Whats a good way to start learning HTML?

SpasianNrD

SpasianNrD

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Personally I became interested after getting to know Google Chromes Developer tools. Seeing all the code and how different sites worked with simple tags. Of course to me now its simple, at the time it was a lot. I started really learning by looking at different amateur sites(So all the advanced stuff was out of the picture). I played around in the Developer tools, messing with different tags and such, learning what each one did, me being a teenager I was, I some some pretty serious sites in to pretty silly ones. For example, google.com, I made a Search engine to find the "Babes"....can you blame a guy? Anyways this really helped.
I wanted to know and learn more so I took a class in school, coming to find out that I had nothing to learn! But It is good to have it on my record for collages. Anyways, I learned the full 8 months of a class in one month, just by playing with the code. This seriously is one of the best ways to learn, anything, find the source of it, learn it, love it, code it.... or live it if your looking for love. Good luck with that. :)

What I want to know is if this helped you, or how did you learn HTML?
 
SpasianNrD

SpasianNrD

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Haha yea, that's a good resource, I would hope everyone would know the basis of that. A lot of example code for many web related resources on there. This including is including Bootstrap, which i use a lot for Navigation Bars.
 
GigaGreg

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I have started using codeacademy to learn JavaScript and PHP. W3S is very good, i use it for css reminders.
 
bogner17

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I too have used Code Academy to lean PHP and some python. I also went through the modules which I was quite knowledgeable in already as a refresher and I learnt some new techniques I would recommend this to someone who has never wrote a line of code or script before as a basis.
 
GigaGreg

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Also one of the good places to learn anything is YouTube, there are thousands of good tutorials and channels that teach you stuff. When you are watching a video you can stop and skip it to write your code or if u know already that part, also you can have your video open and the code editor in the same time on one screen or on two screens and do coding while listening and watching.
 
Spelunca

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I've used code academy and I really like its teaching method (show you, hold your hand while you try it out, then give you the freedom to try something of your own). Also it does a great job integrating things you've already learned to all the lessons. Best part: it's free :p

Although I'm gonna be honest, I think the best way to learn html is really relative. Some people learn best from lessons while others learn better from messing around with studying existing codes: I think half the stuff j know about html isn't from the lessons on code academy (though thy help xD) but from tweaking tumblr themes
 
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nasha

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Rather than advising you any links for HTML tutorials I must say you to start with a live project. Deploy every code you learned from any basic guide from web on HTML. You will learn HTML site development in few days from scratch. Best of luck.
 
Genesis

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tangledmemories said:
I usually look at how other themes are made, that's the best way to practice for me.
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That's exactly what I do too. When I had a WordPress blog I used to study all of the reviews and support questions as well. Just to get a hang of the details as well.
 
reichertd

reichertd

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I started way back in the day with basic stuff using the Netscape editor, then looking at other code out there. But things were way easier back then. I have been out of it for many years and I am having a hard time getting back into it.
 
Genesis

Genesis

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It's easier than before. Do yourself a favour and if you're in Firefox just use CTRL+U. And you can read the code of the page. Check the Internet for any Website you really like from a design point of view and do the same. Read through it. The more you read the simpler it gets. All Websites come with CSS. And when you're in the code view you can actually click on the CSS link and then study through the stylesheet as well. Things have just got better Website design wise. Instead of getting complicated with trying to add all that extra code for what the font and style must look like, it's all written out like a recipe. You can now go into that recipe and tweak it to your heart's content. It actually makes sense for the first time.
 
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nawaf

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If you want to learn coding in part time, then the best way I found is to install Udemy on mobile or tablet devices, select the courses, download them for offline learning and you can always learn the codings any where any time with or without internet.

Its very simple and very it was very effective for me as I am always on the move and intermittent internet access.
 
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eichenlaub

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As others have mentioned, codeacademy is great! Also there's some great classes at udemy.com as well.
For step-by-step instruction on almost everything in a format that doesn't put you to sleep and really explains things, search for the newboston on YouTube. The guy has the best tutorials on everything you can imagine!
 
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