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When I was 12, there's no Facebook, no Bootstrap-like CSS framework, no drag-n-drop build tools. I want to build a forum for own interests and for my class.

I just following the steps one-by-one without asking WHY. Getting the PHP forum source, upload it, change few lines. Then, started to try to change color, adding plugins. (Thanks God! In the old days, there's no good MVC separate framework, I must dig into source to change things to add plugins or change styles. When I did more and more, I started to understand the pattern. And then I tried by testing the code.)

So I believed, maybe started with making a WordPress site rather than just HTML & CSS. Child got an end product to show their friends and able to drop comments in the blog.

Get thing done first -> Then, to understand the basic.




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