Originally Posted by tical

learn yourself

i always buy a book... read the first 5 or 6 chapters through and do the projects they give... by the time you're that far in you can pretty much give yourself a small "real world project" and have enough understanding of what you're using to be able to use the book as a reference

and if you need pointers / help www.experts-exchange.com for 9 bucks a month is awesome