one of the major positive parts of doing web development is that the worlds largest repository of information happens to be skewed directly towards this topic,

one of the major positive parts of doing web development is that the worlds largest repository of information happens to be skewed directly towards this topic, the web is an amazing resource. It would also be a good idea to hop on irc for your language / framework of choice, there is also stackoverflow, and it cant hurt to find people in the local web dev community you can bounce ideas off and learn from. I do believe there are good reasons to go to university / take classes, but I dont think learning general web development is one of them