What was your way of learning code?

Books, Online, College, High School.

What way did you use to learn web design or web programming?


For me I am using codeacademy.com its good site and 100% free.

Okay I have to say that's a really cool site.

Love Codeacademy. Went thru most of their JS tut, and they just added Python. Codeschool is another good one along the same lines, except you have to pay for everything but Ruby/Ruby on Rails.

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Indeed It is. I love it better the w3 school

I started way back in 97-ish. I used Yahoo Geocities with the online editor. It had a few quirks which I didn't like, so I started using Netscape Composer. Still, it didn't seem to do exactly what I wanted, so, I out of curiosity, I right-clicked on the HTML file and saw it was easy to read. I then found the W3C HTML 4.01 spec pages. I printed them up and used them as reference.

I began on Yahoo GeoCities with their PageBuilder. I hated how uneven my site was and opened Notepad after I bought Web Design for Dummies. Since then it's been a motley of W3 Schools, random articles, websites, and viewing source code from other sites.

Codeacademy is really a great site. It can be very helpful to those who really want to learn coding.

I started off creating this awful code through Dreamweaver and even Fireworks and then I looked at the code that was being created and tidied it up using split view and saw that the layout didn't change but the code got less and less. A defining moment was when someone threw the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines at me about 10 years ago and after that I started finding out how to code semantically and scrupulously through forums and Google.

I'd never heard before about codeacademy.
I was only using w3school

html with view source and css goog tutorials and firebug since its been around.

edit: since I've known about it.

I am just learning this.

Code Academy is really cool. Thanks for sharing.

To answer the question, I learned some in high school, lots in college, but most has been by my own curiosities on how to accomplish a goal and looking up resources online and books.

Aha, an interesting thread! It's always great to learn how others did it.

I'm not going to write my life story but here are the key steps I took.

Age 11: Qbasic writing games. Pointed to QB by my step dad, learnt it by his guidance and the internet.

Age 11: Messing around with adobe pagemill to make a basic webpage. Never launched anything.

Age 13ish: Messing with pages on geocities. Still using Qbasic. Learning everything from searching the web.

Age 15ish: Moved to visual basic 6 building directX 2D strategy map builders. Never got past the map builder apps but had some wicked simulated trees and terrain lol. Still using the net to learn (just Googling specific things).

Age 15ish: Playing around with photoshop, milkshape 3D, blender 3D, 3D studio, Dark Basic

17ish: 3D studio, learning by doing and some www tutorials. Sidelined programming and www.

19ish: Boss picked up on IT skills and 'commissioned' me to learn how to build an app he wanted. Used the web to learn MS Access (shame)

19ish: Boss paid me to develop website. At this stage was learning Visual Basic .NET for the web, learning from Googling and just doing it.

21ish: Learning everything from this stage onwards by Google including WPF, VB.Net, C#.Net, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, SQL, and so on.

Key theme here is I just 'googled' everything I needed to know. I would think of a project and create the project, design the first form or page or whatever and at every stage when I got stuck I'd Google a way around it.

Occasionally following some tutorials of course! And learning lots of good stuff from many forum threads.

books, online, forums, blogs everything online

the best way to learn is through online forums, cause people can help you and it can be in forms of understandable coding

plus you can see it in action

Actually learning it starting at age 14 almost 4 years ago and I mainly used w3schools for html then I used CSS the missing manual for css learning (plus the help from the forums for random buggy problems that come up) . I started doing codeacademy but really didn't like it that much. Don't get me wrong it's great but I wanted to do Javascript by a book. ( I have watched several tutorials but books seem to cover it better). I have a little in PHP and I can do JS and PHP basics easy just not very much beyond the basics. Currently I am learning the Joomla CMS.

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This one is popular but Code Academy,is cooler!

Initially I did participate for individual classes and grasp knowledge about web designing and coding. Then I gathered some extra knowledge by referring w3 school online tutorials and websites. These are the secrets of my success.