Hello there Forever Devers !!
I am a retired Data Engineer from GE and new to this community.
Last year I started redesigning my website which offers free Java and SQL tutorials for beginner programmers. And, I kid u not, but this was my first time I ever used JQuery. Because I was primarily on the back end with boring SQL, over the many years, I used Java Servlets to connect to my data. Originally back in the late 1990s when the Servlet spec first came out I was using JDBC for my front end development and got stuck with it over the years. I was 44 years old back then. During my early years as an Oracle Developer we also used JSP for our presentation layer. But then more modern Javascript replaced JSP making its big moves into the forefront and webdev was forever morphed. Frontend JDBC was old technology as PHP became all the rage for both front and back end javascripting and connecting to data.
Now fast forward and I am 66 and have a lot of time to be on the web with my redesign.
I knew all about this front end stuff but since I was all about SQL I was kind of stuck. JQuery now comes to the rescue. During my redesign I used Ajax to call up my backend servlets, and here is where I am right now.
I know for most of u that JQuery is for dinosaurs like me but I chose it because it is easy to learn for a beginner. Then we can become more sophisticated later on with most up to date javascript. PS, Angular killed us all at GE.
So it is never too late to learn coding at any age.
We should share stories of our humble beginnings, so the older u are please do add some comments and we can all have a bit of fun reminiscing.
That's all for now, thanks for reading
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2023 update. I am now 69 years old and still learning new tricks. Ditched JQuery in favor of Plain JS, learned AWS Lambda and am now entirely Serverless. No more SQL server either as I went to NoSQL and also Apache Server is outsourced too. Find out more at javasqlweb.org
Does anyone care to share their humble beginnings as a Programmer?