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<h1 style="text-align: center;">advice from a self taught web developer to ...</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;saw this question on quora and being a self taught web developer, i thought i would weigh in with my 2c</li>
<li>] I am writing this&nbsp;from the perspective of, If&nbsp;i could&nbsp;go back to the&nbsp;beginning and start over again, how would i do thing differently&nbsp;</li>
<li>] I really like <a href="http://www.quora.com/Michael-Ryan-Soileau" target="_blank">Michael-Ryan-Soileaul</a> answer, i think that he&nbsp;hits many of the key points(1,4,5 ) but I also think that ....</li>
<li>] there are some key points he doesnt touch on,</li>
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<h2>[10 tips from Michael]</h2>
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<li><strong>]&nbsp;learn the basics</strong></li>
<li>] read other peoples code</li>
<li>] learn to write clean code</li>
<li>] Nothing beats actually doing things</li>
<li>]&nbsp;Don't worry about what's hot.</li>
<li>] There is no "best" language</li>
<li>] Focus on one language and learn it thoroughly</li>
<li>]&nbsp;There are parts of programming you won't like.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] There's always better programmers than you.</li>
<li>] Make time to refactor</li>
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<h2>[and a few points from me]</h2>
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<li><strong>] your goal </strong></li>
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<li>] why are you doing this?</li>
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<li><strong>]&nbsp;learn the basics</strong></li>
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<li>1] what are the basics? - &nbsp; the basics should include 1] html, 2] css&nbsp; 3] 'programming in 4] javascript.</li>
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<li><strong>] learn by doing</strong></li>
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<li>] write some code, learn something new, write some more code, repeat</li>
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<li><strong>] learn from others</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;#2] read other peoples code</li>
<li>] ?] learn to write clean code</li>
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<li><strong>] learning to program</strong></li>
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<li>]</li>
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<li><strong>] javascript is the best programming language</strong><ol>
<li>] for web developers, to learn first,</li>
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<li><strong>] your second language, choose an established server side language </strong></li>
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<li>] 1 of the great things about programming languages, is that once you've got the 'fundamentels of programming', it is relatively easy to port those fundamentals&nbsp;to another&nbsp;language. &nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] DRY</strong></li>
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<li>] Dont Repeat Yourself - if you find yourself solving the same problem over and over again, your likely doing something wrong.&nbsp;Libraries, components routines</li>
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<li><strong>] platform choices</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] chasing the next big thing in web development</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] focus</strong></li>
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<li>] &nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] realize</strong></li>
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<li>] this is just the beginning, you will be continually learning and adapting, we havent even touched on many of the fundamentals necessary to get a functional website up and running. Persistence (aka database development, access and maintenance), performance, security, development frameworks, libraries, tools, http are all 'subjects' that you will</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] programming is ...</strong></li>
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<li>] hard</li>
<li>] it doesn't appeal to everyone</li>
<li>] you will get frustrated</li>
<li>]&nbsp;it takes a significant investment of time and mental energy&nbsp;to learn properly and to fully understand</li>
<li>] you don't have to be an expert programmer to write functional code</li>
<li>] just because your not a programmer doesnt mean that you can't be a web developer, wd is a mult faceted industry with</li>
<li>] debugging code</li>
<li>] there are many * many different ways to do the same thing</li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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