[thelist] how did you learn?

[Dan McCullough]

I started back in 1993.  It started as a hobby in college as building
computers was getting boring.  The computer sciences program closed the
same year I transferred in so that wasn't an option.  So I learned every
way I could, and being someone who learns by doing I just put my head
down and went at it.  To be honest with you I don't read many books, I
have some but they are mostly the pocket reference.  I'm on mailing
list, in forums, limbo dances, finding examples and picking them apart
and little by little you start answering questions as much as you are
asking.

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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Alan McCoy
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=> How did you first begin your learning? Did you pick up a 
=> book? Go to online forums? Ask a friend? Take a short course? 

I started learning it back in 1996, when the company I was working for
wanted to be able to do a web site for one of their clients. Nobody else
on
the team wanted to learn it so I jumped in and LOVED it! I learned
enough
Photoshop (3.0 back then) to do some simple buttons and graphics and dug
further into HTML. (this was not long after <table> had just caught on)
I
ended up loving web dev so much that I landed a job with a NASA
university
contractor as their webmaster. (haven't used that title in a looooong
time!)

The webmaster job provided me with more than enough time to learn the
things
I wanted to know...more Photoshop skills, JavaScript, Linux servers,
Perl,
PHP, MySQL, Illustrator, Flash, and even 3D animation.

I've never taken a class and my graphic design sensibilities (whatever
they
are) stem from my past work in advertising, theatre, and art classes I
took
as a kid. My web-related learning has mostly been online tutorials, the
occasional book, product demos, and a lot of viewing source.

Alan

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