[Codecademy] Am I in the right direction?

[zxcRyan]

** This is my first post on this forum. I am not entirely sure if this is the appropriate section. My apologies if it is not.
/ (background info) I'm only fifteen years old, and I'm learning due to personal interest, not anything professional. I'm also taking programming & software dev. classes in high school next year that are two bells (1hr 36mins) long for a total of two years. They are actually college prep programs that allow you to earn college credit for completing them, and I plan on becoming a computer science major.

Basically, I want to learn as much as I can before I take actual classes. I'm not an absolute beginner, I've done a little bit of programming when I was a kid, but I was merely messing around; nothing serious being done. Visual Basic really introduced me into it, and I later ended up learning Lua. A couple of years later, I got into private servers. Eventually I ended up setting up a Habbo retro on my computer (it wasn't public), and I got to messing around with the code inside of it. I didn't actually know HTML, CSS, or PHP, but I was able to figure it all out.
Languages I really want to learn (not necessarily all right now, just some time in my life):

• HTML & CSS
• PHP & MySQL
• JavaScript/jQuery/AJAX
• Python & Django
• Ruby & Rails

I don't want to ramble too much, but now I'm interested in web design & development, and the problem is I'm not 100% sure where to start actually learning. I found Codecademy, and decided to start the PHP track they had. I've now finished it, but I really feel like I didn't learn much from it. I want to start and finish a few more tracks, but I don't know if it is really beneficial. Here's what I am considering right now:

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   - If you take a look at this, you'll notice it is longer than most tracks. It has a total of 76 sections, and each section has around 10-30+ parts to complete. I'm considering starting/completing this because it looks like it goes a lot more in depth and teaches more.
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   - I've gotten mixed views on this. People tell me to avoid TheNewBoston, claiming that his videos aren't taught correctly and are also outdated. Some tell me otherwise, but I don't really know.

Will these two sources be enough to really introduce me to web design/development before I take actual classes in school? I'm a quick learner, and understand things fast. How far will those two sources take me? Can you tell me why/why not to do them, or recommend other sources and share a few tips?

I'd appreciate any help I can get with learning online. Thank you in advance. (Sorry if this was unnecessarily long, I couldn't help but ramble).

 

[ying]

As far as I'm concerned people have different ways of learning. The key to mastering programming is to find which way suites you best cause one way might work for another and not for you. My way I learned was by watching TheNewBoston's videos. Whoever told you that his videos arent taught correctly is a bullshitter, they might be a bit outdated for current PHP versions, but I learned most of my PHP from him and I find no issues? There are two series of his PHP videos though, one by a guy called alex, and another guy called bucky. My recommendation is that you visit the youtube channel

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the videos are taught by the same guy from thenewboston except they are much more updated. His videos will teach you alot and if you watch most of it you will know PHP very will in my opinion. Afterwards go to codeacademy to evaluate your skills - I have no clue why people usually use codeacademy as a beginners choice to learn coding. It's not noob friendly at all, and its extremely boring...