Can elaborate more on the focus on picking up the fundamental vis-a-vis picking up a language? Ways to achieve that? Thanks.
Yup... apart from the above, more common DS like array/list, map/hashmap/dictionary/, different paradigims of programming like OO/functional, (especially for OO, even though you dont explicitly need classes in alot of languages, alot of today's web frameworks use OOP) , different architectural design patterns like MVC, MVP, MVVM, error handling, proper logging etc etc etc... How and when to use them
Read alot of code. Look at how people structure their code. Things like one function, one purpose, makes it easy to write unit tests.
Make it a habit to do testing. Ya testing very mafan, testing very chor, need mock here, mock there, but at the end of the day, testing will save your life.
Python is a great language if you're starting out, has plenty of features, is simple enough to read, and generally a very forgiving language in nature.
I'd argue its still a decent language even now, there are plenty of web applications built using django, and I normally use flask to do rapid prototyping. I also use it to do scripts, although recently I've moved to golang for my cli tools because of the ease of compiling into a binary and passing it to my colleagues.
My advice may be skewed towards web development, but if by any chance you are pursuing web development, you will also need to learn javascript, and one of the more popular frameworks (react/angular).
When I started out as a developer, this was the path I took
I started out learning PHP, because this was a few years ago, and PHP was still wildly popular amongst the more senior devs at that firm, because well, that was all they used back then. The stack is pretty outdated nowadays but it's still quite robust.
After that, I was moved to another project, learnt python there, used flask and django, frontend was built with legacy jquery.
Next project I did nodeJS.
Since then I've done projects in ruby, golang, front end I only moved to react and stayed there.
I went from writing basic scripts to be executed by the application as a scheduler to working on the application to writing middleware services sitting in between the main application.
The most important part of building backend services is logical thinking ba imho. Once you are able to get down your application logic ensure that you pick the right language/framework for the job. There is no cookie cutter one fits all solution, not say you know python then die die must everything write in python. And usually, if u know what u want to do, you can then break it down into smaller problems and google for how to do it in that particular language/framework.
Can ask davidtkw to put this in better words than I can ba. My english not very good. hard to express what I mean clearly.
