Sep-26-2021, 04:29 PM
There is likely a big difference between what you want to do and what there is demand for. Which one do you really want to ask about?
Web scraping is only necessary when the owners of the data do not want the data to be shared easily. If they want to make it easily shared then they would provide a web service or API, whatever you want to call it. You should learn how to use web services and how to create them.
I am not sure what the market is like now but I assume that beginners still are much more likely to be hired for maintenance than new development. Employers want programmers that can fix and modify systems developed by others; sometimes the software has already been modified by many others. They often want someone that can clean up and/or fix messes. If you want a job then you need to be realistic.
Databases are sure important. Also for a job you need to be able to do systems the way that most developers do, not the way you want to. So learning something like Django would be important.
Web scraping is only necessary when the owners of the data do not want the data to be shared easily. If they want to make it easily shared then they would provide a web service or API, whatever you want to call it. You should learn how to use web services and how to create them.
I am not sure what the market is like now but I assume that beginners still are much more likely to be hired for maintenance than new development. Employers want programmers that can fix and modify systems developed by others; sometimes the software has already been modified by many others. They often want someone that can clean up and/or fix messes. If you want a job then you need to be realistic.
Databases are sure important. Also for a job you need to be able to do systems the way that most developers do, not the way you want to. So learning something like Django would be important.