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When I make a WinForms app in VisualStudio I just drag-drop controls, click them and adjust properties the way I want, then click the controls and write the code which is going to execute in particular events. I have never had to learn this, I didn't need a single tutorial.

Once upon a time I've just got a junior C# developer job (without knowing anything but basic C++ and SQL), were given a computer and a real task and implemented a reasonable good-looking (looking and feeling the way common to all the Windows apps) business app that went straight to production just in some hours. And I didn't need anything but intuition and the API reference. It felt exactly like playing Lego.

Despite I also know basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript (I've learnt during the WindowsNT4 years) I have no bloody idea of what to do to get an approximately same result with today web-based front-end technologies. I've seen some React code and it seems pretty extraterrestrial. What scares me is the amount of what I need to learn before I can produce a useful application. And it seems (and feels the scariest) Photoshop and the art of visual design are on the list.




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