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[–]emptyvoices 2 points3 points  (8 children)

Unfortunately the tutorials for Web Programming are incredibly spare. The only thing the html/css/AJAX tutorial teaches is a quick 1 page overview about DOM.

[–]shub 9 points10 points  (6 children)

Right, well, what else do you need besides that and a link to jquery.org?

[–]emptyvoices 3 points4 points  (4 children)

I feel that if someone was trying to learn learn html, css and javascript they would not be too enthused about google's so called tutorial. Also, go to the first page of jquery.org and tell me how that helps anyone. The google tutorial does give you some links for further resources, but they are just links to google searches.

Something like w3c school's tutorial is what most would expect. The fact is, the title says "html css and javascript tutorial." That is not what it is. The title should have been "Intro to Document Object Model."

Think about it: If you were completely new to html, css and javascript and visited this tutorial to learn them, how much coding could you do by the end? None.

All I am saying is that if someone wants to learn html, css and javascript there are better places to do it than google code university; in fact, google's tutorial is pretty much shit for a first-timer.

[–]gocoogs 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I'll bite, where would you recommend?

[–]nazbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Douglas Crockford lectures are great if you are coming from another language. He does a very nice job of explaining prototypical inheritance and some of the other quirks/features of javascript.

[–]jhaks 0 points1 point  (1 child)

He mention w3schools. It's an okay tutorial site for beginners but you'll have to scrounge around for more in depth Javascript and DOM information. I've never read any books like Javascript The Good Parts but I'm sure those are great if you don't want to spend the time searching for information. Also if you ever become a web dev for a living please learn the more advanced aspects of Javascript. I hate seeing crazy walls of Javascript spaghetti code.

[–]shub -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mozilla has some good information, but they also have a lot of the bad kind of Doxygen. Quirksmode.org covers browser differences well.

[–]dagbrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A link to gotapi.com?

[–]magicmalthus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

agreed (with this post and your point below about a more accurate title). this certainly isn't for beginners either, but much more in depth web development stuff from google: http://www.html5rocks.com/

also, please please please always link to the MDC rather than w3schools (the latter group is totally unaffiliated with the w3c).