Hi,
I've posted a few threads in here about coding before - and the advice has always been useful to say the least, but I'm still confused in relation to the whole 'coding scene'.
I've picked up several books in the past 2 years to aid the craving to learn. I picked up a CSS book and made decent use of that and I picked up a MySQL book and never really went past the first couple of pages, because I wasn't really 'that' interested. Or I was lazy.
It has only been recently that I've sort of discovered ASP.net and its uses - writing it in something like VisualBasic strikes me as being more appealing than Notepad - although probably still limited to 'user knowledge' as most coding is.
I've yet again got the urge to learn and I'm often coming up with (what I believe to be) good ideas for websites - with no tools or cash to ever put them even to close to being in action. It's frustrating but I can't just expect to know the languages, as people have strained over monitors (sounds wrong) for months and years trying to earn these skills.
I don't really want to go down a road that isn't populated - just how good are the lifespans and potential of the likes of ASP.net, PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, CSS and XHTML?
I don't really minding spending a bit of money (which I understand ASP.net is relative to), infact it'll probably push me to learn even more.
As for anyone who works in this profession full time, what did you find was the best method of learning? Videos? Books? Browsing? Tutorials? Let me know.
Apologies for what must be an insanely dull post - I just wish to make databased websites and want to actually go in some direction rather than doss about and learn nothing like the last two years.
Thanks for any help at all, much appreciated.
I've posted a few threads in here about coding before - and the advice has always been useful to say the least, but I'm still confused in relation to the whole 'coding scene'.
I've picked up several books in the past 2 years to aid the craving to learn. I picked up a CSS book and made decent use of that and I picked up a MySQL book and never really went past the first couple of pages, because I wasn't really 'that' interested. Or I was lazy.
It has only been recently that I've sort of discovered ASP.net and its uses - writing it in something like VisualBasic strikes me as being more appealing than Notepad - although probably still limited to 'user knowledge' as most coding is.
I've yet again got the urge to learn and I'm often coming up with (what I believe to be) good ideas for websites - with no tools or cash to ever put them even to close to being in action. It's frustrating but I can't just expect to know the languages, as people have strained over monitors (sounds wrong) for months and years trying to earn these skills.
I don't really want to go down a road that isn't populated - just how good are the lifespans and potential of the likes of ASP.net, PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, CSS and XHTML?
I don't really minding spending a bit of money (which I understand ASP.net is relative to), infact it'll probably push me to learn even more.
As for anyone who works in this profession full time, what did you find was the best method of learning? Videos? Books? Browsing? Tutorials? Let me know.
Apologies for what must be an insanely dull post - I just wish to make databased websites and want to actually go in some direction rather than doss about and learn nothing like the last two years.
Thanks for any help at all, much appreciated.
