[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if outdated.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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