[thelist] Re: how did you learn?

[Tim Kuhn (temp)]

At 06:40 29/06/2004, Paul Bennett wrote:

>How did you first begin your learning? Did you pick up a book?
>Go to online forums? Ask a friend? Take a short course?

The hard way! About 4 years ago I took a "Web Design" course at a local community college's Continuing Education's program. I didn't know anything about Windows and I couldn't type. That class was mostly HTML, CSS and Flash. I struggled with that. The fact that I did not knowing Windows was killing me. I then took the "Web Development" class for adults. That was mostly SQL, VBScript, JavaScript and classic ASP. I struggled with that, not having any previous programming experience. Then I read and read books and online tutorials. I studied JavaScript, DHTML, XML and XSLT until I could build website that was XML driven. I got a job as an XHTML/XML coder. Then .NET came along and I wanted to get on board with that. The company I was working for gave me a chance to learn .NET as I worked. I then took a college course on VB; I needed to take that before any OO programming classes. I studied OO programming on my own, learned C# and I have been a .NET developer for a little over two years now. A little long winded and I apologize for that but not your typical path to become mid-level .NET developer in a relatively short time.


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