Front End Design Conference – Mason Stewart – A frontender builds a backend: learning to think with your eyes closed

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• Works at The Iron Yard
• Why is backend programming so scary to frontenders?
• You have to be a “certain kind of person” to do backed work.   huh??
• How can front-end devs get into backend? – Understand the similarities
• The primary difference between the front and back is the type and degree of feedback
• Learn to play and not to worry
• You don’t have to build cool stuff or stuff that works perfectly (when learning)