Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Back in the Day: How I Learnt to Code HTML in a 3 Days

How I learnt to Code HTML in a 3 Days
HTML is one of the simplest web markup languages anyone who wants to create a successful business online, should bother to learn. For me it was a crash course that I remember today after years of learning this skill. 

I was new online and I got a job to write content but put HTML tags so that the content would be published easily by the client. For me HTML was a jargon I heard previously about but kept away from it since I did not think it was necessary to learn. So how can you follow my steps and learn to code some basic HTML in a week or so.

I researched online for free tutorials and ended up at W3Schools I must say I have not seen any other online programming school that offers the simplicity of learning ‘conc’ stuff like W3 School does. 

I got my notepad ready and began with the simple tags before moving to complex stuff; appreciate the small moves you make. If you can move a block from left to right then you are making progress. Keep going, stopping is what makes you stuck.
Look for relevant videos on YouTube; they played a great role in making me a good programmer. Make W3 School your reference but learn from You Tube videos…there are great tutorials freely available out there.
Today, I must have written thousands of scripts but I still remember my first block of code and making it display on a browser, the awesome feeling before I discovered Dreamweaver could even do it better! 
Learning on your own requires :
  • Know the best place to learn online about a skill i.e Html, CSS, Python etc...
  • Be dedicated to learning
  • Do it daily until you perfect , I used to write code even on paper daily…I was so intoxicated then and I see the results of my effort today!
  • Don’t read do it practically, W3 Schools provides you with a great way to try any code online.
  • Appreciate your progress and do something to make it better.
  • Work with something practical never try to be a theoretical coder, you will not go far with theory you have to try things out to see if they work!
  • Appreciate bugs are good for learning and sometimes it does not have to work for you to learn and become better!
  • If you are in School you got to realize what you learn in class is too little for the world of coding out here, you will learn a lot on your own and from others
  • So you too can be a student of Google and You Tube and be better in your programming. 
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How I learnt to Code HTML in 3 Days

Back in the Day: How I learnt to Code HTML in a 3 Days

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