Aleksandra Gridnyova is ready for certificate

Aleksandra, Hi!

Thanks for your words - you are too kind :) And thanks for your story, for I always wish to know better about people who come here - their background, feelings and ways of studying programming :)

By the way, by your nickname I thought you are (or were) employed at Grid Dynamics (company I left recently) - but now mystery is solved!

As a girl it isn't so hard to become a programmer as most people think.

I'm most sure it is not harder for women than for men, but it seems hard to explain this to others! It all is more about personal interests, legacy and traditions. Hope things will improve in 20-30 years :)

I've made a site for russian college students

I've checked and yeah, this looks impressive enough. From height of my experience I understand it is not that hard - but on other hand I assure you I was not able to create something like this when I was 2 years in programming. Even 10 probably... Perhaps you are going to be either frontend developer or web-ui automated tester!

Oh, and back to the matter: your certificate is ready at your profile! As you are the very first recipient of this kind of paper, feel free to tell if you don't like anything about design and this could be fixed somehow. I'll try!

Congratulations, Alexandra! Is it truth that nobody has the same sertificate? :)

Иногда кажется, что русских здесь не менее трети всех пользователей)

From height of my experience I understand it is not that hard...

Oh, this sentence frightens me. I guess you was a programmer even before my mother is born - so big is your experience. Really, I think an average man / women need 50 years to create first site that looks like this one (and I myself never made a single web-site, even the simplest "hello world" one - it looks too difficult for me).

Alexandra, can you give me a tip how to create such a wonderful web-site? Which technologies you used, and how exactly you used them in this site? Few examples with code would be most appreciated.

Oh, this sentence frightens me. I guess you was a programmer even before my mother is born

Ha-ha-ha ))))

Thanks for pointing this out - I do apologize that I expressed myself in impolite way. I meant of course from "height of my current experience compared to when I myself just started programming". You see, I always feel nostalgic when meet people who describe their own first steps and achievements.

However it was about 1 o'clock in the night as you may see and my thoughts were too confused to construct phrases correctly. Elaborating this thought - while I started programming probably in 1997, you may easily find out that I was very poor in web-design even by 2013 when I started CodeAbbey. Some users kindly told me I should really learn a bit of "BootStrap" and update the design. But still some pages could be found in older style (even uglier than they are now).

Alexandra, can you give me a tip how to create such a wonderful web-site?

In case Alexandra is offended by my unintentional rudeness (I heartily ask for pardon again) I'd suggest you visit StartBootstrap and grab some of the templates from there. I judge by source of the page mentioning it, though I may be mistaken.

Checked the link to StartBootstrap (I understand this is a tip for Alexandra, not for me, but I was curious).

Didn't understand much though, only two things:

1. This StartBootstrap site is for sure NOT an educational web-site, even though it have few guides.
2. Not a single line of Pascal (or even Python) code found in templates I checked on this site. This means that I probably must look for templates elsewhere (because I know only Pascal and only recently learned some Python), or probably web-development is not for me at all.

Ah, sorry, I missed that you may be not well acquainted with web-development (I thought most people know it usually better than I). Let me try to help then:

• web pages are not about programming exactly, it's rather markup, main word here is HTML and next CSS
• however this markup may be dynamically generated on server by any language (PHP, Python, Java - even Pascal) - and further modified inside browser by JavaScript and similar programming languages
• to start from zero and grasp it fairly fast you may took any introduction to HTML and CSS, including mine - not that they are excellent, but at least I know well what they are about :)
• alternatively or additionally look at few web-related problems we have, they provide some basic intro too.

or probably web-development is not for me at all.

I believe you can easily cover things mentioned above in a day or two and start building your funny web-stuff on free servers - I'm sure it will give you some joy if you really never tried. At some moment you'll get more interested about web-design specifically - then read something on "Bootstrap" library. And feel free to ask anything at any point - either I or other people will gladly try to answer :)

Hi, Rodion, thank you much for your response.

It seems like a lot of new things to learn. These new words HTML, markup, CSS, JavaScript...

Of course I won't cover all this in day/two, but I will try to learn at least something about it.