My recommendation: self-taught route

"Rome was not built in a day"

If you are dedicated enough to devote ample time to learn web development, I would certainly suggest self-taught route.

During my initial years, I used to build a website in a day, delete it at the end of the day and start on a new one the next day. The emphasis here is not much on building, but on the experience that you gain while building. "Its not the destination that matters, its the journey". Recently, I read a blog about a developer using the same technique - Jennifer Dewalt | 180 Websites

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Let's start off with a question. Given the following code sample:

What do you think the call to foo() will return ?

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Recently coming out of my education, I have the following points to add, since I got educated in Mumbai, my views are mostly are from an urban point of view. These are the most general things I have found in our education system.

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According to me, mathematics was neither discovered nor invented, but rather observed.

If you think of Mathematics as a formal documentation of formulae or proofs, then they are discovered. My definition of Mathematics includes not only documentation but also application, and application can be done without formal knowledge of mathematical theorems or proofs but by sheer observations in the surroundings.

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The initial API for Google+ was released on 15th September, 2011. But, this API currently supports only public data, and user data (which can be accessed from any web application or web site). However, there no support for building Google+ applications. It follows a RESTful API design and provides OAuth2.0 for authentication.

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Many friends of mine have questions and doubts regarding the “Specialized Syntax based Query Building” system. They would, however, prefer the “Form-based Query Building”. Why do we need such a system, when the conventional system is working fine ? Why does the user have to type a “Specialized Syntax”, can’t he just use SQL ? and many more questions arise. Lets consider the following scenario:

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Originally, I used to call it “Natural Language to SQL Translator”, but I guess what I intend to do at this point of time is not Natural Language, it is rather a specialized syntax, which I guess can be further extended to natural language. Let me make a thing clear, about the system :

• It is something which the user sees, and types a query in, it has nothing to do with the data-related operations in a database.
• The only time it deals with data, is when the result-set is generated and given back to the system, so that it can be post-processed into a better manner.

Hence, its sole purpose is, to help user (end-user/client/power user/reporters) query the database and to give the user a better presentation of the result-set.

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Blogging after quite sometime, again. I just don’t know what happens to me when I am regularly blogging !? I guess it gets monotonous and then I break the monotony.

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