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12 April 2006

AskMecha: How can one best jump into web development? In college I took a horrible course in C programming and it put me off computers. Now, looking around at all this great stuff happening on the web, I wish I had stuck with it. What do I need to do to develop a useful web development toolkits? I want to learn how to build sites like Upcoming, or interesting applications like Basecamp. Assume I'm starting from scratch. Is this something I can learn on my own from books? Are there online classes you recommend? Please hope me!

post by: nyterrant at: 12:29 | 4 comments

Ack, that had a lot of [more] that was supposed to go inside. Sorry.

posted by nyterrant 12 April | 12:30

Have you searched AskMetafilter? This question has been asked over there at least once in the past.

posted by matildaben 12 April | 13:01

Feet first, hand holding the nose closed.

But seriously, askme is full of advice on this topic. I think I've even given some there. I'm not entirely self-taught, but it wasn't my "major" either. For the record, people consider me more of a web designer where I'm at but I do a fair bit of what others would call web development and project management for that title.

My advice would be for you to try to land a job somewhere where you can learn from others and grow into what you want to do in the industry. Good Luck.

posted by safetyfork 12 April | 13:12

Hrm, you're right. It was asked 4 days ago... sorry!

posted by nyterrant 12 April | 13:14

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