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[Codecademy] Am I in the right direction?
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<blockquote data-quote="zxcRyan" data-source="post: 267025" data-attributes="member: 43071"><p><span style="font-size: 10px">** 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.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>/ (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.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Languages I really want to learn (not necessarily all right now, just some time in my life):</span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">HTML & CSS</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">PHP & MySQL</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">JavaScript/jQuery/AJAX</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Python & Django</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ruby & Rails</li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 12px">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:</span></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/code-year" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Code Year</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> - 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.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=11" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">TheNewBoston (200 Video playlist about learning PHP)</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> - 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.</span></li> </ol><p>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?</p><p></p><p>I'd appreciate any help I can get with learning online. Thank you in advance. <span style="font-size: 10px">(Sorry if this was unnecessarily long, I couldn't help but ramble).</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zxcRyan, post: 267025, member: 43071"] [SIZE=2]** 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. [I]/ (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.[/I] [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]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):[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]HTML & CSS [*]PHP & MySQL [*]JavaScript/jQuery/AJAX [*]Python & Django [*]Ruby & Rails [/LIST] [SIZE=3]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:[/SIZE] [LIST=1] [*][URL='http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/code-year'][SIZE=3]Code Year[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3] - 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.[/SIZE] [*][URL='http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=11'][SIZE=3]TheNewBoston (200 Video playlist about learning PHP)[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3] - 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.[/SIZE] [/LIST] 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. [SIZE=2](Sorry if this was unnecessarily long, I couldn't help but ramble).[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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