Web Application Developer
(field of studies: Computer Science in Business)

1. You visit a website that looks broken on your phone. What do you do?

I open the browser’s developer tools to see what’s wrong with the code. It annoys me, so I switch to my computer. I close the page and forget about it.

2. Have you ever tried building your own website?

Yes – I wrote it in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and loved adding new features. Yes, but only with a ready-made website builder. No, and I don’t fancy it.

3. You have an idea for a web app – say, for planning nights out with friends. What do you do?

I write down what it should do, design the screens and think about how to store users’ data. I check whether someone has already made something similar and use that. I drop the idea – I’d never pull it off anyway.

4. On the programme, you build websites and web apps in international teams, discussing requirements, documentation and code in English. How do you feel about that?

Good – I enjoy talking through solutions in English and like working with people from different countries. I can handle the written side, but talking a project through out loud in English makes me nervous. I’d rather work only in my own language.

5. Do you care whether a website is easy to use, not just good-looking?

Yes – I check whether it’s clear, intuitive and accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. For me, it’s mainly about how it looks. I don’t really pay attention to that.

6. A form on a site you’re building doesn’t save anything when you click the button. How do you find the bug?

I go through it step by step: the page code, the console messages, the request sent to the server and its response. I change random bits of code until it works. I ask someone else to fix it – I don’t like hunting for bugs.

7. Are you curious about what happens behind the scenes – on the server and in the database – when you log in to a website?

Yes – I want to understand how data is sent, stored and protected. A bit, but I’m more interested in how the site looks. No, as long as it works, I’m happy.

8. Someone points out that your site is easy to attack because it doesn’t check what users type in. How do you react?

I thank them, fix the security holes and learn how to avoid mistakes like that in future. I fix that one form and forget about it. I decide nobody’s going to bother attacking my site.

9. How do you pick up new web tools and technologies?

On my own – from courses, documentation and my own experiments – and I enjoy it. When someone shows me everything step by step. Reluctantly – I’d rather not have to learn new tools.

10. What motivates you most to study Web Application Developer?

The chance to build web apps that people use every day – from what appears on screen to what happens on the server. Curiosity about how websites and online services are made. I’m not sure it’s for me