How long it will take me to become a web designer and web programmer?

I don't want to discourage you from pursuing your dreams, but becoming a developer isn't an easy task. It's a long road from "Hello World" to developing professional sites. Nevertheless, people of any age get 2- or 4-year degrees and get hired immediately, but usually not with the expectancy that they'll be anything great right out of school. Unless you can show some credibility, by creating a portfolio of work you've done for clients, it's going to be hard to gain the trust of clients and/or an employer. It's best to start working on real projects as soon as possible. You should absolutely attend school if you can. You'll use a focused approach to learning, instead of having to guess what you should be learning. You could just look at a CS/IT program and see what courses you need to cover. Since you're planning on freelancing, school really doesn't matter; your portfolio is what matters. And since web development doesn't involve much theory, practical knowledge, which is mostly taught in internet tutorials, should be enough to get you on the right path. Do expect to study just as hard as you would in a degree program. Today's development technologies are complex, and are practically unusable without having a good reference manual at your side. You won't be able to learn thoroughly with tutorials alone. Believe me. You won't be as knowledgeable as an undergraduate CS student in computing as a whole, but since CS doesn't focus on front-end web development too much, you could be just as effective as a web developer (or even more) in some aspects. CS grads will have probably worked with application servers and databases, but they -- servers and dbs -- really aren't hard to learn. CS covers a whole array of topics that aren't specific to web development. We learn about things that are abstracted to most users/developers. You would however be far behind a graduate of a web design/development program, who would have probably taken classes in graphic design, web programming, databases, etc. This is all in theory of course. Most CS graduates would easily surpass a self-taught developer of only a few years experience in general programming know-how. There's so much pre-packaged software out there, you can practically throw together a site without even knowing what a compiler is. If at any point, you have to sit down and write some code (not markup), I'd suggest you grab yourself a light algorithms text (after finishing an introductory programming text) and try to educate yourself on how to write efficient code. 30 is still young. There are 50 year olds who are just hitting their primes and are some of the most active community members on the Internet. Above all else, your work is what's going to determine how well you do. PHP is the dominate server-side web language; it's not going anywhere. Flash/JQuery/Flex are a few others that come to mind. Java is mainly used in mobile technologies and enterprise computing. C/C++ is used in systems programming. I'd suggest focusing on PHP. People will tell you to start with C/C++ so "you can actually learn to code." It's a good idea, but most simply don't have time to go through all that. If you can't stick with PHP, programming is not for you; it's probably the easiest language out there. Also look into CMSs: Content Management Systems.

Programming isn't about age it's about your way of thinking in solving problems. There are many ways to make something do something. People who program for a long time find more efficient ways of solving problems, but you can call yourself a programmer as soon as you write your first program.

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Programming isn't about age it's about your way of thinking in solving problems. There are many ways to make something do something. People who program for a long time find more efficient ways of solving problems, but you can call yourself a programmer as soon as you write your first program.

According to your condition and to master(I'm talking about real master), JavaScript and web programming i'll take 4 years to M.Sc (Master computer Science Of internet M.Sc. Choose as best

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