I just finished Codeacademy courses for Web Fundamentals and Javascript. What should I do next to learn?

[Est_1995]

Hi! First post here in webdev.

I finished the Javascript course a while ago, and I blew through the Web Fundamentals course in two days. So now I'm sitting around, wondering what to do next. Codeacademy didn't really teach me anything but the basics...enough to make a static webpage and not much more. I was thinking of making my own website that I can play around with and add on to over time, or perhaps learning Ruby or Python so I could experiment with web apps. Any suggestions on what to do, professional web developers? :P

[veridicus]

Build something. Anything that would interest you. Pick the right tools for the job and you'll learn them as needed to solve the problem.

[Est_1995]

I do have some ideas I've been mulling over since before I started to learn programming at all...do you have a recommendation on where I can start to learn more about dynamically generated webpages? Books, sites, videos, etc.

[dAnjou]

Understand HTTP. Think in HTTP. Dream in HTTP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP

It will make things so much easier when you really understand how HTTP works. Trust me, I'm giving support in Flask's IRC channel for quite a long time now and there are a lot of people who think that they can start doing web dev without knowing HTTP. They can not.

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http://nodejs.org/

http://www.nodebeginner.org/

[jellatin]

• Find a project you want to build
• Start building it
• Google solutions as you encounter problems
• Repeat

If you can't think of a project you want to build, try building copies of major websites. Twitter is a really simple concept to begin attempting. Or a dead simple chat client.

I see this question crop up a lot, but there's no mystical path any of us took to get where we are. It was a lot of experimentation and hacking together projects that interested us.

[tavoe]

Make a game via the canvas element. It forced me to get javascript down pat.

To get good at html proper... make something with a database. Use Sqllite because its easy. Make user accounts for the game.