Codeacademy

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I hear a lot about this website codeacademy?

Apparently teaches you how to code. Can anyone vouch for this? Is is a good way to learn proper coding? It's also totally free so its an attractive proposition...
 
Learned CSS using CA and it was pretty helpful. I liked the fact that you can write the code live as you learn each lesson. Definitely a good course for noobs.
 
Their lessons and exercises are a great way to learn the syntax for any giving programming language. I myself used it to brush up on advanced arrays in PHP.

I would recommend it if you want to get some good practice on learning the syntax of whatever language you're attempting to learn.
 
Another great one is udacity (google it, I can't post links yet).

And if you are willing to pay I strongly recommend Pluralsight - it has a lot of advanced stuff, but also some great introductions for beginners. I think they have a free trial which unlocks all videos, and I've also seen 1 month free passes on the internet in the past.

They are all great if you are conscientious and spend enough time and energy learning.
 
There's some awesome links to free university standard courses over at code.org. It's endorsed by Mark Zuckerburg, Bill Gates and the likes.
 
What I did was use codecademy (no "a" between the "code" and the "cademy") to learn Python and after that I used thenewboston(.org) tutorials on YouTube.
I think once you are done learning some language it is pretty easy to move to another one - most of the time the only thing that changes is the syntax and Python is pretty easy to learn... and it can be used to create scrapers. :D
 
Learned CSS using CA and it was pretty helpful. I liked the fact that you can write the code live as you learn each lesson. Definitely a good course for noobs.

CSS isnt code. Its at markup language. Fail.
 
From what I hear, those places are a good start, but not if you actually want to make something intense. Read some of Larry Ullman's books if you are a COMPLETE beginner, that's what I did and I understand so much now.
 
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