indigoarthur

Hello Friends,I'm at a pivotal time in my life. I'm 26 and trying to embark on a new career (*a* career, rather) in Web & Software development. I majored in Mathematics but unfortunately was not a very dedicated student at the time and am a quarter away from actually finishing my degree. The problem is I've been on "break" from school for a long while now, and a return although much desired is currently financially prohibitive. Even so, I have the technical background and all the right mental tools to succeed in my current endeavor. That which I lack, and have always lacked, is focus and motivation. This is why I post, in hopes of finding some amongst peers and momentary mentors potentially found in these forums.Like so many others, I started programming with QBASIC when I was 12. I was drawn to game development and to my great pride at that young age was able to figure out my own methods for smooth, flickerless animation in QB, culminating in a colorful Pong-style game. I dabbled in C/C++ but never consistently enough to get very far. Then I discovered online coding and the community of developers that I grew so fond of. Any fans of LPC (an interpreted C-like language) here? I've been developing in it for over a decade and am something of a master with it. Alas, even if I embraced the DGD platform it seems the industry opportunities are very limited. At the very least through it I was able to work with and learn from some brilliant coders around the world, not to mention learning the fundamentals of OOP and system design.Now I am focusing on learning: HTML/CSS/XML, PHP, SQL, JS, Java, and VBA. I have a solid foundation of programming technique and an excellent understanding of logical systems, mostly I lack specific experience with these industry tools and the little details that come with practicing them. As I mentioned, I've also been having a bit of a "focus block" lately.If you have read this far down I congratulate and thank you, and wish to conclude by saying that any advice or suggestions you might have as to my actualizing myself as a paid web & software developer would be profusely appreciated. Thanks very much.Regards

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