Advice for starting to learn to code

Start learning HTML and CSS here:
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-css

Free interactive exercises at Dash/General Assembly:
https://dash.generalassemb.ly/

Supplement your HTML and CSS learning:
http://htmldog.com/guides/

Best first website host for students and faculty:
Reclaim Hosting
Your first domain name registration is free.

Look stuff up and get good answers: HTML
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML

Look stuff up and get good answers: CSS
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

Anything from W3schools — DON’T USE IT!
Do not confuse the bad W3schools with the good, proper W3C
https://www.w3.org/standards/

After you feel comfortable with HTML and CSS, start learning JavaScript.
NOT JAVA! That is a completely different language.
JavaScript makes the web interactive.
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/introduction-to-javascript

Best book for learners — new edition will be published in February 2018:
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Web-Design-Beginners-JavaScript/dp/1491960205

A good book for learning JavaScript and jQuery:
https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-JQuery-Interactive-Front-End-Development/dp/1118531647

Where to write your code

The best code editor is ATOM (Mac and Windows):
https://atom.io/

NOT DREAMWEAVER — never Dreamweaver!

Play with code interactively here:

Links updated Nov 9, 2017

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