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How to learn to do programming like a pro
1. Learn How To Program like a Pro
• Easiest thing in the world to learn
how to develop your own websites
and do application programming.
• Back in 1994 when the internet hit
South Africa I got all fired up by
this new medium and made it my
mission to learn to write my own
websites and learn some
programming skills.
• Never did I know how easy it is
going to be if someone would just
sit down and explain in in simple
terms and this is exactly what I am
going to to do just right now.
2. Editors For HTML Websites
• First you need a editor program and
that you have already on your
computer being part of your
operating system and ships with
Windows - Notepad.
• Just click on Start, Programs,
Accessories and then on Notepad
to open.
• You can open any website or html
file with Notepad just click all files
to display what ever files there are
in a folder.
3. HTML Code
• Once open what you see is the
program itself may look
complicated to the untrained eye
however do not despair it is not
rocket science and are actually
very easy to understand once you
got the hang of it.
• All website code start with 'html'
and end with '/html'
• Then below the 'html' you got what
we call the head tags 'head’...'/head'
here you will find the title,
description, css not visible when
the website is running.
4. HTML Code
• Below the '/head' you will find the
'body bgcolor="#ffffff"' all that tell
you or better the browser is to
display this website with a white
back ground, best to have a white
back ground with black text make a
good contrast and easy on the eye
to read.
• Below the 'body bgcolor="#ffffff"'
you will find the 'table border="0"
width="600" align="center"
cellspacing="5"'
5. HTML Code
• What the table does is basically to
tell the browser that the website
display in a browser are 600 pixels
wide and displayed in the center of
the screen and in my templates
cases where I use two tables that
they are spaced apart by 5 pixels.
• You can download all my website
templates for free no copyright use
as you own easy to use and edit.
• All you need to do is to change the
text the pictures, hyper links and
email address and saveas
'filename.htm' to create your own
website.
6. AOLPRESS HTML Editor
• As simple as that any body even a
school kid can do it.
• To make things even more easy is
to download a free HTML Editor
program 'AOLPRESS' from the
internet. This editor create clean
code and are really easy to use
contain a great help file. I'm using
mine for the past twenty years and
it still work fine, you can also use
Frontpage or Dream Weaver or any
other editor if you like.
7. AOLPRESS a Winner and FREE
• But I still maintain one should
learn these few lines of code
since it is so easy if you want to
edit by hand in Notepad. Besides I
do all my websites in Notepad and
run them through 'AOLPRESS' to
fix any mistakes if any at all.
• Do yourself a favor and download
‘AOLPRESS’ since it is so easy to
use what you do upfront appear in
the code at the back and visa versa.
8. Application Programming
• Just as simple and easy to learn and
apply.
• All you need for starters is a
development program like Visual
Basic 6 or and I would recommend
to also have a Visual Basic.NET
2003 program being the previous
versions of Microsoft's Visual
Basic development program range.
• They are still very strong and you
will find them to be able to develop
just about any type of application
you can think of.
9. Application Programming
• There are also Delphi which runs
on Pascal and Python for game
development but for starters I
would recommend is to go for
Visual Basic
• You should be able to purchase
copies from Ebay for a few dollars.
Visual Basic.Net 2003 contain a
great help file with tons of code.
You can also download free lines
of code from the internet like from
planet-source-code.com.
10. Application Programming
• So how do one learn to use these
programs being all new to it easy:
You just simply open a existing
program with any one of these
developers edit the code by copy
and paste new code saveas a
executable file and run it.
• Now if you are a real go getter is to
learn the various bits and pieces of
code but why break yourself since
it is freely available online.
• This is how I do all my websites
and application programming.
11. Application Programming
• The database program I developed
I got all the program lines from the
help file in Visual Basic.NET 2003
and are quite a complex program in
order to create a website from a
Access Database.
• You can download my website
templates and application programs
including the source code to get
you started for free. I'm basically
doing programming as a hobby
being old and retired at age 68 and
my knowledge could help someone
else to maybe become a to top
programmer one day.
12. We are Done Good Luck
• Here is a link to my blogger
blog where you will find a
download link to all my website
templates and application
programs including source code
or send email please to
dreyerherman123@gmail.com
• Free if you want to set up your
own FREE blog one day owned
by Google so band width is no
problem in terms of handling a
volume of traffic.
• Download all my free Programs