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Responsive Web Design

freeCodeCamp

21 recommenders · 21 threads · recommended in 9 years, 2014–2023 · score 29.5

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Free self-paced web development curriculum from freeCodeCamp. The Responsive Web Design certification covers HTML and CSS fundamentals, responsive layouts, and includes project work for a portfolio.

Commenters call it a great, free, structured starting point for HTML and CSS, and say the projects help build a portfolio.

Web & Mobile Developmentbeginnerfreeself-paced text#html#css#responsive design#web development#freecodecamp

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On Reddit (26)

  1. Strongly recommendsdimun7r/webdev2023in “Which programming language should I learn in order to try and score a remote job? Do I have to learn multiple?”

    JavaScript is usually a safe bet and would be a good segue from HTML. A free course is good but there is so much good free material online that the most important thing is just picking a source and not switching around too much. I highly recommend FreeCodeCamp with their Web Design, JavaScript…

  2. Strongly recommendsLord_Dunkelziffer89r/learnprogramming2022in “Good free online material for JS/HTML/CSS/C#/SQL and optionally others (mostly for webdev)?”▲ 2

    Check out the certification courses of freecodecamp for web development. They offer great quality and content und lots of tutorial entirely for free.

  3. Strongly recommendsphobzy85r/webdev2019in “Help linking stylesheet to html to insert a background”▲ 1

    No problem. I found this site fairly recently https://www.freecodecamp.org/ it's got a brilliant html / css course which is totally free. You can sift through the course and get to grips with things quickly. Sounds like your textbook already expects you to understand relative/absolute paths but…

  4. Strongly recommendsjmcisne12r/learnprogramming2017in “Are the 12-week coding bootcamps worth the money?”

    The best resource is freecodecamp. Do the entire front end certificate before you do the boot camp. https://www.freecodecamp.org/ Colt steele's boot camp course is really good as well. It will teach you everything you need to know. https://www.udemy.com/the-web-developer-bootcamp/ You can…

  5. RecommendsVIiIsIiIonZr/learnprogramming2023in “Codefinity --- Beware! Stay Away from This Company!”

    Personally for me freecodecamp is very good and it‘s legitimately free, you have courses for html/css, js, python, etc., there‘s a quick pop up every once in a while and they ask if you wanna donate, but you can just click it away.

  6. RecommendsDonKapotr/learnprogramming2023in “What should I do now?”

    Time management is must have for self studying, but probably you jump between subjects, because you have no master plan. - Check your local/country IT market, what stack/framework is required now mostly. - Check FAQ, there're some answers…

  7. RecommendsD2XPartnersr/learnprogramming2023in “Certs/mentor”

    There are many people ready to help in this forum. What's your goal? What do you want to do? If you're looking for free courses and know nothing, you can begin your journey with https://freecodecamp.org. Begin with HTML and CSS. Study and build every day and stretch yourself every day. Do this and…

  8. RecommendsStripperWhorer/learnprogramming2023in “What’s the best online JavaScript course?”

    Codecademy has a great free beginners course. So does freecodecamp.org

  9. RecommendsInstigated-r/webdev2022in “a little help?”▲ 1

    Do a course. Check out the free intro courses on codecademy and freecodecamp.

  10. Recommendsl_am_wildthingr/learnprogramming2022in “Programming languages for Mechanical Engineers”▲ 2

    If you have no programming experience, AtBS and freecodecamp are great courses, though Ive never taken a look at their curriculum. Freecodecamp might be better for general purpose programming, but Im not sure. You could go through the first few sections of each and figure out which one you like…

  11. RecommendsMoesAccountr/learnprogramming2021in “Coding boot camps?”▲ 2

    Congrats on the kid! I was looking into joining a Bootcamp after my kid was born but it was going to set me back about 5k USD which in my country is a lot of money. I decided to instead invest it in my kid and try the free online options and some paid Udemy classes. It still hasn't been a full…

  12. Recommendsbadcodebadyour/learnprogramming2021in “Help a Fire Fighter become a code/developer, please!”▲ 2

    I've been learning how to code for a couple of years in my spare time! I see some people mentioning FreeCodeCamp and I think that's a great place to start, I did their Front End course when I was just starting out, but it's a lot of tutorials and it's very easy to just go through the motions of it…

  13. Recommendsfungigamerr/webdev2021in “I'm 13 and I'm and absolute noob to computers and stuff. I want want to build a website/blog. Where should I start?”▲ 2

    Hey 15 year old developer here, started at 14. You would first want to learn basic html and css, then move onto javascript. You can learn all of these on youtube. I can recommend doing freecodecamp's 10 hr html + css course and its 4hr javascript course. You can them build a few simple websites…

  14. RecommendsRaze321r/webdev2021in “Learn css for wordpress?”▲ 2

    Do you have a basic understanding of HTML? What elements are, what an ID and Class is for an HTML element, etc? If not, I'd recommend starting by learning some HTML first, then work in some CSS knowledge as you learn them side by side. If you do have a base understanding of CSS…

  15. RecommendsaeWAFg05Qarr/webdev2020in “Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread”▲ 1

    I replied to another comment with this: Take the FreeCodeCamp course to establish a firm understanding on the foundations of web development; HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Once you've done that (or if you're brave you could do this side-by-side with FCC) do the full stack Odin project.

  16. Recommendskeyboard_2387r/webdev2019in “I’ve been feeling burnt out in my current line of work and I would like to teach myself web design and coding. Hopefully make a new living. I feel overwhelmed with all the vocabulary and different languages. What path would you recommend to be relevant in 2019 for a newbie? Thank you in advance!”▲ 23

    There are plenty of very high quality free resources for you to learn from. For an absolute newbie, you should start with the basics. Go through this to get an idea of how computers work: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/how-computers-work2. Then, go through this to get an…

  17. Recommendswrenzenzenr/learnprogramming2019in “Son wants to get into programming but doesn't know where to start”▲ 1

    Language are not really that important, although some are easier to learn than others, such as python and JavaScript. You'll generally encounter python, Java and JavaScript in a college environment. Each has it place. The most import thing for your son to do, is to get programming. Programming is…

  18. Recommendswestonreid1r/Entrepreneur2018in “I want to make money online”▲ 5

    Since you’re young with plenty of time, check out freecodecamp They have a zero experience to coding course that spans about 200 hours and teaches you by building apps for nonprofits. You end up with a portfolio to show to potential employers. Odds are that the coding languages will continue to…

  19. RecommendsJiadelr/webdev2016in “New to this, just finished Code academy (html&css course)”

    I feel that more direction might be very helpful for you. Freecodecamp.com has a really great guided web development education course, and it's sets you up to build pretty neat sites. The bigger projects let you decide how to build them. I'm currently on the Wikipedia Search web app, and I've been…

  20. Recommendsbutcherandthelambr/learnprogramming2016in “So I finished codecademy HTML & CSS course, now what? I feel like I learned absolutely nothing”▲ 2

    I would say keep learning. Now go to freecodecamp.com and take their html/css course. You may be surprised that you learned more than you thought, but maybe you didn't.

  21. RecommendsTheChrisRossr/learnprogramming2014in “I finished the HTML/CSS course on Codecademy. Where now?”▲ 1

    I've been checking out the course that http://www.FreeCodeCamp.com has setup, which includes in its challenges the HTML/CSS course you did from Codecademy. Maybe that site and its challenges would be a good path for you to check out?

  22. MentionsWildecityr/learnprogramming2021in “To someone who has 0 knowledge in web dev what will be your best advice?”▲ 2

    Not yet. But I'll think about it after I finish this one. I also completed the Responsive Web Design Certification on FreeCodeCamp, but felt that I need to reinforce some concepts (that's the reason for taking this course). There's other resources you could check out, like The Odin Project and App…

  23. Mentionsnorb_omgr/learnprogramming2021in “I stopped working in order to dedicate myself to learning to code 60+ hours a week, advice / feedback on my self-study strategy much appreciated!”▲ 5

    Coincidentally The Odin Project suggests in the fundamentals track that you take free code camps html and css course. Often they point you to 3rd party info sources they think are worth reading or doing.

  24. MentionsOhCanadiar/learnprogramming2020in “Code Academy VS freecodecamp VS Odin project?”▲ 2

    I'm working on the Odin Project now. I'm halfway through the Web Dev 101 course and it actually sends you over to FCC to do their HTML/CSS course (excluding the projects) to learn some basic syntax for those languages. The Odin project is kind of neat because instead of being this self-contained…

  25. MentionsOct1ronr/webdev2017in “I think we can all take design tips from this website.”

    Spot on, do a course like codeacademy or freecodecamp then once you have a basic understanding on the fundamentals try tackle a small project. /u/trethompson

  26. CriticizesTheFuzzyPumpkinr/webdev2019in “Beginner Questions - April 19, 2019”▲ 1

    There's no algorithms in the Responsive Web Design cert. That's the JavaScript one. ​ Neriiux, I started there and thought it was great, but I supplemented with other courses. I did the Responsive Web Design series from University of London concurrently (Coursera, don't pay). The problem…

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