Udacity's free introductory web development course covering core front-end skills such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, taught as a set of practical lessons. It is the entry point Udacity offers for people starting out in web development.

Commenters point to it as free and practical, and suggest going through it and then building web apps for a portfolio.

On Reddit (2)

1. RecommendsG01denW01f11r/learnprogramming2014in “Goal is to build some basic webapps what's next?”▲ 2

   For front-end, I really don't know much. Just started taking Udacity's classes, and they seem incredibly practical. For back-end, check out Django. It's a Python framework. There's an official tutorial that's rather well-written.

2. Recommendsnegative_epsilonr/learnprogramming2014in “Udacity Nanodegrees in Full Stack/Front-End Developer, is it worth it? I'm college dropout looking to start a career in the tech industry.”▲ 5

   When I look at resumes for front-end developers, I generally look at their resume and look for one thing: Drive. Projects, open source contributions, etc all show drive and help to get people in for the interview. Really, it's more about what you know (especially in web dev) than any piece of…

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