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Conversely, I often think how lucky I am to have entered the industry at this point. I learnt HTML by initially downloading websites using ctrl-s, and then edi
by verbify 11y ago
Conversely, I often think how lucky I am to have entered the industry at this point.
I learnt HTML by initially downloading websites using ctrl-s, and then editing them in notepad. I learnt HTML/CSS, and then JavaScript, and then other languages.
I had the advantage that I had a GUI text editor. While I'm now quite comfortable using VIM and command-line editors, I sometimes think if I had tried to become a developer before the advent of GUI editors the learning curve would have been too steep.
Perhaps under the hood things are more complex, but the interfaces have improved.
- Spearchucker 11y agoInterfaces have improved because the scope of the thing has grown. I learnt HTML in 1995, I think shortly before HTML 2 was released. It was tiny back then. Using anything other than a text editor was inconceivable (I doubt there was any tooling back then). CSS and JavaScript didn't even exist. We had CGI for emailing form content, but most of the web was static. By 1998 I was convinced that every app ever would be online. Today I've come full circle, avoiding web dev like the plague (too many tools) and stick with desktop and phone apps.
- sklogic 11y agoNotepad? GUI? Are you kidding? Emacs was a GUI, Notepad is a joke of a GUI.