   (Cascading Style Sheets) is the language used to define the presentation of a structured document written in HTML. The idea behind the development of CSS is to be able to separate the content and structure of a document from its presentation format. The most common version in today’s business environment is CSS3.
• JavaScript is the programming language that manages to ‘give life’ to the elements of the developed application. In fact, it is said that thanks to it it is possible to go from fixed to dynamic and interactive. It has the peculiarity of being the only language that operates natively with the web browser, although it can also be used from the server.
• REACT React is a JavaScript library used to create visual parts of web applications. It facilitates the creation of interactive and dynamic user interfaces through the use of reusable components. With React, developers can build more efficient and maintainable interfaces for their web applications.

In Ubiqum’s Full Stack course you will learn these four technologies and become an expert Front End developer.

Back End programming tools and languages

On the back end side, a different set of technologies is used:

• JavaThe most widely used backend language today is JAVA. All large corporations, or if not all, most of them, use Java in the back end and that is why the demand for programmers in this language is so large and growing. Java is a programming language and computing platform first commercialized in 1995 by Sun Microsystems. Java is fast, secure and reliable. From laptops to data centers, from gaming consoles to supercomputers, from cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere.
• MERN. A popular alternative for building the backend of applications is to use JavaScript in conjunction with a set of tools known by the acronym MERN. MERN consists of different open source components: MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js. With this set of tools you can build the front and backend of an application always using JavaSCript.
• Databases: when creating a web page or mobile application, it is necessary to have somewhere to store the information, the data, needed to provide the service. Therefore, a full stack developer must be able to handle the databases that store such data and know how to operate with them.
• Web architecture: It is the Full Stack Developer’s responsibility to know how to structure an application so that it is efficient, effective and easy to maintain. All these elements are solved by the architecture design. A good architecture has three layers. A three-layer solution (presentation, business logic, data) residing on two computers (Presentation+logic on one side or Front-end; logic+data on the other or back-end).
• Git: Finally, in modern software development projects, where dozens of programmers can work at the same time and asynchronously, version control software is used to ensure productivity, security, organization and project management. Git (and GitHub) is the tool most used by professionals. Creating a profile on GitHub is absolutely essential in the case of team work and highly recommended in the case of individual work.

Become a Full Stack Developer and start your new digital career

At Ubiqum we are specialists in training people in the field of programming and web development with the purpose of helping them become Full Stack Developers to start a new digital career.

We offer two courses that meet the current market needs in this area:

• Full Stack Developer with JAVA. In this course of 5 months and 800 hours, you will learn Java as a backend language along with HTML, CSS and Javascript for the Front end.
• Full stack Developer with JavaSCript/MERN. In this three-month, 480-hour course, the back end is built with MERN and JavaScript tools and HTML and CSS are used for the front end.

How do Ubiqum courses work?

• These are 100% practical, project-based courses, with no lectures, subjects or exams.
• You can take the course full-time or part-time, on campus or remotely.
• You will work with your personal programming mentor from day one.
• At the end of the course you will have your own portfolio of projects developed by you that you will be able to show at the job interview.
• At the end of the course we will help you find your first job as a web developer to start your new digital career.

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