The origins of your learning(?)

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The origins of your learning(?)

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So basically what I'm wondering is: how long ago (or when) did you start learning programming languages, what were your motives/reason to learn, how long did it take for you to get/how hard was it, how/where did you learn, and any other info.
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When: I learned HTML when...internet came out :lol: Then later when I got older I learned CSS and JS. Now learning PHP.

Why: Internet was new and cool back then, still is cool :lol: And I figured you could make a business out of it in the future (which is now).

How: Google, YouTube..........Internet in general.

Out of all the languages I've learned I must say, PHP is one of the harder ones for me :lol: I learned C++ in the blink of an eye then moved on to Python, LUA and then finally PHP.

Sounds weird that C++ was easier than PHP but...i'm slightly weird.
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My friend told me "you should learn php" about 3 years ago I think. So I played around with some scripts on his server for a bit basically doing stupid things like
if (1 == 2){
    echo 'erm';
}
I haven't really got as good in any other languages, I know a bit of C because we had to do some for uni stuff and getting a bit better at Java recently because of Minecraft.
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About 1 year ago I was bored on a summer holiday (I was 14 at the time) and had always been interested in 'tech' so decided to learn Java. I soon discovered that although I enjoyed programming Java (and still do occasionally) I realised that web development interested me more, so started learning HTML, CSS and PHP.

How: YouTube, online documentation, books, and mostly just playing around.
I can't think of anything witty to put here!

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I tried to learn some Java, within minecraft, but I couldn't get the hold of it :lol:
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Hmmm…
I first started learning around the middle of the second half of fifth grade. Maybe April 2009?
I first learned HTML, mainly from w3schools and HTML.net
It took me by the end of the school year to get good with HTML — I judge that by me learning when I should have been working on a school project. and some of the stuff on Awesome Randomness are the "corpses" of the stuff I made when learning (if you will).

I started to try learning php/SQL/asp in 6th grade + that summer, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, and I didn't even understand it. Then I finally figured it out in 7th grade (previous school year)! I don't remember how…
I didn't really get anything still until December, but I've made q lot of progress,


I first started learning HTML b/c my friend said you'd need to know it to be able to hack a website. I still haven't figured that out yet (anyone wanna help? XD) :mrgreen:
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JelvinJS7 wrote:So basically what I'm wondering is: how long ago (or when) did you start learning programming languages, what were your motives/reason to learn, how long did it take for you to get/how hard was it, how/where did you learn, and any other info.
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I remember way-way back when I was younger, I went onto the Nickelodeon website at Christmas time, pressed File > Save as... and as they say the rest is history :D, I looked line by line to understand what done what, and basically played around with it, that's going back many years now and I'm still rubbish at HTML :lol: as for PHP, one day I went onto a forum, can't remember which one, but I looked at the URL and the extension ended in forum.php, so I typed PHP into Google and started to read till my heart was content :lol:

and here I am today :), Google has been an interesting help, most of the time.

I have to say, I'm really glad I landed at here at BetterPHP, it's the best place community I've ever visited, thank you jacek.
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AlexJake wrote:I have to say, I'm really glad I landed at here at BetterPHP, it's the best place community I've ever visited, thank you jacek.
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AlexJake wrote: I remember way-way back when I was younger, I went onto the Nickelodeon website at Christmas time, pressed File > Save as... and as they say the rest is history :D, I looked line by line to understand what done what, and basically played around with it, that's going back many years now and I'm still rubbish at HTML :lol: as for PHP, one day I went onto a forum, can't remember which one, but I looked at the URL and the extension ended in forum.php, so I typed PHP into Google and started to read till my heart was content :lol:
Interesting story.
Why were you saving nick?
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JelvinJS7 wrote:Interesting story.
Thank You :D
JelvinJS7 wrote:Why were you saving nick?
At the time, I knew very little HTML, only very basic code, so I saved the nickelodeon website at the time and studied the source code :D .
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