Recently on the net, there has been a discussion of teenage web designers. Some teenagers think that because they know HTML, they can do professional work.
Some teenagers know that it takes a lot more than that.
Some adults refuse to believe that any teenager could be aware that it takes more than HTML knowledge to be a professional. All in all, it is a fertile ground for misunderstanding. Even so, there were some interesting ideas and questions that came out of the discussion. Regardless of age, some people come to the web and create wonderful sites almost immediately. Other struggle for years, following many dead-end paths.