First Project A jump from READING to DOING
Whatsup HN!
Hope a good portion of you is reading this. My friend and I just recently had an urge in our stomach to actually MAKE something. We've been reading for the last several months and just got tired of coming up with ideas for fun. Besides, it's all in the execution right?!
This is a pretty functional version of our website. It's far from anything spectacular and is certainly not even what we envisioned in our minds, but hey it basically works. It's our first attempt at making something. YUP!
We are very interested in programming, hacking, and making applications and websites. The problem is we have essentially zero experience or background with any of this material. Lacking someone technical we want to work with, it's become clear to us that we have to learn how to make things ourselves. Even if we do happen to work with a technical whiz in the future, we figure understanding some programming can only help.
We figured one of the best ways to learn was to have a project and dive right in. Over the past week, we've learned an incredible amount in making this website. Every problem we hit was frustrating, but they've served as great teaching tools. A week and a half ago, simply navigating the database was a challenge. But along the way we've learned some basic HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, and MYSQL. Obviously, there's still millions for us to learn. We really love this stuff, and actually working on something helps both solidify the abstract coding and make things even more exciting. To us, the next step is clear - doing another project. We'd love to hear your guys' take on this approach and our website in general. Any tips or pointers on making websites, order of languages to learn, good coding practices, blogs to follow, or just straight up advice on anything would be greatly appreciated. Also, we welcome any criticisms to our code since we have only had a week or two of knowledge under our belt.
Thanks Break things and move fast!!
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