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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.

When: I learned HTML when...internet came out 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 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 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.

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.

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 tried to learn some Java, within minecraft, but I couldn't get the hold of it

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) …

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.

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 , 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 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

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.

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.

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 , 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 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

Interesting story.
Why were you saving nick?

JelvinJS7 wrote:Interesting story.

Thank You

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 .