How did you first learn to code?

[camuk19]

So, topic says it all really, where did you guys learn to code your first HTML page?

I learnt basic HTML over at Dave's Site (http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/) when i was about 12, then recently i began picking up CSS from the w3schools site.

What about you?

[Kusion]

I don't remember what age. But I remember never reading tutorials on HTML, just books. I also got half my codes from DW, which I hate now :p

And for CSS, I just looked at peoples source code for the CSS and studied it, learned it in about 1 week or less.

And currently, a friend of mine is teaching me PHP and MySQL. Guy's amazing, seriously :eek:

[Andrew]

It was a little more than a year ago, I just felt like starting to make websites so I learned how to code.. never actually learned how to code with tables (I know how, just never did).

[Jen]

I started Web & Graphic designs in 2002 by self taught. I first used html program, that's how I learned html language.

I also coding xhtml/css and php/mysql(low) :)

xhtml/css = played with someone's source and understood xhtml/css benefits. Took me about 3-5 days to learned.
php/mysql = mostly mysql I learned, w3schools and played with someone's source. Took me about 3-5 days to understood php/mysql.

[jeremy]

come on people; html != coding

back in the late 90s i wanted a certain type of perl script for my first website. but the only decent ones costed hundreds of dollars, and i was only like 13 so i didn't have that kind of cash. so i taught myself perl using online tutorials and looking at others' code and wrote my own (eventually).

[L146705]

learnt a bit myself, then the rest at uni/work.

[Shaun]

I've known HTML for a while, its only recently that ive started using xHTML/CSS, and im picking it up pretty quick. W3School would have to be the best place, and also by looking at other peoples code.

[Submerge]

Back when I was 14 I went to this site, funky-chickens.com. They had code snippets that I went through almost daily looking at HTML and implementing it and learning off it. The only troubles I had were tables, they were pretty tricky for me. Wow, this was over 6 years ago. :o

[Anthony]

http://www.htmlgoodies.com

That one website taught me a lot, and got me into website building.

[Michael]

I used davesite to learn basic HTML like 5 years ago also.

[Slevin]

html for dummies when i was 11 :P

[Gareth]

I think mainly by looking at souce code, oh and Dreamweaver :p There was no one thing that taught me, I just managed to pick it up very quickly.

[jacob]

I learned in college thru a 2-year diploma program.

[Targowski]

Dreamweaver helped me alot, aswell as a good deal of SitePoint books.
I usually just took a look at the source-codes, and with SitePoint's book on xhtml/css I knew what I was looking at.

[Quicksilver]

Currently learning css from a book at sitepoint, would recommend it to anyone.

[JustinG]

It was in 1999, and I got a good friend to design me a website for free (took a while to convince him) and then I just read in google some tutorials because I just couldnt wait and then I would div's in 2001 and things sort of took off =]

[Tyler]

Seems like centuries ago, but:

www.htmlgoodies.com (http://www.htmlgoodies.com)

I'd definitely not suggest it now, but back then it was great when things were a lot 'simpler'.

"So you wanna make a _____, eh?"

[Indy]

(x)HTML / CSS: w3schools; "The Zen of CSS Design" book;

PHP / SQL: "Sam's teach yourself PHP in 24 hours" eBook; PHP.net; PHPFreaks

[Breakpoint]

I learned basic HTML codng when I was about 13 from FunkyChicken website. I recently started learning CSS coding intergration from my roommate. He is kind of helpful, but other forums are helping me with better techniques.

[Sam]

I took a class when I was 12.

[Whitey]

When I first learnt HTML, it was from PageResource (http://www.pageresource.com/).

However I don't really classify HTML as coding - it's way too simple. More scripting ^_^.


As for real coding, I first learnt it well back in the day...


I think I was 11 (haha, beat you camuk19 :D), and I was up at my grandparents house. My cousin was up there to - we were there for holidays.

He was a couple of years older than me, and was very interested in the internet. My grandparents had a shiny new 56k modem, which he used to explore places like astalavista, and genocide2600...

Anyway, we had Windows 3.1 (I believe it was) on that PC, and were exploring one day. He found BASIC on there and taught me the little he knew about it.

He went out one day with my grandparents while I stayed home and played with this new thing. It puzzled, but fascinated me. I wanted to solve it, to hold the key in my hands.

So I got coding. And the first thing I thought of writing? A hacking program!


It was DOS of course... Here's a bit of an example:


Please enter your name >
Whitey
Hi Whitey, welcome to HackTools version 1. May I take your coat? Please enter the password:
kelly (name of a girl who I very much fancied at the time)
Success! Menu:
1) Email bombing
2) Virus attack
3) Destroy PC
4) Take down network


Now all of these had different inputs, functions, etc on them. Eventually they all lead to...


Thank you. Your IP has been traced while you were playing around with these "hacking tools" and the FBI are on their way. Have a good day jerk.
....


Showed it to my cousin, compiled, didn't say it was mine :P. Told him I'd downloaded it. Was awesome watching his face.


Anyway, that was almost 8 years ago, and I've been coding ever since :P.



- Whitey

[Arthur07]

Years ago :). I just looked at the source code of simple webpages and figured it out from there. It's not like HTML is an ever expanding language ;).

[Submerge]

I learned web design when I was 11
I learned HTML when I was 13 or 14 from Funky-Chickens.com
I learned graphic design when I was 15 or 16
I learned coding when I was 16 or 17, was GW-Basic
I learned object-oriented programing when I was 20

[Arthur07]

If we are talking about coding in general....

I learned how to use PHP/SQL last year.
2003/2004ish i've used VB6, VB.NET, and later VB 2005 and touched on C#
CSS last view years (makes a tremendous change to the look of my websites :))
and HTML years ago (as stated above).

[Breakpoint]

Geocities was one of the first

I use to go on the internet and was interested in making a page like the ones I saw

Made very stupid pages, I was like 13 at the time

There are people who are 13 now and know way more than me

[Submerge]

Geocities was one of the first

I use to go on the internet and was interested in making a page like the ones I saw

Made very stupid pages, I was like 13 at the time

There are people who are 13 now and know way more than me

Then again, the Internet was pretty new still back when. You don't have the powerful equipment like you have now.