Boring?! Are you insane?!
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Boring?! Are you insane?!
Well, I wasn't before I took this job...
It was my job to run the BBS and other things when the Web became available so it became a collateral duty. Hated doing it and when I changed jobs, feigned no knowledge of Internet stuff as long as I could.... didn't last long. Later I decided to play with some things just because I didn't like the way some of the pages looked on the web.... I've been here at least part-time ever since.
It doesn't seem like web development is something you just "decide" to do. It comes at you in some way and then you take an interest. It seems like it's not a "hmm... today I think I'll learn to build websites". I think it's something you learn when you need it, or when someone else asks you to do it.
How did you go about learning web design and development?
Picked apart code I found in other websites. Which led to horrific abuse of HTML.
Somewhere between 5th and 6th grade I saw my older brother showing my dad some HTML that he was learning in High School. Having recently learned a little QBasic from my dad in gradeschool, my mind was primed for another geekventure. So, I did a little research and patched together my first public site in ... 6th or 7th grade, I think (12 or 13 years ago).
I had my first kid and wanted to put pics online for the family to view.
How I got into it:
Because no one else wanted to do it as their "other duties as assigned."
How I learned it:
By posting stupid stuff here, and being told what I did wrong.
To whom does that sound familiar? *Raises hand*Quote:
Originally Posted by KDLA
I already knew sgml, so adapting to html wasn't a big deal... there was ONE set of standards! Of course very few paid attention to them and later the M$ people decided to make their own set of standards for their browsers.
I was a C, Pascal and Lisp programmer and had varying degrees of fluency in other languages and was flexible... there was always a "Gumby" mascot nearby.
I learned more from fixing poorly constructed pages than starting from scratch... I still recommend that my students fix bad coding as a way to learn today.
JavaScipt (NOT JScript) was neat to learn and useful... and when Apache added mod_perl I got excited. It was a brave new world...
Personally, during my university I was doing AI stuff, mainly Natural Language Processing. Since I needed to pay my courses, I accept some contracts as web developer.
After that, my 'main' work experience was in web so people only offer me contracts related to this. By default, I gain my experience in web dev domain, so today people only offers me jobs related to that domain.
Until I have money, and time, to concentrate on AI, I'll continue to do web dev. But by chance, there's some interesting and challenging things to do in web development today...
MGB
Topped computing studies at school. After no real previous experience it gave me a lot of confidence. Then i landed in a tafe course and got a really good feel for web languages including html, javascript and asp.
Cool thread - very interesting read.
*raises handQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr Initial Man
I started this hoping to see some interesting stories. It's turning out well!Quote:
Cool thread - very interesting read.
