My ongoing education in the field of front-end web development is steadily moving forward. It’s a maddening experience at times, but I’m enjoying the minor victories amongst the mandatory expletives as I search for that elusive missing character.
I’m loving the challenge of mastering, which is at times, a pretty complex field. I keep on saying to myself the hour-long search to debug a broken site is productive time. I’m storing up a memory bank of solutions to common, often repeated mistakes when building a web page. A huge source of comfort remains the web community, who are on hand to assist when I’m pulling my hair out.
How the pioneers of the web learnt their trade without the aid of Google and all the numerous sources on the web is completely unfathomable to me. I guess it was a relatively small number of computer geeks, working away in splendid isolation to somehow put together a functioning web page. Nowadays, you don’t have to be a nerd to work in web development, but I guess it helps.
I’m getting to know where I need to go to find a solution to my problems. There is always a solution (that’s what I keep on telling myself) and there are people out there who are happy to assist and demonstate a great deal of patience in answering my plea for help. The fact that there are vastly experience developers out there who patrol the forums and offer constructive, clear and prompt advice never ceases to amaze me.
It is slow going on occasions, but I am making progress. It’s a never ending learning experience. Dare I say it, but even JavaScript is not the confusing monster which caused sleepless nights in the past.