Hey, I just wondered how people cope with trying to remember all the different syntax's of all the languages? I have learnt HTML and CSS and now I am working on JavaScript, PHP and Perl but I just wonder how much I am expected to really remember of a language, I mean I know it is good to have a book reference always but is that all you use to remember it all?
best way to remember is to have script libraries and note down what it achieves, that way you only have to do it once and remember basics and syntax and stretch yourself when it is required for a purpose. most things can be done with the basics anyway unless you want to code something like never done before.
Google is your friend Once you have the fundamentals down its not that difficult, the guts of most languages are all the same. Use the online resources when you get stuck. The php.net site is absolutely fantastic! Id never get anything done without it hehe
Most "Pros" will not remember absolutally everything because they will specialise in back or front end and only have a high level knowledge of the other and then for backend they will typically only do at most a couple of languages. The people who try and learn 10 different back end languages plus html, javascript, flash, actionscript, css etc are typically much more hobbiests/ semi-pro
Well at the moment I am spending 14 hours pretty much everyday learning and working on the web, I take it seriously but are you suggesting it is not a good idea to learn so many languages? Currently I know XHTML/CSS very well, I am on a course which is teaching me Flash, JavaScript, Perl and heck loads of other things like server management, databases and so on, it is a course to be a qualified "Web Design Manager" if that makes sense to anyone. Something I am not being taught but am also learning is Photoshop as without it your sites are always gonna look bad. Finally, I am choosing to learn PHP and then AJAX because I would like to know these languages. My course really covers so much thta I have not listed but just from this you can see I am learning a fair bit.
AJAX Isn't a language. Most people *THINK* they know HTML and CSS very well, but still need to read the specifications because most of the time they don't use the right elements to markup their content (caused by reading some half assed 1999 HTML tutorials). I hope you're learning unobtrusive Javascript, because most courses teach that oldschool bullshit and the teachers don't keep up with technologies themselves... so you're learning what they learned 5-7+ years ago. I regret not taking a programming course in high school (no college yet)... could've been so much better than I am now.. but I'm learning all these things from working firsthand. I'd say I'm at the professional level front-end wise (layouts, semantic markup.. but not yet at the beyond pro level like Dan Schulz or deathshadow... yet). Gotta brush up on my JS/DOM Scripting skills though.