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How many years it took you to become web developer?

by satz27
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I'm from India. And i am passionate towards Graphic & Web design and Web development. The more i wait the more i like it. I love to be in this field.
Now i have joined Web Development course.

So, How many years did that take you to become a complete Web Developer??

Plz share your xperience, and make me to admire more n more.
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  • Profile picture of the author sahilwb
    It depends on you how quickly you learn and take interest. Explore more website about web designing and get more and more tips there. Remember "Practice makes a man perfect". Best of luck
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  • Profile picture of the author gtownfunk
    I've been doing web development since about 1994. Prior to that I did development on some BBS software. Since I was a young teenager, I have had a pretty steady string of products out on the market while also developing some professional subscription based websites... one of which (GalleryWatch.com) got a big feature article written about it in Forbes magazine. One of my products (WindMail) got listed in Information Week What's Hot.

    In development you can't be afraid to do something new, but you also can't be afraid to offer a solution to an everyday problem. As you develop more and more, you'll see more problems that are normal and you can develop solutions for. It is rewarding and fun. Good luck!

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    • Profile picture of the author barbling
      Originally Posted by gtownfunk View Post

      I've been doing web development since about 1994.
      Me too - that's when Mozilla 1.0 came out!

      And lynx...oh, now *that* was a browser....

      Prior to that I did development on some BBS software. Since I was a young teenager, I have had a pretty steady string of products out on the market while also developing some professional subscription based websites... one of which (GalleryWatch.com) got a big feature article written about it in Forbes magazine. One of my products (WindMail) got listed in Information Week What's Hot.

      In development you can't be afraid to do something new, but you also can't be afraid to offer a solution to an everyday problem. As you develop more and more, you'll see more problems that are normal and you can develop solutions for. It is rewarding and fun. Good luck!

      Ben Camp


      What Ben says...so true!

      You have to give yourself permission to success and offer where you can help. It can simply grow from there.
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberSEO
      Originally Posted by DEaFeYe View Post

      Only inexperienced developers ever think they are "complete"
      Exactly. Just want to add that it applies to any discipline from cooking to rocket science.

      I sold my first commercial software application in 1991 and thought I was a rather good coder. After all these years passed from that time I can say that your final goal gets farther and farther away with every step you do.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Ac
    Originally Posted by satz27 View Post

    I'm from India. And i am passionate towards Graphic & Web design and Web development. The more i wait the more i like it. I love to be in this field.
    Now i have joined Web Development course.

    So, How many years did that take you to become a complete Web Developer??

    Plz share your xperience, and make me to admire more n more.
    More than a life time...
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  • Profile picture of the author lovenot
    You can never become a complete Web Developer. Technology is always improving, always growing, always expanding. You may know everything now but if you don't follow through and continue learning, in a few years' time, things will become obsolete.

    Answering your question, it took me 3 years to get to where I am now. However, despite the numerous amount of projects I have completed, I'd say that I'm still learning.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ajay Tiwari
    Web development is a field where you learn something new on daily basis because nothing remains same here.. You can become a normal web developer in just few months by doing continuous practice and keep learning but complete one it is hard to say. Few years before there were no apps but now everything is running on apps. Now a days people like custom development and whenever you will work on custom development you learn new things whether you are a newbie or a experienced developer.
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  • Profile picture of the author murrad
    I was coding from 2001 and still learning many new things and techniques.
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    • Profile picture of the author mgkimsal
      Started in early 1996, and felt *comfortable* with the basics of HTML after a few weeks (there wasn't much to know back then!) and felt *capable* (though not a master) of server side concepts (PHP/Perl) after a few more weeks. Felt a bit more about the basics of mSQL after another couple months, so after 4-6 months I felt *capable* of taking ideas and making them happen on the web.

      As others have said, you're never "complete", but I felt reasonably sure of myself (as in, if I didn't know something, I at least understood how to ask the question of someone who did know) within a year, and pretty confident in my ability to tackle projects in about 2 years.

      Does that help at all?
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  • Profile picture of the author minisite
    Platforms are continuously changing on the regular basis and there are always new tricks you can always learn and apply. It just depends on the person and their skills to become a web developer.
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  • Profile picture of the author wilianto
    I spend 1 year to be a web developer, but I need more time to be a profesional
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  • Profile picture of the author SupporTech
    It's more than a lifetime, the question is how long would you ever take to learn a single language and master it? hmmm...
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    • Profile picture of the author blogginm8
      Originally Posted by SupporTech View Post

      It's more than a lifetime, the question is how long would you ever take to learn a single language and master it? hmmm...
      I agree if that lifetime equals to learning for life concept... in the end most languages are the same and if you know 2-3 then you just get to know what's the difference in new one and it's ready... can be done in 1 month 8 hours a day to mastery. at least if it's just 'language style/commands' reframing (took me like one week to finally break habit of occasionally typing freaking ; while switching from php to python when i code while drinking ).

      it takes more to get deeper in a certain language and get the best of it. programming is conceptual thing - first you design in your mind and it's not so important if you use english or c to write it down.... i guess it won't work if you use english in notepad

      learned html when i was 15, c when i was 16, 18 php (as my friend say "that ancient language"), then i was doing porn sites for long time and then traveling then i learned jscript with jquery etc. and now i'm into python and i love it - i'm 25 now and i'm still learning...

      btw. i learn russian now, but i guess it's out of web development
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      • Profile picture of the author gtownfunk
        That's the thing, you will never stop learning. There is no set target for being done. Everything changes so fast, often times it's just a matter of doing something cool. Way back before people were doing AJAX I had a persistent checkbox feature called the clipboard. People could run all kinds of searches and check the items of interest, then put them on various tracking reports en masse. Same with roller search result item based context menus. People ate that up, nobody was doing it but it made their lives so much easier and their workflow faster. There is no end, but don't get caught always playing catch-up.

        Learn something _new_. Then you are an artist, a pioneer.. as small as that something might be.
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  • Profile picture of the author pfreelancer
    There is no such thing as an expert. I started programming on a Commodore 64 because it had no disk drive that I picked up at a garage sale for $5. Ever since then, I have been hooked. I took some computer classes in high school, but I realized that I could not learn anything from them when my teacher was asking for my help with his programs. I am completely self-taught. I got my BS in computer science just so I would have that paper that says i Know what I know. The same thing went for my MBA, for me the best way to learn is to do. If i were hiring someone to work for me, I would not look at their transcripts from a school, I would look at their experince, and you get experience from doing. In this field, you never stop learning, and that is part of what draws me to it. Having a few classes under your belt is a good thing, but real world experience is much better. Good luck with your classes and I hope to see you out there.
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    It only took me a few months of studying to have enough knowledge to put together HTML pages for money. It only took a few years of experience to become a senior level developer. Now I'm a junior developer again. Still waiting for "completion"
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  • Profile picture of the author jmartinez
    It's hard to say how long it took to become a web developer since I never sat down and said that I was going to do a certain amount of training and then get into the field. It was more casual than that.

    I was a Computer Science student in the mid 90s (somewhere between 94-95) and that's when I starting doing web stuff. Mostly because I could add html to my homepage that I had from the geocities chat portal. I kept working on other projects for fun and then landed a day job as a web developer after I graduated from college around 1999.
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