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your handle is humbledrone and your opinions are humbled. Boy am i impressed!

really?

I cant stop myself from saying this. You wrote all this instead of doing what?

You mean to say high quality is something built with lowest common denominator in mind like windows?

Hi,

Thanks for your inputs. I really appreciate you guys taking out time. This is what I am planning to do.

1. Learn JavaScript and then jQuery. I am aiming at becoming comfortable with JS and jQuery in 3 months.

2. After 2 months I will start creating and selling simple templates (like e-mail templates and HTML website templates) on Themeforest.com. In 3 months I will start developing templates based on Twitter BootStrap

3. I will continue to polish my front end web dev skills from month # 4 to month # 6.

4. If my templates start generating a revenue of $600+ from month # 6 onwards I will be a very happy man. 600 bucks will take care of my family's monthly expenses.

5. If this financial goal is met I will learn Python. At this stage I will also start spending more time programming 7-8 hours a day and will gradually come out of my freelance writing (pays a measly $3-$10 and hour) and Internet marketing gigs.

I appreciate what you are saying. I have seen great programmers who can learn and start serious programming in a new language within a month.

Thanks Egor! This is where I stand now. 1. Working knowledge of CSS and HTML 2. Aptitude for programming.

This is what I am going to do

1. Learn JavaScript and then jQuery. I am aiming at becoming comfortable with JS and jQuery in 3 months. 2. After 2 months I will start creating and selling simple templates (like e-mail templates and HTML website templates) on Themeforest.com. In 3 months I will start developing templates based on Twitter BootStrap 3. I will continue to polish my front end web dev skills from month # 4 to month # 6. 4. If my templates start generating a revenue of $600+ from month # 6 onwards I will be a very happy man. 600 bucks will take care of my family's monthly expenses.

5. If this financial goal is met I will learn Python. At this stage I will also start spending more time programming 7-8 hours a day and will gradually come out of my freelance writing (pays a measly $3-$10 and hour) and Internet marketing gigs.

Thanks for sharing your contact.

Will do that! If it works I will buy you a beer!

Thanks for the input. I have started learning JS. I am going through JS guide on developer.mozilla.org.

Sounds like a good idea. I will do this for 3 months and measure my performance.

I agree with your point that it is easier to charge money when the problem being solved is business critical.

P.S. Yes I feel a burning desire to program.

Thanks for the advice. I do plan to work as a freelancer and with local businesses. I also want to create some cool website templates and sell them on themeforest.net etc.

Do you think making 2000-3000 bucks a month feasible by selling themes? I saved wisely during my financial services days and if I can reach $2000 per month figure then I will focus 100% on programming.

Once again thanks for the advice.

I have not learnt JavaScript yet. I can spending only 3-4 hours every day learning how to program. Will it be a better idea to learn JavaScript before picking up server side scripting.

Since I can do server side with Node.js do you think it is a good idea to learn only JS for the time being?

Since I have to support my family I cannot spend more than 5 hours a day.

Thanks

Hi, (TL;DR;) Good logical skills, decent IQ, and zero prior (non trivial) programming experience.

Thanks for the advice. I am a electronics engineer (though never worked as one) and an MBA. I worked in financial services Industry for 10+ years.

I am good at Maths. I studied standard engg subjects like Logic and Boolean Algebra, C programming language, 8085 & 8086 microprocessor etc. But that was a very long time back. What I retain from my engineering school days is the ability to think logically and wrap my thoughts around a problem.

Thanks

Raja = King not warlord. Chandragupt Maurya the Emperor of Patliputra (now Patna) had an army much bigger than Porus'

Nathan berry has started to piss me off due to two reasons

One he is always ranting about the book he has written. Two he is giving generic rant on how to sell stuff.

Come on dude show something original.

Thanks

best reply!

"This is the sad reality of America" This is the sad reality of a democratic system. People have short memories.

Thanks for this enlightening article. I now know hot to make my first million.

Thanks again mate for posting this here on Hacker news.

Cs50 and cs75 by prof David malan are great courses. The prof is really cool