Ian Wetherbee

Hey there, welcome to my wiki/blog combination that I hope to be tending to while I go about tackling this daunting project. I'm currently a junior in high school, and I took on this project as an Independent Study option that our school offers. It's a really cool option to have open to you in high school, and any student that wants to can find a teacher to mentor them through a brand new course of the student's creation. My mentor happens to be the fabulous Jim Berry who I had for a Web Publishing teacher last year. A few years back I became interested in computers, so being a kid with access to the internet, I started seeing what could be done with the computers I used every day. The first thing I encountered was HTML, and as I navigated around different pages, I became very interested in how people made the websites I was viewing. A few weeks later, I had a basic understanding of HTML that I could do something with, so I started experimenting more with making more complex pages. I encountered CSS to make my pages look nice, and javascript a while later to take care of browser bugs or improve user interfaces, or sometimes just to see what I could do with it. Then I discovered dynamic pages, which was where the real action was in terms of user interaction. With most pages ending in .php, I naturally looked up how the pages were created and started creating my very own. PHP by itself can't do much without a database, so I taught myself through W3Schools how to connect with and manipulate data in MySQL databases, and out popped my first full-fledged PHP+MySQL webpage; my school's dynamic error reporting system. Since then, I've kept absorbing knowledge on CSS, HTML, PHP, MySQL, javascript, and AJAX, and this entire website is my attempt at showing the world what I can create with what I know, and hopefully to challenge my abilities to their breaking point and learn a new thing or two.

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