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

I talk to a lot of affiliates on a daily basis and find more and more have gone to school to learn design, html, etc.

I've always been self-taught (mainly out of necessity because when i started doing this, I kind of had to bounce around and find html tutorials, design tutorials, etc.

How many of you are self-taught in a majority of what you do in this business and how many of you have gone to school or received some type of formal education/training?

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

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

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.

Self-taught here.

Have found some very good online tutorials over the years.

self tought as well

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.

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.

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.

self taught

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

:)

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.

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

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

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:)

I'm both...

Completely 100% self taught. :pimp:pimp

self taught since 98
and still learning something new everyday.

self taught, i learn all thing on works

Both here.

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.

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

i am reading books ...self taught

self taught

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)

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.

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

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

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...

100% self-taught.