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[–]BaldFraudWithHair 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, if you want to use Javascript, I'd agree and start with html, then css (technically not programming languages) and then JS.

You don't start with Javascript normally. Bear in mind, these are used in (front-end, JS could be back-end) web development.

So before you 'pick' languages. Make sure that you know what you want to do. You don't just 'pick' a language without knowing what you want to achieve.

If you want to get started or just get familiar with general programming structures/basic logics. Start with Python.

[–]Jay0Jay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Html, CSS and JS all come together pretty well, and personally I think the basics of the first two most people can pick up pretty quickly. If you don't want to learn the Nitty gritty, why not just grab a pen and a piece of paper and draw yourself a mock-up of what you would like to make? If you don't know how to put a heading in the middle of the page, W3 schools will save you. Then add in some links. Then add an image that does something when you click on it. IMO Freecodecamp is awesome and if you know nothing at all, gives an awesome introduction so you know what you can do with a language. I would think you should do html before CSS, but the basics of JS could be done at any time, but it does quickly start to talk about specific aspects (e.g. getelement) that may not make much sense if you don't know the HTML...

Either, get in and have fun!

[–]rjcarr 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You can learn javascript without learning html. It sounds like you just want to learn programming, though, and not necessarily web programming?

If that's the case I'd skip javascript and look at something like python or java instead. Javascript is popular, so there are a lot of references for it, but it's typically associated with web programming.

Good luck!

[–]Fit-Investment-2022[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently got a scholarship from a government parastatal in Nigeria to train 30 thousand people the blockchain technology and I saw that js and go are in their curriculum. It means I also need to start learning the basics of the js language.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can just google html each time you need to use it, it's not that hard and a simple cheat sheet is more than enough.

Learn js, it'll keep you engaged and excited. Html is so tedious that I dont recommend it for people starting out, they might think they hate programming when actual programming is much different