New Guy w/ a ?

Hi everyone,

I stumbled across the forums while browsing on my computer at video game programming class. I was very excited to find out how busy these forums are!

Anyhow, to the question...

I am greatly interested in web design/programming in general. So Im trying to get even more involved any way I can. I just wanted to know if this is a good place to look for a sort of "apprenticeship" in this field of work.

I currently have a basic knowledge of C+ and HTML. Im in a video game programming class at Timken Senior High School in Canton, Ohio. Every day we learn more and more which is a huge help but I really want to dig in to this kind of work and get a head start. I plan on majoring in this field next year, so i hope things like this will help.

If Im in the complete wrong area, and you think I should just shut up, let me know!! I just need to know if I can find anything like that here.

Thanks a lot!
-Tj Bowman

Hey TJ,

I've never really heard of apprenticeships, but I'm hardly well placed in web design networks. Perhaps someone with more experience would be able to point you to something.

Personally, I've always been a fan of learning by doing. The way I initially learned web design and development was to start working on projects. If you don't have anyone who wants a free site from someone who doesn't yet know what they're doing, then design a site for yourself (even if you don't want one). If you're wanting to learn web development, pick something simple that you'd like to see a site do and then create something that does it.

Even if your early projects never make it to the web (sometimes it's better if they don't ), the learning experience will be well worth it.

There are also loads of tutorials and so forth around the web about designing, and lots of great blogs and so forth that talk about good design practices and whatnot. Starting to read those just to be aware of the issues that are out there for web designers isn't a bad start.

Good luck!

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