Funny enough, I started with ASP, and I made the choice to assume that ASP would be the popular choice for web sites.

It was actually a very helpful process in learning PHP when I just converted ASP to PHP in a few small projects.

So, PHP is what? Chopped liver?

Comment your code. Add explanations for why you did what you did, and perhaps add TODO: comments for future updates, sanitation, cheat detection, and up-scaling.

You could also put any duplicate code in it's own procedure or function, and call it when you need to. That way if you want to change or edit it, or only have to do it in one place.

You'll know you're a coder when more fun to code the game than it is to play it. Good luck!

I guess the paragraph tag changes the position of the text, but whatever the intention, it is the wrong way to do it.

Modern firefox will close the paragraph tag before the end of the header tag. I remember stuff like that affecting your whole page if it happened to you, especially when using Internet Explorer.

I don't think I have ever seen anyone use a semi-colon to separate attributes in an tag, and I didn't notice until I wrote it out but it is also missing an equal sign.

<table with "100%; align="center">

You're right. Just don't be scared of math. Depending on what you are doing, someone else has probably already solved the problem of figuring out an expression that will do what you need.

Also, I guess it depends on what area of programming you want to go into, as gaming and anything to do with physics might require a bit of unique math related problem solving skills, where as building a word processing application might have very little unique math.

If one has the capability to learn, one has the capability to learn a little bit about logic and reasoning. The inability to learn is a completely different issue.

To be honest, everyone should learn to code, at least a little. It has a lot to do with math, but most importantly it has even more to do with logic and reasoning. If those skills can be transferred into everyone's daily life, it would benefit society.

Never think about the new developer, that way, we will become obsolete before cobol.

Soon, you'll learn all users are retards, and not necessarily on purpose.

Everyone always builds for expanding.

Just build a simple, functional site that allows additions of modules by programmers, if, and when the time comes.

Not every site needs a third party CMS.

It was wrong to put a brand above it's name. People tend to have a distaste for conglomerates. Especially when it comes to microsoft growth.

Unless they have a secret weapon, which I don't know what it could be.

“We are buying GitHub because we like GitHub; our plan is to continue to invest in the GitHub roadmap, and make GitHub better at being GitHub,” Friedman wrote.

Such a worthless statement. If you like something, you shouldn't demand to own it, you should partner with it. Microsoft has fucked itself and github over with this acquisition.

Only bad and negative press can come from future events of any failures at github, and it will be blamed on the microsoft direction. Especially anything to do with privacy. That is the one thing that will make not only developers take notice and turn away, but consumers and customers as well.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3629849/throwing-argumentnullexception-in-constructor

This is really neat. I wonder how much ram his system has.

and the other 3.8% identified as mentally retarded.

I chortled.

Learning Programming is a lesson in Logic and Troubleshooting. In essence, it teaches you patience and problem solving skills.

It's like Math. You don't use it at every job, but the lessons and practices that Math class teaches you are used in everyday life.