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C.Austin ([personal profile] mykindofgeek) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev 2013-03-05 02:16 pm (UTC)

Hi!

1. No, but I'd like to be. :) In November I followed all the step-by-step instructions for getting started, but I got lost at the 'pick a bug' phase. I don't know which bug to pick or how I would go about working on it once it has been chosen.

2. I'm not sure. I'd like to do something that would help me learn Perl or Javascript. Right now the only thing I have a really solid grasp of is HTML and CSS, but solving CSS issues doesn't really inspire me very much.

3. General newbie skittishness. Step-by-step instructions are easy enough, but right now I feel like I'm in a fog bank and I can't see an obvious way forward.

4. I'm in my first year of a two year IT certificate program. I feel like I am being taught intro level things over and over and over again and that there's a giant hurdle between intro level course work and real work and I don't know how to get myself over it. I feel like it's the difference between looking at a map vs. going for a walk.

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