The front end of a website or application refers to the visual elements that users see and interact with. Front-end development, therefore, refers to the programming and management of the front end of a website or application to provide users with a rich interactive experience. They need to create a website’s entire interface and user experience, as well as its design and overall look. They usually work with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS languages to create a basic layout of the website and then add various visual elements to improve its esthetic quality.

Some performed tasks for a front-end developer include:

1. Creating rough concepts and using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to materialize them.
2. Adapting a website’s design to look and function properly on mobile devices
3. Optimizing the user’s experience on a website and making sure it’s not interrupted by any design or functionality issues.
4. Developing an easy-to-use and intuitive user interface and gradually improving it based on user feedback
5. Constantly testing the website’s front end for ease of use and potential errors and optimizing it to ensure a smoother user experience
6. etc…

Back-end development refers to creating and ensuring the well-running of a website’s internal operations, which are hosted by a server. A website’s back-end is its server, application, and database, so a back-end developer focuses on setting up and maintaining databases, scripts, and the overall website architecture. 

The tasks of a back end developer include:

1. Understanding what the website’s main objectives are and finding various ways to facilitate them
2. Making sure that data is properly stored and that users who want to access it can do so quickly and easily
3. Managing application programming interfaces and making sure they work across devices
4. Organizing a website system’s logic and optimizing it to run properly on multiple devices
5. Creating website architecture that can easily be modified with future upgrades
6. etc…

What are some differences between front end and back end development:

1. The front end refers to the graphical user interface required for navigating a website, including its overall layout, videos, images, text, buttons and every other visual element, whereas the back end solely refers to the way the website should function.
2. Back-end development typically focuses on the application of logic to solve various functionality and user experience issues, while front-end development focuses on making the website look good and provide a positive user experience.
3. Front-end development collects user input, while back-end development processes user inputs.
4. Issues like search engine optimization and user accessibility are handled by front-end developers, while those related to the website’s security and backup are the responsibility of back-end developers.

I chose this topic because I was curious to learn more about the front end and back end and their importance in software development. Being a computer science major, and doing both concentrations, this is important information I need to know to be a good programmer. and develop my computer skills

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