How To Learn Web Development for Free

Yes, you can get very nice web development skills online for free. There are so many options out there such as Lynda, Khan Academy, Coursera, Udemy among others that allow you to learn web development online. Here I`m going to highlight my favorite platform and tell you why it is so.

Code Academy

In the year 2014, I sought out to learn programming. Through YouTube and blogs, I had learned that Python was a good programming language to start with. I googled programming learning sites and code academy stood out from the others. Why you ask, because code academy has the best interface. As seen below there are three parts in the interface: instructions,editor and live preview.

Instructions:(Blue area)

This section displays a set of instructions that you are to initiate into the editor. But before the instructions is an example or two of what the code is supposed to look like.

Editor:(Red area)

This is where you type in the code. Whether it is Python, JavaScript or HTML & CSS(as seen in the above image)

Live Preview:(Yellow area)

Here, the result of your code is shown once you hit the run button below the editor.

But since this post is about Web Development; there is a ton of web development stuff available on code academy. Front-end as well as Back-end languages such as JavaScript and PHP can be learned. You can also learn how to use GitHub for version control and SQL for querying your database tables. I highly recommend using code academy.

Below is an image showing the bunch of web development courses that you can take and the estimated number of hours it can take you for each.

Originally published at itsnewton.wordpress.com on February 18, 2017.