Declan1991;1207081 wrote:I take it you've never programmed before?
It is hardly a background in programming or impressive from the viewpoint of someone who already has a real career in web development, but this where I am coming from.
I taught myself HTML at 16 and have used it on and off over the last 15 years. I have built 20+ websites, worked on more community projects than I can count, and worked with other languages for most of these projects. I cannot read them per say but I am good at analyzing code structure, figuring out what likely goes where, looking up what I need on the internet, etc... I have heavily modified phpBB well beyond downloading plugins, I've worked extensively with phpMyAdmin and databases, I've modified a JavaScript search engine to suit my needs, started learning Visual Basic, Python, C#, CSS, XML, PHP, and JavaScript all over the last 10 years. Life has been busy and often unstable, so I never got much farther than 50 pages into any book for these languages. Note that any examples that were taught were successfully completed though.