robert3353

Hello, sorry I saw your email address, I had this thread on my watch list here and got an email from W3G. I wish I had not seen it now I have to make a trip up to Dunkin Dough Nuts to get some. You see Jelly are my favorites. LOL

Hello all,I am Robert and am very new to all of this but want to learn, I am interested in learning XHTML, CSS, PHP, and possibly some other scripting lanuages. I see from reading all of the posts here I am a lot older than most of you, the last time I tried to learn any coding was almost at the dawn of computers. The PC was not even invented yet, the C programming language had not been yet been released and the only languages offered at the university I attended were Fortran IV and Cobol, that was back in 1971 and boy have things changed. The way they were teaching programming was pretty lame, they did not have just a programming course by itself but was bundled with statistics. You had to write a Fortran program that would do your statistics home work for the week so you first had to understand completely your statistics before even having a chance to write a program for it. Everything was typed on IBM keypunch cards and then you would take your stack of cards down to the computer lab on campus and if you were lucky you might be able to get 2 runs in a week, as you were competing with hundreds of other people for computer time. I do not know what mainframe computer they were using but I bet that the average PC used today exceeds its power many times over. Hopefully I will be more successful this time around.I am retired from a career in aviation now but have many different interests and dabbling with my computer being the main one. I am a life long learner and am always trying to learn new things especially when it comes to computers. My first pc was a Commodore Amiga 1000 that I bought back in 1986 my next computer was an IBM compatible purchased back in 1995. Back then I did not know much about computers, especially if they stopped working correctly. Since then I have learned how to build my own systems, set up networking and currently enjoy doing graphics on my pc. I run a multi boot system with my primary OS now being Linux. This is probably one of the reasons for my interest in learning web development as I also want to learn shell scripting so I can move to the next level of capabilities with the use and administration of Linux. The other reason is the hope that I will be successful enough with web development to supplement my retirement income with something I enjoy doing.I hope to get to know some of youBye for now,Robert