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Name: Steven Bradley
Location: Boulder, Colorado
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Matt and Sylvia, I'm not sure how many universities have courses geared toward web programming. Something tells me it's not a lot, but I don't really know for certain.
I started by taking a few continuing education classes, but mostly I just learned it on my own. I read some books, learned from tutorials online, and mostly started building my own sites.
Matt I did the same thing as you and looked at jobs and noticed the skills they wanted. You'll find that there are generally two camps the Microsoft camp which is going to want you to know asp, .net, mssql and the open source camp which will lean towards php and mysql.
Both sides will want html, css, javascript, xml.
It seems like you already have a good start and just need more experience with the languages. The best part about the ones you know is they're all free.
I just built a few sites for friends and some for myself and at some point decided I did it well enough that I could charge people to build sites for them. I started with a friend and together we built a site and looked for clients. She went off to do other things and I kept at it with a new site.
I won't tell anyone not to get an education, because I think there's a lot of things you learn by going to college. Some have nothing to do with classrooms either. But I think most people working on the web are really self taught.
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