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How Start Being A Web Developer (Quickly)
- antjanus 14y agoAm I missing anything?
- thaumaturgy 14y agoPeter Norvig's essay, "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" might be relevant here: http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html Your post doesn't really define a goal; what level of "web developer" would a person expect to be in a few weeks? I've been a software developer (professionally!) for close to twenty years now, I hand-code all of my web work, and I still consider myself a terrible web developer, especially where CSS quirks and MySQL are concerned. (And people rarely miss an opportunity to tell me how terrible I am!) I had an intern for a little while earlier this year that had zero prior web development experience, and only a little programming. Teaching basic CSS alone took quite a while, and we never even got into all the quirky stuff.
- antjanus 14y agoInteresting. I tried to state the goal in one of the bolded/highlighted notes. Someone on reddit pointed out that it seemed like you could jump into professional web development within a couple of months. I didn't mean to give that impression. Let me requote it for you: "Please be advised that I’m not saying you’ll be able to enter the competitive web development field under 3 months. But you’ll be able to start seeing results, grasp some basics concepts and decide for yourself if you’d like to continue this path. Also, note that these were the times for me, and I had some minimal tech background." See, my thing is, it took me only a few weeks to get into PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS...with Javascript much later (hated javascript for the longest time). Within that time, I was able to decide whether this is something I am capable of doing, something I'd like to do, and where to head from there.