Should I go to college to learn web design and or web development?

[therealmrgucci1]

true... the only real way to make it is to do research on your own. i learn photoshop from utube... i have a photoshop class now (in college) and most of the students know more than the teacher... it shouldnt be like that, its not right.

[Viewer2k08]

Haven't logged into u2b for a while but had to1. To subscribe and 2. Thank you for the great info. Decided to take up web design/development but started with the self taught approach and was thinking about learning most of it prior to getting my degree but based off this video may just skip the degree all together (still debating though). Anyways, watched your pro. design vid #1 and then this, looking forward to watching the rest...maybe I can get some advice down the line, thanks again.

[MorrWind120]

That is what I thought after you menchin were you went to college. How is the economy down their?

[jabcreations]

@MorrWind120 I live in Sarasota (hour south of Tampa) and went to "college" in Orlando. The economy isn't good and the "recovery" is a fake, the US is far from hitting rock bottom.

[SuperDoubleohseven]

@jabcreations Did you go to Full Sail? Yeah that's not a real college. Real colleges are UCF, Seminole State. Good accredited schools. Letme see your portfolio.

[jabcreations]

@SuperDoubleohseven No, IADT though I have heard of Full Sail. Those schools you listed did not have web development programming or databases in their curriculum thus they would not have taught what I needed to learn any way. The main point of the video is to simply not go to college and blow tens of thousands of dollars on something you can do much better and for free.

[SuperDoubleohseven]

@jabcreations this is not true.

Seminole State College gives web development classes.

[jabcreations]

@SuperDoubleohseven I looked them up and generally that would have been a lot better then IADT (except Oracle = more evil then M$). It's okay though because I've been slowly adding web tutorials to my site for others. The main thing here is that all the stuff you might learn while spending tens of thousands of dollars on a college can be learned for free and you can learn it at your own pace be it slower or faster and potentially more effective then a college would teach.

[Onegurrrlrev]

@SuperDoubleohseven Fullsail is a good technical school. Real world skills are taught.Takes forever to get hands on experience in college.I am a Multimedia student at Hawaii Pacific University. Thinking of taking newswriting: integrated media instead of web design. If web design is anything like my programming and graphic design class, i'll hate it.My concentration is video, will be going to Columbia U's grad film school in the fall where I can finally specialize in cinematography/directing.

[wmp89]

Totally agree on the Liberal agenda in college. I can't stand it.

[MorrWind120]

Your right on about some people not knowing about doing art. Any ways I'm still going into a different art stuff, but have to take on some web design as one of thos tack on class as you have asked Robertwright889. This gets a short comment to let you know I have gotten it.

[jabcreations]

@MorrWind120 Cool, glad I could get the video out for you.

[MorrWind120]

@jabcreations

It might take a day or two be for I get anything. Because I'm under the Eastern time zone.

[jabcreations]

@MorrWind120 I'm not sure what you mean? I'm EST too.

[MorrWind120]

@jabcreations

Oh then never mind, oh well. What state your in? (massage me if you want to leak that information out. An you know what my state is if you still have that website that I gave to you.)

[jabcreations]

@MorrWind120 I'm in Floriduh.

[Robertwright889]

oh wow :D, long time no see!!, funny thing my next class is web-design (u have same bed spreads O_O as i do) odd

[jabcreations]

@Robertwright889 Haha thanks...are you going to classes for the web or is it one of those tack-on classes?

[Robertwright889]

@jabcreations tack-on classes i chose, i didnt want another history class :|

[jabcreations]

@Robertwright889 *dies* Ah! No swearing! I haven't hit beta yet, currently optimizing the site to load faster with caching and compression. Teachers make or break how much the time of taking the class is and whether it applies to the real world or not.

[Robertwright889]

@jabcreations hm O_O did i swear?.. cuz i know ur touchy bout it XD

[jabcreations]

@Robertwright889 Yeah you did, don't worry about it though.

[Robertwright889]

@jabcreations oh crap XD, i didnt even notice, i need some soap!! wash my mouth X_X

[jabcreations]

@Robertwright889 Wait till we have discussions on the new version of my site as it soaps your posts for you. :-D

[jabcreations]

@Robertwright889 Yeah, notice any political bias in history class? Yeah, I've been super busy speeding towards beta with my site but there's just an immense number of things that have to be done to go live without having major headaches.

[jaciusceed]

Degrees merely help get you an interview these days.

Unless you have a degree from a really good university that is.

It's really just to get your foot in the door, you need to nail any and all interviews to get the job over someone else.

They will have a degree as well.

Going to college for certain fields is a must though, such as a doctor.

Others, you can get away with learning the basics at the college and just getting experience through actually doing the work.

Love the subject or don't go.

[jabcreations]

@jaciusceed The point of my video is to help people who are considering web design and or web development to not go at all even for a few classes to save themselves money, time, and the aggravation of being disconnected from reality. I learned everything I know from searching online and posting in forums.