My god, the O'Reilly book is possibly the most tedious book I ever tried to
finish. (I didn't.) Reading a book is only a fraction as good as setting a
goal for yourself and trying to attain it. Hands-on experience is key.
It takes a long time (many months) to become proficient. It's gotta sink
into your head slowly. Just stick with it, and know that it's going to be
extremely frustrating sometimes. I think a programmer's most important
personality trait is tenacity.
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:20:48AM -0800, Jason Willer wrote:
> Howdy Folks,
>
> I'm dreading posting this to the list, but I can't stand it any longer.
So please, any responses should be directed to my email and not the list.
By doing so, you don't clutter the list with responses to my borderline
DynAPI question.
>
> I've been lurking Dan's original Forum (now defunct) and this list for
about 4 months now and am amazed at the expertise you guys/gals show with
DHTML and DynAPI. My question is how did you learn all of this stuff and
how can I do so also? I'm what I consider a book programmer with no
practical experience. But, as you well know, reading a book doesn't mean
you're a programmer! I can read O'Reilly's JavaScript book and Dan's
tutorial all day long and run through the examples, but that doesn't do
"jack" for me in becoming a *real* programmer. As a matter of fact, I have
so many books, my entire department thinks I'm the Technical Library. Yet,
I can still only right "toddler" code.
>
> I want to be able to do the practical things you guys do with the DynAPI,
but don't know how to get there. I would ultimately love to be able to
write a MenuList widget for DynAPI 2, but don't have a clue where to start.
Please...could anyone give me some direction...oh great Guru's?
>
> Humbly
> Hopeless (Jason W.)
>
> P.S. I have a version of Dan's v1 MenuList running on a website, but
that's only because you guys did all of the work! I can read part of the
code and then I get stuck at certain points. Thus the need for this post.
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