self taught html/AS/flash with occasional tutorial help and 1 book (Flash 5 AS, I think)
I’m pretty good at picking up software on my own, as long as it’s not badly laid out (hello Maya!)
i got my education from class! i got taught to design in flash by some university teacher, but the sad thing is i only went for a few months, so i was i only taught the basic stuff, and we only started actionscript. and i dropped the class becuase summer was coming soon. so i never truly learned the real codes.
sefl taught html through View>source. learning flash/AS/php through kirupa and a couple of books.
i’m actually taking web design 1 at my school (can’t believe there were 2 prereq’s for it/had to get department permission b/c i don’t have them) this fall. basic html/photoshop. hahahaha. i was going to ask if i could TA if i couldn’t take it.
Crazy… Same here with phisics… 
I’m a real phisics maniac and in the summer i would studie phisics books… call me crazy. But I’m mostly sleeping the class and still get the highest grade. lol!
But I guess… Most of the poeple just learned by doing it. Are there anny highly educated people in the bisness?
Someone rubbed my head and then all of a sudden I became it. Ever since then I’ve had nightmares and more nightmares :evil2:.
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No actually I got into it because of the fact that you can design realistic stuff when it comes to webdesign. Doesn’t make sense but whatever.
I learned by my brother MAKING me get into flash and he taught me how to motion tween a box and that was it. From there I because a fool and started to like flash :(. Once you like flash you know the capabilities of photoshop, then 3D, then coding…so I experimented in lots of programs.
Why did I have to get into this. Why couldn’t I just be a normal kid who doesn’t know anything except microsoft word.
I need some water. Someone stab me and cut off the dreadful fingertips.
lol thats a really sad story I feel you sharif 
ditto, slowly but surely it works
plus many many tutorials and a bit of help from others
Copying people’s code, online tuts and some books.
Books were a big help though
Lol yup, it’s true though. I hate myself now. I’m on my computer off and on…
I took a couple of classes but learned almost everything I know now from here 
Well Sophmore year of high school when the internet really started showing up. That would have been about 7 years ago. (Most of you were like 5 then) I started learning HTML from books and code samples. I started learning to be mischevious. I wanted to create a page that looked like the hotmail sign-on page so I could grab everyones usernames and passwords… High School gossip is entertaining.
During my first year of college my sister showed some of my work to a friend of hers who owned a web company and he said he would train me some more if I would come work for him. So I dropped out and became a CodFusion programmer. Got to do some flash and graphics, but I was learning ColdFusion from co-workers and from books.
Since then I’ve leanred more programming from books online guides. Flash I’ve learned on my own from books, tutotrials and knowing the right people to ask questions to.
Actually the truth is 2advanced recruited me and eric jordan rubbed my head so I become all wierd.
Lol j/k :P.
I learned everything i can from ScripFlipper! He showed me Photoshop and introduced me to Flash. I salute you ScriptFlipper! Thanks dude. 
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Are you implying that most of us are 12 years old? :P[/ot]
That’s about when I started learning HTML. I was 8 
hehe. After I learned the basics I had a few years where I was designing on and off, but only started reading a lot of books again last year. Which is when I picked up Flash, PHP, and CSS.
For me, everything started with MS Publisher 97. Hehe I know, not a webdesign tool, but I saw that you could make websites with it (or… sort of). I was about 8 at the time. So I made one site and showed my parents, I was so proud over my template-created lack-of-content website hehe
Then I realized that Publisher wasn’t a webdesign app, so I started using MS Frontpage Express. Made a few sites at age 9-10.
Learned HTML some how, guess it was because I wanted to edit my sites at school, and they only had Notepad Used tutorials and common sense combined with logic.
Uhm… After that, I started playing around in Photoshop and uhm… I think I got Dreamweaver when I was about 14 or so (don’t ask me how I got it).
Started learning PHP cause it was needed for a client’s website, age 16. Used books and tutorials. Downloads the trial version of Flash 5. Don’t understand one thing about it, so I uninstall it.
Age 17. Gets a copy of Flash 5. Start tweening some stuff and uses Google in my search for tutorials. Sees a link to kirupa.com - Ultimate Flash Resource. Visits.
Joins forum. Gets addicted. Been here since. Learned everything I know about Flash from here. (Well, the basics. The rest I’ve learned on my own or by postiong questions.)
I owe you K-man
That’s about it.
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@keeka: You’re welcome 
yep… I learned all flash off this site… I played around from flash 3 till flash 5… and only got a motion between and simple action script… I mean a play button was kickass. back then. Then I suddenly got flash 6 and kirupa…
I started off just using publisher, from then I mostly used online tutorials…until i got a job and then I could afford a couple of books.
Self taught for everything. Except combustion, I won a free class (from my 3d stuff) to learn that. But otherwise, I learned by trial and error