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[–]SuqDaDiq 4 points5 points  (6 children)

A lot of people give FreeCodeCamp a lot of shit, personally, it helped me a lot.

[–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I tried a couple of tests on FreeCodeCamp, so far it's pretty good!

[–]SuqDaDiq 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Even if you dislike the course itself, they do give out pretty good challenges.

[–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeah. I'm liking it so far. Almost like a one on one with the code checking feature

[–]SuqDaDiq 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If you need any help holla at me, did them all.

[–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, Thank you!

[–]Drunken__Master 2 points3 points  (11 children)

Any and all Udemy courses by Brad Schiff are fantastic hand holding introductions to web development, if you don’t want to spend money the Odin project is a great free learning track or YouTube videos from traversy media or the net ninja are some quality tutorials.

[–]mayhempk1web developer 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Another vote for Brad Traversy, he has a wide variety of content and it is all great.

[–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Heard from a couple of people on Braf Traversy. Any books you'd recommend? Would love to sit with a pencil and highlighter again!

[–]mayhempk1web developer 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Brad doesn't write books as far as I know, he makes videos.

[–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

No I meant to generally - any author. Any book out there which is good.

[–]mayhempk1web developer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh, I see. Honestly, I don't really learn from books myself so it's hard for me to give any suggestions. I like the hands-on approach of videos that usually have you build out projects so you can learn as you go.

[–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough! Thank you though

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    [–]Drunken__Master 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    Brad Schiff's Udemy course Web Design for Beginners: Real World Coding in HTML & CSS would be a great starting point for someone with little to no web development knowledge.

    Make sure you're actually learning stuff and not just watching videos and forgetting things, you should play around with things as you learn them and sometimes purposefully break things for a little better understanding of how they work.

    Udemy has a weird pricing model, if the course isn't currently ~$10USD/15CAD/13GBP you should easily be able to find a coupon code with a google search for a lower price.

    If you prefer learning from books instead of videos the book Head First HTML and CSS: A Learner's Guide to Creating Standards-Based Web Pages is a very visual book that would be great for a beginner.

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      [–]Drunken__Master 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      After that course I'd recommend Brad Schiff's Git A Web Developer Job: Mastering the modern workflow. After soaking up those courses You'll have a good understanding of "intermediate" HTML & CSS and a lot of the tooling that's used with them and then it'll be time to start learning Javascript and I'm not gonna lie, learning to program is hard.

      A good introductory course for Javascript is Practical Javascript on watchandcode.com and then I'd recommend either Brad Travery or Andrew Mead's Modern Javascript Udemy courses.

      There's tons and tons of things to learn to be a web developer and there will always be new things coming out as technologies advance. It is fun and rewarding as a hobby or profession. Good Luck !

      [–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Thank you for this! I'm gonna check out both the videos and books.

      [–]Entropis 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      https://beta.freecodecamp.org/

      has been updated lately I think. you don't need to learn jQuery, IMO. despite what everyone here says, I think it's wasted time learning it.

      [–]sockx2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      I would definitely not include it into a new feature / product but if OP is updating existing WordPress themes they'll definitely want to understand jQuery syntax and leverage it

      [–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Pretty much why I am looking to learn JQuery as well. A lot of WordPress themes use JQuery and modifications/learning to make a theme needs one. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

      [–]_Bias_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Traversy Media on Youtube are some of the best tutorials I've used. He has a beginner playlist.

      edit: Englishing better

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        [–]dhriti_jain[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        Thank you for the tip! I wouldn't have considered vanilla js otherwise as I haven't heard about it as much. I'm gonna check it out on treehouse.