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Best site to learn Programming?

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The Day Dreamer

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Like we have Duolingo which is one of the best for learning languages.

Any site to learn programming? Like Jquery, PHP, etc to start with.
 
Another vote for codecademy

Helped me with JS, HTML and jQuery :thumbsup:

Im far from an expert in any of those things but I can do stuff now or at least not be completely lost looking at some JS with jQuery thrown in.
 
Yeah, definitely Codecademy. There's also another one called CodeSchool but it's not free. Some courses are good. Some are not that great.

I've TA-ed beginner HTML, CSS, and JS before. It is NOT enough to do these courses.

I repeat, it is NOT enough to do these courses.

We had students who completed the courses at both the aforementioned sites and still couldn't code at all, much less make a website.

You HAVE to go out into the wild and make websites. Start with simple client-side only websites. BitBalloon allows really fast, easy, and free hosting of your client-side websites. If you only stick with the online courses that hold your hand and tell you what you need to do next, you won't get anywhere.
 
One more vote for codecademy, awesome free courses for HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, Ruby, Python...
It wont make you expert, but definitely it will introduce you to new languages.
Courses and tutorials are great for beginner level, while for advanced level you will have to solve problems alone (Google is your friend).
 
Some alternatives:
HTML5 - HTML5Rocks

HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript - TheCodePlayer

Wide range of programming languages - Programr

HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript - Code Avengers

Ruby, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and iOS - Code School

JavaScript, Python and Ruby - LearnStreet

Wide range of porgramming languages - Khan Academy
 
To be honest with you it all depends on the language you want to learn. I would add:

Perl: www.perlmonks.org

Their tutorials are decent, especially the object oriented ones (if you need to use object oriented per).
 
I will not propose a website, but a very good guide that can be used along web resources...
The missing manual series of books for HTML5, CSS3, jQuery are great, I think they very first thing to do learning web programming. Then, during development you can use resources from the web...
And as long as you see something good on a website, use firebug to find out more about it and ask questions in the forum about how to do it

And as long as you are done with reading these books, try to find the way that some features of these websites have been done:

http://www.statek-psychologia.pl/
http://www.nodeplus.com.cn/

haha, I will also put my latest websites, I am a newbie, i'd like to read opinions

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