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Start by learning how to modify the default Wordpress theme for your blog.


Will be on it, just wanted to post right out the gate of making the blog. I guess you can say I'm training myself to not be embarrassed of looks for the MVP if I ever have a startup.


Looks (user experience) are very important. Apple didn't get to twice the size of Microsoft with shitty looks.


what does that have to do with programming may I ask?


That's how you learn programming. I started off editing HTML I copied and pasted from someone and just changing some colors.


While thats where many people start, its worth noting that its really a markup language that lacks core programming concepts (if statements, loops, etc...) Not that it isn't helpful!

And as a relatively amusing anecdote, I started teaching myself HTML when I was 8 or 9, when my family had gotten our first Windows PC. I had no idea what copy/paste was, yet somehow I knew how to view source and ended up handwriting out HTML and then retyping it into Geocities (yep. Geocities). Thats one way to never forget it ;)


Yeah, same here. It was super easy to do in the 90s too. Prodigy homepage builder and I just went from there. Good times.


Why is this good advice? It isn't the only way to learn programming, so why is it better than others?




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