Nebeolisa Samson
BEST WEBSITES TO LEARN FRONT-END
As a web developers, front-end development is one of the required key skills, because there are many needs for programmers with excellent front-end development skills. Today, Coding and programming are the most attractive courses for developing any website and the online education provides courses for web development, coding and programming.
There are hundreds of omline tutorials for front-end development. And in my own opinion, I believe that no other technology or language have the same amount of tutorials and content on the web as the front end tutorials and content available across the web. This can be overwhelming for beginners, because they get confused of where, and how to start.
There is no best
website to learn front-end development. Any website/school where you create
code as part of the learning experience is a good choice. There are many choices out there, but none
is better than the other. Each website has it's ups and downs, some might have live mentor, or community
of people to help you when you are stuck, some can provide a good live environment to help you learn by
experimenting.
In this article, I will be listing some of the websites for learning web development.
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Mostly Article Websites/school:
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Mostly Video Websites/school:
Mozilla Developer Network is the best reference guide for any level of programming. It is an Up-to-date and confirme documented repository and learning resource for web developers. MDN is maintained by the developer and technical writers community, and has hosted thousands of documents on various topics, such as: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Node. MDN courses are free, the platform includes pratical example to make understanding easy and they offer test question for you to practice what you learn from each page. Since MDN is a documentation, their courses are mostly not articles. Note You can still find some of thier Videos on Youtube.
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W3School Is a great reference guide for any level of programming. This platform offers courses covering all aspect of web development. Many of the explanation done in the W3schools documentation are precised and to the point. So it serve as a great reference guide for quick understand and making use of codes snippet. W3schools provides live environment for practices, code snippet to be used for free and a visual example of the finish result of code implementations. W3School is a free online resource that offer quiz, Examples and certificates. Note: the platform also have paid courses and The certificates are not free. They also offers free web sites template. Currently you can host your website on W3schools using the W3School Spaces. You can host just one website for free, and have to pay for more than one websites.
FreeCodeCamp is an interactive learning Web platform, an online community forum, chat rooms, online publications, non-profit organization and local organizations that are designed to enable access to Web development resources. FreeCodeCamp has a community of people traveling the same path, which may be able to provide the equivalent mentoring to coding. freecodecamp provides hours of interactive coding challenges and web development projects and projects coding contribution to an open-source for non-profits at the end of its training cycle. The FreeCodeCamp platform is a free platform that provides both videos and article learning resources for beginners level, intermediary level and advanced level of web development. FreeCodeCamp also provides learning certificates and blog posts where developers share their ideas and approach to making use of a technologies, languages or syntaxes and also to solving a problems.
Codecademy is an online interactive platform that provides free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, Swift, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. Codecademy has live mentors and provides a specific path through a subject with a live environment. Most of the courses at Codecademy are free, while some are paid courses. Note: The paid courses/plan offers additional tools, courses and community support. Codecademy is best to gain a beginners understanding of coding.
Udemy is an open online learning and teaching platform.
Udemy is a platform that allows instructors to build online courses on their preferred topics.
Using Udemy's course development tools, instructors can upload videos, source code for developers,
PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, audio, ZIP files and any other content that learners might find
helpful. Instructors can also engage and interact with users via online discussion boards.
- wikipedia. Note: this platform is not just for web development but a mulipurpose
platform where courses including business and enterpreneurship, health and fitness, language, music,
and technology are offered. Udemy have both free and paid courses, depending on the instructor.
Recommended courses for beginners in web development to try out:
- The Complete Front-End Web Development Course
- The Web Developer Bootcamp 2022
Coursera is a free-to-audit online learning and teaching platform. The platform uses a more academic approach in teaching (That is, after learning you might be give an assignments to submit and be graded or a quiz/exam that will be graded based on your performance and the feedback will also be there for you to view. ). Most of the courses at Coursera are provided by professors from actual universities. Coursera courses are of different varieties and not just for web developments. The courses are free, but you'll need to pay to get access to specific features such as graded assignments, mentorship, and certificates. Coursera courses are Mostly video based, but you can also have access to reading materials and discussion forums.
Recommended courses for beginners in web development to try out:
- Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTMl, and CSS
- Front-End Web Development With React
- Responsive Website Development and Design Specialization
LinkedIn is a platform primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job seekers to post thier CVs and employers to post jobs. However, LinkedIn is also a good learning platform that provides video courses. Courses at LinkedIn fall into four categories: Technology, Business, Creative, and Certifications and courses are offered by the industry experts of this four categories. LinkedIn offers certificate at the end of every course which can be posted directly on your Linkedin and to your LinkedIn CV, but Courses at LinkedIn are not free. To my understanding your first course at LinkedIn is free and few LinkedIn courses are not paid for also.
Recommended courses for beginners in web development to try out:
- Become a Software Developer
- Become a Full-Stack Web Developer
Skillshare is an online learning Community that provides courses for creatives, technology and entrepreneurs. Courses in Skillshare include illustrations, design, photography, video, freelance, etc. Courses in Skillshare are not free, but they offer free trial on the thier Premium plan which gives you full access to its library of classes and courses. Note: it is possible to sign up for a free month on Skillshare, gain access to courses, and cancel the subscription before the month end to avoid being charged. Most of the courses are taught by excellent teachers.
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I also recommend beginners to try out courses by Asabeneh Yetayeh
. His courses are all well detailed
with many examples and exercises to make sure that you understand and able to implement what you learned.
He focuses on steps by steps teaching to achieve a particular goal, and he also made provision of project
to be done and used in your resume. If you are still facing difficulties in understanding the basic
of programming, I recommend you try out his courses.
Recommended courses by Asabeneh Yetayeh
Summary
Searching for a good palce to learn can be hard and overwhelming Sometimes, especially if you are still new in web development. Discovering how to learn and make use of your learning platform also requires some learning which can also be an issue. To make things easier, When searching for a learning platform do keep an open spirit. Don't start your learnig journey by comparing platforms, just know that any platform you can learn, apply what you have learnd to something and get wanted result is a good platform. Start off with the materials that a of reach to you at the moment, and as time goes by you will find the platform that best suits your needs. I recommend not only focusing on video based platforms or only article based platforms, but a combination of both is a good practice. Never stop learnig and continue to improve your skills!.
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