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So as I mentioned in my first post: I knew absolutely nothing about coding in November 2011. As of today (March, 8 2012), I have been able to build some decent websites and programs in multiple languages. This post should provide a brief introduction on where to get started and the path I followed.
The Basics:
There is generally an order to follow when learning programming languages and I will start from the beginning.
HTML – This language provides a base for everything else you will do later on. The words you are reading right now are in HTML. The pictures you see are set in HTML. This is the first thing you should learn.
Teamtreehouse.com is where I first got started. It provides video tutorials showing you where to begin from the basics. HTML - Treehouse Their HTML series was free when I learned it, but they begin to charge for the rest. I strongly suggest using Notepad alongside the tutorials to learn the quickest.
CSS – The second language that is strongly connected to HTML is called CSS. This is the language that dictates HOW things look on the webpage. If you want your font to be red- you do it through here. If you want a picture to be in the top right of the page, you do it through here.
While teamtreehouse.com charges for this. TheNewBoston.org does not. The following link will help your practice HTML some more and work your way into CSS: List of Videos for XHTML & CSS I strongly suggest again to use notepad alongside the tutorials to learn the best. I also recommend NOT skipping the HTML portion of this series because repetition is key.
These two languages are the very basics of what your website will look like. You will have basically zero functionality to it (AKA people cannot submit information to the server or interact with the website). They will be able to view and read your content only. I strongly suggest you get decent with these two languages before you move onto anything else.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials Save this website and use it frequently! Now that you have an understanding of the two, this site will make sense to you and is a very good reference guide to expand on the basics. Continue to use w3schools as a reference guide for all languages.
Note: I am no way affiliated in any of the websites above.
It took me about two weeks to learn the basics of HTML and CSS. It was not until I actually started building my own web pages that I got comfortable with doing it.
If this thread is helping people out, I will continue and cover some more advanced stuff and then go into Javascript, PHP, MySQL as well as some content management systems that will make life a lot more easier for most people. Let me know if you want me to continue.
The Basics:
There is generally an order to follow when learning programming languages and I will start from the beginning.
HTML – This language provides a base for everything else you will do later on. The words you are reading right now are in HTML. The pictures you see are set in HTML. This is the first thing you should learn.
Teamtreehouse.com is where I first got started. It provides video tutorials showing you where to begin from the basics. HTML - Treehouse Their HTML series was free when I learned it, but they begin to charge for the rest. I strongly suggest using Notepad alongside the tutorials to learn the quickest.
CSS – The second language that is strongly connected to HTML is called CSS. This is the language that dictates HOW things look on the webpage. If you want your font to be red- you do it through here. If you want a picture to be in the top right of the page, you do it through here.
While teamtreehouse.com charges for this. TheNewBoston.org does not. The following link will help your practice HTML some more and work your way into CSS: List of Videos for XHTML & CSS I strongly suggest again to use notepad alongside the tutorials to learn the best. I also recommend NOT skipping the HTML portion of this series because repetition is key.
These two languages are the very basics of what your website will look like. You will have basically zero functionality to it (AKA people cannot submit information to the server or interact with the website). They will be able to view and read your content only. I strongly suggest you get decent with these two languages before you move onto anything else.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials Save this website and use it frequently! Now that you have an understanding of the two, this site will make sense to you and is a very good reference guide to expand on the basics. Continue to use w3schools as a reference guide for all languages.
Note: I am no way affiliated in any of the websites above.
It took me about two weeks to learn the basics of HTML and CSS. It was not until I actually started building my own web pages that I got comfortable with doing it.
If this thread is helping people out, I will continue and cover some more advanced stuff and then go into Javascript, PHP, MySQL as well as some content management systems that will make life a lot more easier for most people. Let me know if you want me to continue.