 So you want to become a back-end developer in 2024? You reach the right video, let me explain. This video was brought to you by DigiLink Academy. You're number one source to learning programming fast and get to that six-figure salary you desire. Our third-day project course includes our JavaScript front-end projects, our Python back-end projects, our SQL database projects, and much, much more. So go ahead and click the link below to our free seven-step guide so that you can start reaching your programming goals today. I'll see you guys in the course. All right, guys, let's jump right into this, and I'll give you the high-level quick answer before we jump into details. How to become a back-end software developer in 2024 is actually a different answer than what you think. First of all, everybody got the right, the correct programming skills. If you've got a top-ten programming language that you kind of know how it works and you know how to navigate around it, you know how to create a program, you're gonna be in the right shape. When it comes to PHP, it's Python, C, C++, any of those, just to say you got one of those basic programming languages, you know how to navigate the database and you know a little bit about a front-end. I'm not asking you to be a great UI designer, but you know how to identify elements and troubleshoot things. You are gonna be in a good position, but you guys wanna know, hey, how do I become a software developer? But before we get our back-end software developer, but before we get started, guys, put a comment below about your journey to become a software developer so far. Have you had success? Have you been struggling with? Do you have a roadmap? Put the details to that in the comment section. Wanna start to go have a conversation with you guys about that, so go ahead and do that. But at the end of the day, guys, I always start with, hey, let's make sure you can learn how to be, you learn the fundamentals of software development. You know how to recode, you know what it's doing, you know the syntax, you know all the details, and you know how to just troubleshoot the different areas. If you don't, most of online got great resources on how to start programming. We don't get into that here on my channel. We do a little of that in my academy, but as far as YouTube free resources, you can just do a basic Google search on, or I would say YouTube search on and how to become a developer and kinda go from there. Well, you may ask, hey, Rob, which programming language shit I actually learned? That's a good question. You got two approaches here, guys. You got when you're actually learning how to code and what it's gonna actually take to get a job. Most of the time jobs are looking for more enterprise level programming languages, the C-sharps, C, C++, and Java. They obviously lose Python and all that stuff too, but most enterprise languages is gonna be leveraging those, especially for general businesses. Well, if you're first trying to become a developer, I wouldn't necessarily, me personally, suggest those to be the first one you learn, only because the learning curve. It's a little tougher and it can be intimidating, and I want you guys to get some quick wins early to build your confidence. So if I am becoming a software developer, I would actually learn something like a PHP, a JavaScript, or a Python. Even since we're talking specifically about backend, I would just go with Python or either PHP. Those would be the two I would recommend because you can find a ton of resources online about that, you can go on YouTube and type, hey, learn how to code with PHP or with Python. You can find a lot of resources on that guys, just to learn fundamentals, just create a basic computer or app on your computer to just do basic functionality, only so that you can kind of learn, get a little toe in the water on that stuff and get some quick win, and then I would go into how to learn how to read existing coding just to find out what it does, because it's just like anything else. Once you start reading other people's code and how they go by doing it, you start to see the patterns and the trends and you'll have that muscle memory and then the same apply. Once you've kind of done that for PHP or Python, you're gonna transition those skills over to an enterprise level language, like a C or a C++, C sharp Java, where the setup is a little different, but the fundamentals are the same. You're gonna have to do a little bit more to kind of get that program to do similar things with PHP and Python. That's why I like to start with those. And having multiple languages is good. Again, you wanna have your primary focus language that you kind of leverage. That's usually gonna be the one that the company that you are working for, their primary language, or in your industry, or whoever you're doing contract work for, whoever their primary language, that's the one you ultimately need to learn. So, at the end of the day, guys, we gotta really kind of see how we can separate our stuff out to become a developer. We'll have more details about the different areas on how to become a developer. I can't cover everything in this video. What I can do, though, is I got links below to my seven step guide. He's gonna help you guys really go through those seven steps to become a back-end developer, put you in position to win there. And if you already signed up for my seven step guide, we have premium courses below as well that's gonna really get you where you need to be in 30 days so that you can become a developer. And another point I wanna make, guys, is a lot of you guys think, hey, Rod, I'm not that technically savvy. I'm coming from being a teacher or I'm coming from being a business analyst or something that's not a traditional IT professional, which is okay. I'm not saying that it's impossible to become a developer. All I'm saying is it starts and ends with the projects. If you don't have the projects on hand, you're not gonna win unless you know somebody. And I only wanna use that one as an example. The people who know somebody who got an aunt, uncle, or whoever in the company, we're gonna put those to the side because most of us don't have those other resources, especially on a tech company or a business. So we have to put ourself in a position as the average Joe who don't have the internal connections. And if that's the case for you, you gotta be able to stand out and projects are gonna do that for you guys. But at the end of the day, if you don't get those projects right, you might as well not even try to become a developer because you're gonna learn everything about a programming language. You're gonna walk into that interview and they're gonna like, okay, what have you done? What type of work have you done? What type of experiences you got? And then you're gonna be looking at loss. So you wanna go into that job interview. You wanna work on projects. And we cover all that in the Sav Step Guide and my 30 day courses guys, the type of projects that's gonna move the needle for that business. When it comes to user onboarding, automation, algorithm, blockchain, all that good stuff, you have to know specifically what type of projects that that company is needing so that you can get to that next level. But at the end of the day, if you're not willing to at least start the process, you're gonna struggle. So at the end of the day guys, don't wanna keep iterating the same points, but what I want you to take away from this is, start from the basics guys. It's not as hard as you think. You just gotta present your value in a way that actually stands out from all the other coding monkeys out there who just providing code and not providing solutions. That's where it's gonna help you stand out. That's where it's gonna put you in position to win. And you can become a successful back-end developer. And the good news is back-end development, even though it's competitive, but it's not as competitive at front-end. If you're trying to go get a JavaScript job, it's way harder than what you're trying to do in the back-end job. So you're in the right spot. You just need to go ahead and take that next step to actually get started. And the next step is go ahead and click on this link that I'm putting on the screen here to the seven step guide. And I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.