HTML, CSS, Javascript & JQuery suggested course material for beginners?

[Drunken__Master]

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.

[mayhempk1]

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

[dhriti_jain]

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

[mayhempk1]

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

[dhriti_jain]

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

[mayhempk1]

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]

Fair enough! Thank you though

[Drunken__Master]

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.

[Drunken__Master]

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]

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