Geeks-for-non-geeks

Welcome to the world of web products!

Samarth Bansal

{{Software Developer | Data Geek | Journalism}}

def StartupGuy(role):
    if role == 'Techie':
        return 'Write Code'
    elif role == 'IdeaMan':
        return 'We don't want you!'
    else:
        return 'Attend STARTUP-101 and understand technology.'

Love Engineering?

Why do Business Guys/Designers need to understand

Technology?

The SOFTWARE STACK!

FRONTEND | BACKEND

FRONTEND

Elements of the product that the customer directly interacts with.

PROGRAMMING + AESTHETICS = FRONTEND

FRONTEND TECHNOLOGIES

Lets talk about FRAMEWORKS!

The aim of frameworks is to provide a common structure so that developers don’t have to redo it from scratch and can reuse the code provided.

jQuery

Bootstrap

AngularJS

Backbone

UI == UX ?

BACKEND

{{The Server Side}}

Server + Application + Database = BACKEND

WHAT IS A SERVER?

Request & Response

Server is a computer accessed remotely that runs software to fulfill requests from clients.

WHAT IS A DATABASE?

APPLICATION

BACKEND FRAMEWORKS!

Development Team

Frontend Dev + Backend Dev + Testers

Never compromise on quality of engineers. A bad hire can kill your company!

MVP?

Where DO PEOPLE GO Wrong?

UnderstandING YOUR USER!