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Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsLittle Bit COnfused with programming
Hi there! So as i was going in forums etc.. It seem strange to me . My questoin is : Can i learn how to make a facebook-like website , and learn how to do apps like "Flappy Birds" or " Facebook App Like" ? Because i want to know how to do websites , and then actualy get full in apps on mobile phones and of course every cople of months uptade my skills on websites . It this possibile? Im 17 years . I know HTML CSS shought im still learning new things obeviously like media queries are new tome and fluid content so im doing that now and after that i want to go on JS and PHP or Ruby on Rails so i can make a database . After that i want to go and make apps . I dont care how long it will take to learn it because my vision is before 26years and 31. SO by that time , well faster is it possibile to learn webcoding and app coding? i hope my question is clerad : P I really appriciate it if somebody reply :)
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Vlatko .
2,526 PointsYeah, you can learn how to make a Facebook-like website, but you won't learn how to do it in a month, or maybe even a year. If your goal is to develop websites and apps like Facebook by 26, or 31 years old, you have plenty of time to learn how to do it and I'm sure you can get to that level. The key thing to do is practice a lot while you are learning. At 17 years old, you have plenty of time to learn a lot.
My advice is, pick one thing to learn, and learn that first. When you feel comfortable with it and can use it to make things, move onto something new. Right now you said you know HTML/CSS, so move into learning about responsive web design like media queries. You can learn anything you want, the only thing you need is time, and at your age, you have plenty of time to learn. Good luck!
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsThank you very much! Yes , i do have a lot of time , especialy in summer , all day so i want to make a use of it and learn how to make interactive websites . Im glad i can learn how to make websites facebook-like and apps :) Do you think its good to learn like 3-5h per day ? i mean will the things get to the head? in a nice way : P or its just practice practice practice? because i dont remember all when i do flexy layout etc.. but i could do my website layout if i look at how he did it so thats practice right? so if i do like 10 times that , i repetat 10 tiems the code he did , not coping all but copy and knowing the logic of it is thats useful to learn ? I mean the sorcut to faster success is to fail twice because if you fail once its slower than twice and does this wotk in programming too ? if i do it like 10 times in a day will i get this in like 70% to my head ? or that comes up with days to learn short lines of codes ?
Well , what is the best way to learn? well i know there isnt but what would you sugest if i have like 24/7 free? for the next 2 months? Because its quite hard to learn it a bit in a way saying that i dont have a desktop and i well do it in bed witch i get quite tired and then i play games , i do sport regulaty . My dayly life looks and it will look for the next two months like that: I usualy wake up and go on pc from like 08:00 to 16:00 and in that time i learn most of the time , not like non stop but i do . Then i go to gym and swimming for about 3.5h and after when i come back i play games on pc for the rest of the day .
Oh and you know what i find really frustrated or that may be wrong word, its that i did like 30 webpages in a fixed positino , no flexy layouts and now i need to re-learn it again and i find it hard because i was mowin to JS and i know the basics some of them and how they work and here , in teamtreehouse , i need to do they layout again , i really like it so that motivates me what i can do and well my visoin/goal before 26 or 31 , depends how things will go . While im learning CSS flexy layout ,can i learn JS? because i need to get more solid understand of all that in CSS flexy layout