What is Software Development

Software Development

Here to talk about Software Development. what is development?  Well  development of software is the process of creating all those amazing apps programs games that you use in your daily life. It is a software program like Facebook or Quick Books you're doing your finances in or Angry Birds on your phone all of those things had to be developed and they're developed by folks known as developers. So today we're going to take you through the development process some of the different tools different development languages different types of developers talk about the lingo and get up to speed on the whole process.Software developers are concerned with all of the different components associated with software development process.Software development process because it is a process there's a lot to software development and they work across multiple platforms so software developers might work on creating code they might work on the database they might work on the front end servers they cover a lot of ground and these are generally fairly smart folks that do this folks that love math solving problems so they basically use different tools and they use what's called a development language and there's lots of development languages we'll get into that a little bit to create the software that end-users will then use potentially all around the world so again any sort of program you use a developer created that or probably more likely a team of developers created it. Their job is really broad it includes researching designing implementing and testing Software so being a developer is not a boring job it's definitely a job where you're sitting in front of a computer a lot but if you're someone who just really enjoys solving problems has a really creative mind. Becoming developer is a great way to go so many applications development.There are some terms you're' going to hear interchangeably programming and applications. 

 

Application Development

The term application development is often used to refer to the activity of a computer programming which is the process of writing and maintaining source code. So source code is kind of like the master document the master code this source code so any changes that get made to a program they go in and they change the source code in a broader sense the term application development eludes all that's involved between the conception of the program or application and the design process till the final manifestation of that application slash program.So applications develop make lewd things like research new development modifications reusing them other code to create new things and re-engineering.You know definitely taking lessons learn from other products and repurposing them maintaining again testing there's a lot to being a developer so clarification and I think I've already said this if I want to say it again programmer and developer we're going to use those interchangeably so a developers a programmer and a  programmer is a developer.

Types of Software Developers

 There are several types of software developers and this is a broad category covers everything from web development of video game development. We'll talk about different types of developers as we get more into the career map but they all fundamentally doing a lot of the same things. They're using a software development language and set of tools to write a program or create code with a specific purpose in mind and there's a lot of ways to get there and there's a lot of different approaches to this. But you know just for your purposes they're basically writing code to create software. So software developers sometimes build a product from scratch or are often asked to modify existing software. A lot of software developers are ended like maintaining products or updating products. It's very common and they need to be creative thinkers with exceptional problem-solving skills these are the guys that love working on the Rubik's Cube. Being a software developer was not my thing but if you can we focus and you love solving problems being a software developer might be the right career path for you so let's see types of developers.

Application Developer

 There's application developers and application developers are really focused on specifically creating applications things like Angry Birds anything on your iPhone Android that was created by an application developers.

 System Developer

system developers are really looking more at a whole holistic view. They're creating actual systems so maybe they're programming things like operating systems or they're creating machine language to do specific jobs like in manufacturing the system developers. Those guys are deep that's a deep set of skills. You could probably become an application developer without having a four year six year degree a lot of the system developers really do have heavy backgrounds in mathematics and really can get deep deep deep into like things like machine language web developer just like it sounds so application developers are creating apps web developers are really focused on the web experience.

Web Developers

How the website works its aesthetic how does it look on a mobile device as opposed to in a standard browser on a screen? What kind of experience is the end user having you know integration of video and other different user experience tools? The creation of the web environment whether that web environments on a phone or on a tablet or on your computer they're looking at all those different variables to create a unified awesome experience. For the web and then game developers. Game developers hot-hot-hot right now. 

Game Developers

Game developers create games and creating games it's his own thing. It has its own development languages its own environments. They are developed for specific platforms.  You could develop a game for Xbox or PlayStation on the phone. One of those has a separate environment to be developed in so to be a game developer you got to get pretty deep too and you got to get really good at the platform you're developing.  Microsoft has its own set of game developers and their own languages versus. Angry Birds versus Android so game developers they tend to get focus on a specific platform and it really is its own thing.

Now of these four development types let's say you didn't want to go back to college and really dig in and you just want to sort of learn on the fly and find an entry-level career and grow with I would definitely take a look at web developer an application developer.You can become a web developer that's probably the shortest path. To become a web developer and a lot of folks just jump into web development who haven't really been in technology before application developer there's a lot of online course.