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In a way, this is a big part of how I transitioned from someone who knew how to program a Commodore 64 to someone that could help people build web pages (and ev
by neogodless 9y ago
In a way, this is a big part of how I transitioned from someone who knew how to program a Commodore 64 to someone that could help people build web pages (and eventually be able to do other things good, too.)
I had a Geocities web site, and I loaded it down with JavaScript widgets that I wrote. Things to flip images around. Things to annoy you with alerts. Then I spent countless hours in MS Paint making images out of bitmaps which I then wired up using JavaScript to emulate an Iron-man watch (complete with glowing and a very bad battery!)
There was "no risk." It was fun and exploratory. It didn't achieve anything useful for anyone else, but I learned and got confident in learning (and experimenting.) When someone actually hired me and threw ColdFusion at me, it was wildly different... from QBasic and from JavaScript... but I just experimented and figured out how to do CRUDDY things.