Suggestions for complete beginners

Question

In a sense I’m a beginner. I laughably dabbled with HTML back around the early 2000’s. Then I discovered bars and boys... now I’m back and at the beginning. Any suggestions of where to start? Thought about diving back into HTML but am told from coding friends that that’s a horrible idea, yet they’ve offered little to no help at a starting point.

Answer 1

1. You are in Sololearn (course + community), and this is a good starting point for beginners.
2. I've started from ready website templates (you can find free templates in Internet). Just download them and view the source codes (and play with them, change them and look what happens).
You will learn more with this method than Sololearn. SL can help you to learn the basics alongside your practical experiences. Believe me, this is a good practice FOR EVERY BEGINNER.

Feel free to contact me every time that you have a question.

Answer 2

"Starting point to other languages "!?
As I am not a professional programmer, I try to help you with my experience :

I started with Html. Visual attractiveness of the html web pages affected me.
( shapes, animations, awesome colors, beautiful fonts, changeable size of elements, &…)
All the functionality and appearance with low volume code.

# Some features about html that I like :
- Working with html is simple: If you edit a part of a html template code, you can see quickly a visual effect, and therefore know what that part of code was about, so can learn html quickly as a beginner; in [for example:] C++ you may see just errors and learn nothing.
and finally, results of 50 line html code and results of 50 line C++ code aren't the same.
- Isn't complicated: Simply understandable. You don't need to define anything.
- Easily executable: You write the code with a text editor not an special app (every text editor will work), and execute it with a web browser.

# My Advise: Choose The One That Matches Your Soul Better.
Your soul leads you in world of programming languages.

Answer 3

Thanks! I appreciate that. There are a few sites my husband told me about (can’t remember them off the top of my head). I guess my main thing is finding a language that would be a good starting point to learn other languages.