"When we started we didn't know how to do any Web programming whatsoever," Morey said. "We didn't even know how to set up a Web server or a database. But we both sort of fell in love with all the new things we were learning."
Wow! That pretty much sums it up, AFAIC.
Start with a problem. Find a way to solve that problem, no matter what it takes. Have fun.
We were all doing physics before Octopart so we were pretty comfortable in a unix environment. I took a class in C as a sophomore in college and Sam took the same class in Java. When we decided we were going to start a company I had never heard of MySQL and when we launched we didn't know how to write a single line of javascript. Our core search engine is written in C++ so we've had to learn quite a bit more than traditional web programming as well.
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"When we started we didn't know how to do any Web programming whatsoever," Morey said. "We didn't even know how to set up a Web server or a database. But we both sort of fell in love with all the new things we were learning."
Wow! That pretty much sums it up, AFAIC.
Start with a problem. Find a way to solve that problem, no matter what it takes. Have fun.
What more could you ask for?
"didn't know how to do any Web programming"
That doesn't mean they didn't know how to code. Adjusting to web programming is not so hard if you are already a coder.
That said, it is indeed inspiring
We were all doing physics before Octopart so we were pretty comfortable in a unix environment. I took a class in C as a sophomore in college and Sam took the same class in Java. When we decided we were going to start a company I had never heard of MySQL and when we launched we didn't know how to write a single line of javascript. Our core search engine is written in C++ so we've had to learn quite a bit more than traditional web programming as well.
you have a lot of determination