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I think there's a bit of a misconception for how the industry works that leads to questions like this. Web design is really more of it's own thing centered around graphic design and css, although programs *have* to know html these days. Outside that it sounds
like you are getting ahead of yourself in terms of specialization, everyone doing non-entry level IT work needs to know a bit of programming (you can call it scripting if you like) and any non-entry level programmer needs to know a bit the systems they right
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If what you're worried about is building up the knowledge needed for a career, in my opinion the right approach is "what don't I know?" If you have never written any code before don't worry about learning web development, go learn some basic scripting simple
perl/ruby/python scripts and the basics of writing code in general. If you're comfortable with that but you don't know how your OS works, go set up a linux server or compile a kernel or whatever else interests you. If you already know all that dive into
something deeper, pick up a new programming language or run through linux from scratch.</div>
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One more thought, I'm of the opinion you can't "learn security" Securing a system is really more of a by-product of intrinsically understanding that system and how it can be exploited. That implies that if you aren't already very competent writing code and
understanding system internals you can't be a useful security person until you are.<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Paul Mooring
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org <plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org> on behalf of Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 23, 2013 11:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> PLUG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> what to learn</font>
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<div dir="ltr">you know, I've asked the question about what to learn multiple times. I think I've been asking the wrong question. The new incarnation of my question is what do you think I should learn. Programming is one option and web design is another. Is
there another option i'm not thinking of? I guess security is a third. Any others? Things to consider when answering that question would be what is needed? What is the potential? What isn't being addressed.... things like that.
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<div>I have more questions but I guess we should get that question out of the way first.<br clear="all">
<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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