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Starting from (just about) Zero<\/h2>\n
How do you even begin to start thinking about learning to code on your own?<\/div>\n
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The only thing that I ever really knew about HTML was how to do use the “a href” tag in the text editor in WordPress. That was it. \u00a0Seriously<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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In thinking about how I could become a website developer, and taking on my first client (hi Mom!), I knew a higher and higher skill level would be needed as I took on one, two and three more clients at a time.<\/div>\n

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[box type=”info”]Side note: this was actually when the concept for 20 Hours Ahead came into being. Like the proverb about out running a bear, I don’t have to be the best developer in the world, I just have to know how to develop more and better than my client (not that I wish my clients to be eaten by bears… *Insert new proverbial comparison here)[\/box]<\/div>\n
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At this point, I began googling quick HTML and CSS fixes and intuitively figuring some of this “coding stuff” out. I think the year of C++ programming I had in high school made this a little easier, but not by much!<\/div>\n
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However, bits and pieces of information were not going to get me anywhere. I’m a big picture person, and needed to know more of what was going on. I needed to get <meta>, as it were.<\/div>\n
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After watching this inspiring TED video<\/a>, and reading up on some popular coding<\/a> languages to learn, I followed one of the links to CodeAcademy<\/a>. It was simple, it was at my level and it was F-R-E-E!! \u00a0I signed up and immediately completed the first few lessons.<\/div>\n
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This was going to be easier than I thought (or so I thought)…<\/div>\n
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Estimated hours of learning and research: 2<\/i><\/h3>\n
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Stay tuned for what’s next!<\/div>\n

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Here’s the video that started the path…<\/h2>\n
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