Introduction
Software development involves tasks related to creating software from planning to the maintenance of them. It’s conducted by different types of software development careers who give instructions to the computer to perform specific tasks to support business needs.
Let’s explore what characteristics each type has:
1) Front-end development
The professionals who deal with displaying content of websites in trendy and colorful design with interactions for users. They focus more on design than theory and comprehension of interaction between human and machine. Their expertise is in user interface and user experience design (UIUX), UI framework, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
2) Back-end development
The experts handle all operations related to interactions with servers, databases, transactions between users and applications, application programming interfaces, and other internal structures. This development happens behind the scenes which bring the applications alive with features, allowing users to communicate with the applications to help them complete their tasks.
3) Full stack development
These professionals specialize in both front-end and back-end development.
4) Application development
This includes 3 different types which developers pursue to build:
- System software is the basis that programs run on. For instance, operating systems such as Linux, Windows, macOS
- Programming software is middleware programs or individual tools which developers use for programming, testing, deployment. For instance, debuggers, integrated development environments (IDE).
- Application software is for end users, and provides features to perform specific tasks and activities. For instance, programs related to creating documents and storing (Microsoft Office Word), playing movies or music (Movies & TV, media player)
5) Data science
Data scientists bring forth the value of data for production. They manipulate massive quantities of data using analytical approaches to generate important insights. They provide predictive models for software development. However, without software development skills and good communication practices, as well as if the data sources are siloed, they fail in deploying models to production. The solution is for them to pick up some basic skills in software development to be able to grasp and incorporate these basics to deploy models to production and generate value. In this way, they can also branch out to become more highly sought professionals, MLOps (machine learning operations).
6) Game development
They involve in different stages of game creation, design, and production. Games can be developed by an individual or in teams. They work on the development of concepts, scenarios, game frameworks, creation of visual characters, scenes, environments, sound effects, soundtracks, and challenges. Primary coding languages used in game development are C, C++, and C#, but the commonly applied ones are HTML5, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python. This software development will likely continue for many years to come.
Conclusion
Now you have a better understanding of each type of software development career, you can pursue to work on your favorite type of software development for your future.
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