Hello Evan, Another great place to get advice from others in the field is the upcoming New England Regional Developers (NERD) summit: https://nerdsummit.org/ Lots of networking opportunities, as well as workshops/lectures for a variety of skill levels. I'm not a web dev (I work in L&D), but there are a lot of transferable skills between the two fields (UI/UX, design, analytics, etc.), so I go to keep up with trends. I thoroughly enjoyed the conference last year. (For the record, this is not a sponsored post--I do not represent any of the companies sponsoring the event) Best, Renée On 21 February 2017 at 14:52, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:35:34 -0500 Evan Yeadon <eyeadon40 at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I wanted to get a general consensus of how people learned web > programming. > > What helped you to get to a comfortable level where you were able to work > > professionally as a web programmer? Did you go to school, learn from > > working at a company, self-teach or a combination of these things? Have > > some people learned primarily by writing PHP within the WordPress or > Drupal > > environment? > > I basically learned ALL of my programming (from BASIC, FORTRAN, SNOBOL4, > LISP, > Pascal, C/C++, Java, Assembler [8008/8080, 6502, 68000, CDC CYBER, and > VAX], > Cobol, APL, Tcl/Tk, to HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript), pretty much on my > own > (mostly self-taught, with some courses here and there), mostly from books > and > "just doing it". (And yes, that includes writing PHP, etc. within the > WordPress environment.) > > > > > > After completing a certificate program in web development, I have > continued > > to self-study PHP, JavaScript and CSS through books and online resources. > > Recently I have developed some WordPress websites for small businesses. I > > have reached a point where I have good abilities coding HTML and CSS. > With > > programming languages, I still consider myself a beginner. Any feedback > you > > may have for me as an aspiring developer/programmer would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Thank You, > > > > Evan Yeadon > > > > www.evanyeadon.com > > > > -- > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 > Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services > heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20170221/3d9ced8b/attachment-0001.html