Have you ever wanted to create your own computer game? Program your website? Or just learn how to program in the first place? If so, then this blog could be for you. Join me on a journey of discovery as we explore what is web development in programming, how to use it, and what resources are available in order to adapt it as a skill.
Top 7 Websites To Get Your Feet Wet In Web Development
So before we start, let’s briefly discuss the definition of Web Development. Web development refers to the planning, designing, creating and developing of a website(or webpages). It’s broadly classified into 3 types:
- Backend development: Working on “behind-the-scene” of a website
- Frontend development: Working on how the website will appear in front of the viewers
- Full-stack development: As the name suggests, working on both frontend as well as the backend of a website.
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Without further ado let’s get started with the websites, or rather find the resources you can work from:
1. Coursera
Coursera is the largest provider of Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs). In collaboration with top universities like Princeton, Stanford and Yale, Coursera provides opportunities to access a wide range of online courses of high quality.
Earn degrees from a vast number of fields including Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, IT and more. It provides a 7-days free trial, after which you’ll have to pay accordingly to complete your course/program.
2. Codeacademy
As the name suggests, Codeacademy is an online learning platform, providing hands-on experience and an approach to learning code. Select the course(concept) you want to get skilled in, opting for web development here. You can get trained and learn with the help of specified lessons, inclusive of written instructions, guiding you to write code. Gradually you can learn to build real-world projects as well as avail feedback from professional developers.
3. Udemy
Udemy is one of the leading e-learning giants, offering over 80,000 courses online courses. A vast range of courses is available here, inclusive of web development with unlimited access to a series of explanatory video lectures by respective instructors. You can view a few lectures for free to find out whether it’s for you or not, and start paying for your desired course accordingly.
4. Codewars
Codewars is a coding website where you get to enhance your skills with the help of challenges, intriguing right? They provide a platform, kata, where you get small coding exercises to help you strengthen your skills. You can enhance your existing skills as well as expand your understanding of new languages.
5. W3schools
W3schools call themselves “World’s largest web developer site”. They provide a vast variety of resources on programming languages to master web development. Whether you are want to learn from scratch or enhance your existing skills. It is well known in the web development industry for providing quality content and articles along with training programs.
6. Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a Not-for Profit platform that intends to provide free and quality education around the world. It provides video lecture on it’s platform for learners to get trained and enhance their skills. From basics like HTML, CSS and more, to high level programming languages, you can learn it all from here.
7. Pepcoding
Last but not least, Pepcoding. Pepcoding provides over 1200+ Free Resources on Programming, and is further expanding to other fields like NEET, JEE etc. The content provided on Pepcoding is available on NADOS, a pepcoding product, which is a social media platform created to make learning fun and addictive.
From Free Resources to extensive courses and training programs, Pepcoding has it all. You won’t be disappointed with the content available on it’s YouTube channel, and if you want to get a better experience, visit the content section of NADOS.
That’s not it folks, there are several other websites as well, but it’s better to start learning only after you are sure of the resources provided by them. Thank you for reading so far, hopefully this blog will help you.
Top 7 Websites To Get Your Feet Wet In Web Development
Author: Sejal Shaw
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