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Whoa, I'm really glad I read that. I've always had this lingering worry that my being completely new to coding, and my tendency to learn by doing instead of rea
by marcos123 16y ago
Whoa, I'm really glad I read that. I've always had this lingering worry that my being completely new to coding, and my tendency to learn by doing instead of reading a book... any book, would surely prevent me from finding success. It's just really easy to get sucked into coding. The first thing anyone wants to do is learn how to make text a certain color or size, and then from a little CSS, everything is like a perfect stepping stone. HTML to PHP to Python. And even then, it's possible to get by on only coding what you need to, if you start with a good cms. So... I guess what I'm saying here is although I am glad and it's great that coding "like you just learned how to program" can be an asset, but if it's actually so easy to be one of those people that just learned how to program˚, shouldn't everyone be a little more worried about competition than they are? I know I feel a bit of a burning sensation under my ass each time I manage to cobble something awesome together, with 99% being someone else's freely available code and 1% being mine.
˚and by program, I guess I just mean building stuff.
Merry Christmas!