How did you start?

So how did you start in the web industry, i think it would be good to see how many people came from an education into web development and who were self-taught.

My personal situation is self-taught from day one, i believe this is the best way to go about things, instead of being force fed information, paying money and taking tests. I am guessing most people are self-taught on web applications and development because of the interest factor. A few surveys i have done before show that people first start out on the internet on a few websites that really grasp there interest, then later wonder how the websites work etc. Expanding there knowledge all the time.

So I see self-teaching the best method for learning if you have a genuine interest, whats your thoughts?

 

Everything I know I have learnt from free online resources. So self taught.

 

self taught. Everything i know is done by self-taght.

Google was my friend

 

Another self-taught here. Everything I know and do on computer is self-taught.

 

Yea most people are

 

Education is crap and they don'tr learn you nothing good

All i know i learned by myself even english

 

I got into this whole thing when i was a kid so then i decided to get an A level in IT and now I'm at uni doing Internet management and web design. But to be honest, i end up teaching my lecturers when it comes to specific subjects because quite frankly i have much more experience than they do.

 

A mixture of both. More of the former than the latter though.

 

Free coupon from GoDaddy for a free domain.

 

I do everything myself

On Web Develope .. yet not Pro but learning

 

I am self taught, never had a computer background in collage before and I learned all wht I know here in DP

 

Im self taught

LOL w3bmaster is banned.... again!

 

Self-taught
but I actually started from PTR - Paid to Read - 7 years ago maybe

 

I am self taught, but started trying at affiliate programs, failed miserably and then started making and developing sites

 

I started learning html/css/some php by myself in high school and now i'm at university doing it all, although I learn a lot more from teaching myself than I do at university, just doing it for the degree really.

 

i'm going at a university of computers and every teacher here is an old guy that doesn't know a thing about javascript, what's "SEO" and stuff like that. i always argue with them because i feel a lot smarter!

but meh, Bill Gates and the guys from Google quit uni and went really big in Top Forbes.

 

You're tool.