Follow
DevelopmentLearning ResourcesWeb

What are the best resources to learn web development?

10
Options 
Considered
34
User 
Recs.
Last 
Updated
Related Questions
Activity
Ad
Have feedback or ideas?
Discord logoJoin our community
on Discord
Here’s the Deal
Slant is powered by a community that helps you make informed decisions. Tell us what you’re passionate about to get your personalized feed and help others.

10 Options Considered

10 Options ConsideredPriceLicenseLanguages
Mozilla Developer Network
CC-BY-SA–
Codecademy
–HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby, Python
freeCodeCamp
–HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Code School
–HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, Objective-C
Lynda
–Java, JavaScript, C++, PHP, Ruby, HTML, CSS,MySQL
See Full List

Mozilla Developer Network

Add Video or Image
Endi Sukaj
Aryan Garg
Top Pro

The range of topics is wide

•••
Great resource for beginners to learn about how websites function, and the guide then moves onto writing and playing around with front-end technologies.
Endi Sukaj
Paolo
Алексей Чемакин
Top Pro

Close to first-hand information

•••
The best information sources are the W3C, JavaScript, Golang etc. specs, but they are too hard to read. All these videos (lynda, udemy, mail.ru, etc.) and articles may and do contain outdated and sometimes incorrect information.
Chloe Montanez
Top Con

No exercises to work with

•••
See 1 more ProSee 1 more Pro

Codecademy

Add Video or Image
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

Excellent progression

•••
Codeacademy doesn't overwhelm beginners with information. It gives bite-sized information, the bare minimum needed to finish a task and get to the next one. As the course progresses, it slowly fills in background information.
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

Bite-sized lessons to help you stay focused

•••
Each lesson in code-academy focuses on a single concept, and repetition is provided to drill the concept.
Gilles Migliori
Top Pro

User friendly

•••
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

Good built-in editor

•••
Codeacademy has a powerful, beginner-friendly integrated development environment (IDE) that can also be used outside of curriculum.
Laura Kyle
Top Pro

Engaging teaching style

•••
Right from the start, users write code. They start small in an environment that has constant feedback and gradually progress to more complex concepts. Users can see code results instantly, giving great feedback.
Laura Kyle
Top Con

Lack of context

•••
Codecademy is great for providing a hands-on approach, but there is a lack of context regarding how to start a project in real life. While users may learn how to code using Codecademy's interface, they may not have any idea how to code independently.
Laura Kyle
Top Con

Not the best structure for quick refreshers

•••
The content of the lessons is aimed very much at people just starting to learn how to code. This is perfect for beginners but if you want to use Codecademy to refresh your knowledge the lessons are not designed to be quickly done.
Laura Kyle
Top Con

Allows infinite loops to run

•••
If you run an infinite loop, the browser freezes. Many other similar websites will give you an error, preventing the loop from running. Though not a bug, the lack of feature to stop infinite loops from running can be quite frustrating to beginners.
Laura Kyle
Top Con

Buggy

•••
Codecademy is known to have many bugs which interfere with the editor, resulting in error messages despite having the correct answer.
See 7 more Pros & ConsSee 7 more Pros & Cons

freeCodeCamp

Add Video or Image
Jose J. Breijo
Top Pro

Welcoming, active community

•••
freeCodeCamp strongly encourages interacting with other learners and experienced programmers. They provide chatrooms which are always active and full of members happy to answer any questions you may have. Pair programming (programming with another user) is encouraged as a great way to work through...
Jose J. Breijo
Top Pro

Completely free

•••
Free for anyone who wants to take the camp.
Jose J. Breijo
Top Pro

Self-paced

•••
There is no set schedule with freeCodeCamp. You can work through the program as fast or as slow as you want.
Jose J. Breijo
Top Pro

Gain real world experience while helping nonprofits

•••
Once you've completed all the courses and practice levels on freeCodeCamp, you are able to participate with other learners on developing software for non-profits. It's an amazing way to gain experience and build your portfolio as a developer, while helping out a non-profit organization.
Jose J. Breijo
Top Pro

Open source

•••
Due to freeCodeCamp being open source, you are able to contribute to the program that helped teach you how to code in the first place. It's a great way to give back and gain experience.
Jose J. Breijo
Top Pro

Browser-based

•••
All courses used by freeCodeCamp are done in the browser, rather than students having to set up their own environment. This makes it much easier for beginners to get started.
Jose J. Breijo
Top Pro

Two certificates available

•••
There are currently two certificated available (Front End Development and Back End Development) that you can get once you've completed all the projects. There is a third certificate in the works (Data Visualization).
Jose J. Breijo
Top Pro

Actively developed

•••
They are frequently updating courses and adding new material.
Jose J. Breijo
Top Con

Excessive focus on the basics

•••
This platform focuses too much on the basics.
See 7 more ProsSee 7 more Pros

Code School

Add Video or Image
WhiteLilac
Top Pro

Video tutorials

•••
Videos give an overview of the course/lesson plan before a single line of code is written. This gives context and a general understanding of what is possible and how teaching will be approached.
WhiteLilac
Top Pro

Fun and engaging teaching style

•••
The instructors often use humour throughout the videos while letting their passion for the topic show.
WhiteLilac
Top Pro

In-depth courses

•••
Code School is not just for beginners to programming, but provides plenty of intermediate and advanced courses for students as their skills grow.
WhiteLilac
Top Pro

Paths for learning different skills

•••
While you can jump into any video you like, there is also the option to follow a path for what you are wanting to learn. These give a nice direction if you are wanting to improve on a particular area and guide you into what to do next.
WhiteLilac
Top Pro

Practice the code after each video

•••
After each video, there are a series of challenges that give you a chance to apply what you just learned. The great thing about these challenges are that they force you to think through a problem, and use the new skills to solve it. It's not just regurgitating facts; it requires some effort.
WhiteLilac
Top Pro

Videos show how to build an app in real time

•••
Soup to Bits is a series of videos that shows a developer creating an app from scratch in real time. It's easy to pause a video and follow along with the developer.
WhiteLilac
Top Con

Requires paying to complete courses

•••
Although the beginning of each course is free and you can see if you are interested in pursuing it, to complete the course you must pay.
WhiteLilac
Top Con

A bit too basic

•••
There is not a lot of advanced content.
See 6 more Pros & ConsSee 6 more Pros & Cons

Lynda

Add Video or Image
WhiteLilac
Deano1406
Top Pro

Quality and high production value

•••
Lynda produce a real quality learning, top notch video and audio with the industry leaders running the training.
Belle
Top Pro

Huge amount of courses available

•••
Right now, they have over 600 for development, 700 for design, 1,200 for business, 700 for web development, and 700 courses for photography.
Belle
Top Pro

There's a free trial available

•••
If you're not convinced about the product, you can still try it out for ten days without paying for it.
Kristaps
HilariousVoipel
Top Con

No forum/space to ask questions regarding the courses

•••
You're pretty much on your own if you have any queries, unless you get lucky and find something on reddit.
See 2 more ProsSee 2 more Pros

PluralSight

Add Video or Image
Monika
Abdullah Hilson
Top Pro

You can see the professionals coding

•••
Monika
Paolo
Doug Bromley
Top Pro

Very rapidly updated with new courses every week

•••
Sometimes 10-15 courses can be released per month, keeping up with tech trends much better than the competition.
Monika
Abdullah Hilson
Top Con

No code challenges or quizzes

•••
You have no exercises to do on your own, only videos.
Monika
Abdullah Hilson
Top Con

Not free

•••
It is possible to have 1 month free with a Microsoft subscription, but after that, you will have to pay.
Ryan
Doug Bromley
Top Con

No badges

•••
Team Treehouse has a badge scheme that can be linked to your LinkedIn. PluralSight doesn't.
See 3 more Pros & ConsSee 3 more Pros & Cons

MIT OpenCourseWare

Add Video or Image
Aryan Garg
Top Pro

Independent study course

•••
It includes all resources and course materials to get you excited about and interested in programming.
Know any negative aspects of this option?

Hackr.io

Add Video or Image
Rohit Duggal
Top Pro

Recommendation for every programming language/framework/library

•••
Found Python as well as Jenkins:)
Rohit Duggal
Top Pro

Nice filters

•••
Free, Video, Book, Beginner, Advanced, etc.
Rohit Duggal
Top Pro

Community Trust

•••
Instead of getting a recommendation from a single dev, you get recommendation from the entire programming community.
Know any negative aspects of this option?
See 2 more ProsSee 2 more Pros

Udemy

Add Video or Image
Endi Sukaj
Trond Grøntoft
Top Pro

They run campaigns fairly frequently where they discount courses

•••
Most courses are discounted when they run the campaigns and the discounts can be substantial.
Trond Grøntoft
Top Pro

Easy to identify the best courses

•••
All cores have several free lessons so you can try and see if the teaching style suits you.
Endi Sukaj
Trond Grøntoft
Top Pro

Not subscription based

•••
You buy a course and can access it for life.
Alex
Top Pro

Friendly community

•••
Both on site and on various social networks Udemy aims to create a community of friendly people that can help each other out.
Alex
Top Pro

Offers intermediate and advanced courses

•••
Udemy offers plenty of courses for beginner programmers, but also has a large variety of more advanced courses to choose from.
Alex
Top Con

Most courses are expensive

•••
While Udemy does offer free courses, most of them are around $100.
See 4 more ProsSee 4 more Pros

HTMLhouse

Add Video or Image
pbake
Top Pro

Instant feedback

•••
The side-by-side editor immediately shows what your code looks like as you write it.
pbake
Top Con

No learning resources

•••
You'll need to know HTML, CSS, etc. skills to use this tool.
See flagged products

34 Community Recommendations

Aryan Garg
Benjamin Philippe
Trond Grøntoft
pbake
Travis Rigg
Doug Bromley
Barbara Glowa
Exocet
Ray
Belle
Abdullah Hilson
+14
Request recommendations from the community
Rohit Duggal
Rohit
Contributor for 8 months
11
Total 
Recs.
1K
Total 
Karma
Hackr.io
Recommended 3 months ago
All resources on Hackr.io are submitted and voted by the programming community for new learners to get best recommendations. Useful, saves a lot of time.
Pro
 Community Trust
Pro
 Nice filters
Pro
 Recommendation for every programming language/framework/library
See full
pbake
pbake
Contributor for 7 months
8
Total 
Recs.
435
Total 
Karma
HTMLhouse
Recommended 5 months ago
Easy little tool for seeing what some HTML looks like quickly.
Con
 No learning resources
Pro
 Instant feedback
See full
Τάσος Χαλκιάς
Τάσος
Contributor for 2 years
8
Total 
Recs.
790
Total 
Karma
Mozilla Developer Network
Recommended 5 months ago
I use it as a JavaScript reference and I have to say that it is the most complete, credible and up-to-date resource I have found so far.
Pro
 Close to first-hand information
Con
 No exercises to work with
Pro
 The range of topics is wide
See full
Currently displaying 3 out of 34 total recommendations.
I Recommend...
Help millions of people make better decisions.
Each month, over 1.7 million people use Slant to find the best products and share their knowledge. Pick the tags you’re passionate about to get a personalized feed and begin contributing your knowledge.
undefined