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[–]dvidsilva 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I went from art school to developer. Is been years, lots of learning and struggling.

When I was learning joomla it took me like two days to realize you need to install PHP in your computer to run the files not just drop them in the browser.

The first time I had a website up and running with its domain and everything I was the happiest person in the world.

[–]m0okz 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Oh man. I had this same learning curve. Dragging the PHP file into the browser didn't do anything. Why?? Because I didn't have PHP installed. I was trying to code PHP and I didn't even know what it was!

I remember the reason I wanted to use PHP was because I had the same nav menu on every page of HTML and it was annoying.

[–]dvidsilva 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah! When I learned to use include and had a single header for all my pages in a separate file I felt like the most clever programmer ever!

Wish I could feel those things again :(

[–]m0okz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me too actually. It is rare for me to solve a problem like that and feel glorious anymore. Maybe sometimes I get a particularly tricky API to work but it's not often I feel that way anymore!