[thelist] RE: how did you learn?

Diane Soini dianesoini at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 29 23:04:47 CDT 2004


Personally I can't do the online course thing. Somehow I have no 
retention that way. In the classroom is much better, but I fall asleep 
in night classes nowadays. Best for me is to learn by doing because 
there is pressure and a need to know. Studies show that this is how 
adults learn, or so I've heard.

I learned HTML only because I was forced to not use Dreamweaver by some 
programmers who would have me use vi if they could. That very day they 
issued their prohibition I started writing the code. I had barely ever 
looked at it before.

I've read a lot of books. Web Pages that Suck is highly recommended,  
if outdated. I rely on reference books and on Google. I learn tons from 
this list. And of course I've always relied on view > source, 
copy/paste and hack. There is almost no web site I can ever stand to 
visit without viewing the source. I'd rather read that than the 
content, unless the web site itself is about code.

One thing about this list: At my job I'm like the one-eyed man in the 
land of the blind--I'm the king. They think I'm a genius. Here I think 
most people probably consider me the biggest f***in' idiot that ever 
walked the planet. I don't mind. I never got far starting at the 
beginning. I've always learned the most when I've started in the 
advanced class.



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