With the web, pretty much anybody learning a language like PHP or ASP or whatever can basically do some copy-and-paste programming and have something up on the

With the web, pretty much anybody learning a language like PHP or ASP or whatever can basically do some copy-and-paste programming and have something up on the web ready for public consumption before they have even finished figuring out how programming works. That was the route I took, and thankfully I was sufficiently chastised by better programmers for unleashing stupid, insecure PHP software that I became more cautious.