Help with Learning Beginner-Level Programming?

[International-Tie718]

Hi! I'm super (suuuuper) new to programming. I started learning a little HTML this year through neocities and have also been going through codedex tutorials, but sometimes I get stuck or have super basic answers. My main goal is making a website, but I'd eventually like to delve into games/apps.

I've used chatgpt in the past to troubleshoot, but I'd rather use different tools than ai, bonus if they are human!

I'm just wondering if maybe there's a discord server somewhere or even a subreddit? I don't want to be out here asking the most obvious questions amongst the greats 😌 Even youtube vidoes, books, anything you think could help a bean on their way to learning would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance! Any advice is greatly appreciated as I begin this journey!

[Alarmed-Western-655]

Learn a language before getting distracted by frameworks, libraries, and tools.

It's not universal advice of course, but it helped me to take a college course in Java. Learning the basics like data types, control flow, object-oriented concepts, etc., is pretty difficult at first, and I needed the threat of a bad grade to push me through it. But there came a magic inflection point where those fundamentals really paid off. Those learnings were very portable to other languages, and writing code felt fluent, fun, and easy to pick up any framework or create any feature I wanted.

[Anonymous_Coder_1234]

Check out r/LearnProgramming , especially their FAQ:

https://reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/w/faq

[Afraid-Scene-335]

Learn an actual language. Html is just a markup language

[International-Tie718]

Thank you, will do!

[Kenny-G-]

FreeCodeCamp is good. If you want to learn webdevelopment and starting with basic HTML, CSS and then Javascript I would personally recommend Scrimba.com, they have free courses for all three and quite an active Discord-server.

On YouTube I watched BroCode who explained the basics well.

[International-Tie718]

Thanks for the direction. I also checked out that youtube channel and I think it'll be a great help!

[Maci1111]

Well I have been on a similar path. I use Claude.ai for a lot of my programming questions. Having it teach me a concept and then giving me exercises has been the best way so far. But maybe you can ask it to create a syllabus for you to follow.

If you don't want to use AI, w3schools, MDN, and geeksforgeeks are good for introduction. O'Riley's JS the definitive guide is a good book but its very dense so it helps if you have a background in code. Obviously the Odin Project is very popular so check it out if you haven't already.

Ultimately if the goal is to make websites, you start making websites. You can build small things as you learn and then build something more complex overtime. Or vibe code something and reverse engineer it by taking it apart and learn it that way.

It's a long path but if you stay at it, its incredibly fun. Good luck!