Are you self-taught or did you go to school?

**Bruce_Miller** · 09-21-2007, 08:30 AM

HTML and Java from looking at the source code, php from digging around at php.net

**Extreme John** · 09-21-2007, 08:39 AM

I wish I went to school for php and a few others things, but the very little I know is self taught.

**EthnicLover** · 09-21-2007, 08:39 AM

100% self-taught. I've read through numerous HTML/CSS books and visited the many amazing websites like A List Apart, Site Point, CSS Zen Garden and HTML Dog. I actually got my intro to HTML on HTML Goodies. Source code has been a boon for me and continues to be.

**CDSmith** · 09-21-2007, 08:42 AM

Self-taught here.

Have found some very good online tutorials over the years.

**mattz** · 09-21-2007, 08:44 AM

self tought as well

**StuartD** · 09-21-2007, 08:45 AM

Self taught.... I picked up a Coldfusion textbook one day and figured it out.... did corporate sites until the dot-bomb and transitioned over to adult, where I had to learn PHP because Coldfusion is virtually non-existant due to it's price.

The rest, as they say, is history.

**SykkBoy** · 09-21-2007, 08:45 AM

Originally posted by CDSmith

Self-taught here.

Have found some very good online tutorials over the years.

Same here
I remember when I was first trying to figure out html, I found a great tutorial on an MIT website and printed out all of the information and just started coding and practicing and playing around with it. To this day, I still code html by hand because I'm just so used to it (and have collected thousands of templates over the years).

CNet used to have some great tools as well, including a mouseover generator that I used for years.

**1off** · 09-21-2007, 08:47 AM

100% self taught. I remember my first attempt at a webpage. I took 200k images and just resized them with the html to make my thumbs. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way.

**Chris** · 09-21-2007, 08:47 AM

self taught

**Violetta** · 09-21-2007, 08:49 AM

Bachelorsgrade... so 15 years of school. But they didnt teach me any adult stuff

**ztik** · 09-21-2007, 08:49 AM

I coded HTML by hand up until last year. I moved to dreamweaver for some of the more complex stuff. I still find my self working in the code section of it more then the interface though.

I learned just by looking at other html code. I used to see things I liked on a page and would view source then modify it. After doing this so many times you just remember the code in your head and are able to type it out.

Did the same with visual basic. I am 100% fluent in it. Too bad noone really uses it anymore.

**SykkBoy** · 09-21-2007, 08:52 AM

Originally posted by 1off

100% self taught. I remember my first attempt at a webpage. I took 200k images and just resized them with the html to make my thumbs. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way.

I think we all started out doing something like that ;-)

**Rowdy** · 09-21-2007, 08:58 AM

Self taught ... looking at source codes until they made sense back in 96/97 I think it was.

**purplehaze** · 09-21-2007, 09:01 AM

i went to university for higher education. my husband dropped out of high school, never went to college, and started teaching himself how to code.

now i'm working for him

**TheJimmy** · 09-21-2007, 09:04 AM

I'm both...

**PornMogul** · 09-21-2007, 09:04 AM

Completely 100% self taught.

**cool1** · 09-21-2007, 09:07 AM

self taught since 98
and still learning something new everyday.

**alby_persignup** · 09-21-2007, 09:11 AM

self taught, i learn all thing on works

D · 09-21-2007, 09:16 AM

Both here.

**eroswebmaster** · 09-21-2007, 09:16 AM

Self taught, and it shows. There are kids out there who have been doing the same thing I do for less time, but with their schooling, can work 10x's faster.

**12clicks** · 09-21-2007, 09:26 AM

if it wasn't for WYSIWYG, the parts of the internet that I invented wouldn't currently exist.

**GAMEFINEST** · 09-21-2007, 09:26 AM

i am reading books ...self taught

**G-Rotica** · 09-21-2007, 09:42 AM

self taught

**martinsc** · 09-21-2007, 09:44 AM

everything i know i learned by myself (with lots of help from google and a good friend of mine that is a real hardcore programmer)

**jonesonyou** · 09-21-2007, 09:46 AM

Me have not education. Is that bad? I found that going into debt to have a degree is not a successful business plan. I would like to take classes to learn more than I know. I will not do this unless I have the cash to pay for the classes.

**Donfoolio** · 09-21-2007, 09:52 AM

Self taught, sadly. I want to go to school for a lot of things though

**woj** · 09-21-2007, 09:58 AM

went to school, but really most of the stuff I do has been self taught...

**SykkBoy** · 09-21-2007, 10:07 AM

I went to school and studied marketing, so I guess I do have some of that I apply to what I do daily...although they don't really teach you how to sell pussy in school...

**fallenmuffin** · 09-21-2007, 10:08 AM

100% self-taught.

Are you self-taught or did you go to school?

Are you self-taught or did you go to school?

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