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Which books and/or online resources would HN recommend for a person with a non-technical background?
http://htmldog.com/guides/html/beginner/gettingstarted/
He will get context on what HTML is, and how it interacts with the browser. It's much easier to internalize knowledge with this website than it is elsewhere.
http://htmldog.com - Hands down the best way to learn HTML and CSS. It's free! http://htmldog.com/guides/html/beginner/gettingstarted/ He will get context on what HTML is, and how it interacts with the browser. It's much easier to internalize knowledge with this website than it is elsewhere.
It's not always the case but for html/css, learning by doing is amazing.
https://www.bento.io/tracks/front-end - front end track
https://www.bento.io/grid/ - all their tutorial recommendations
They hand-pick some of the best free tutorials for each of the technologies you might need (including the other ones mentioned here) and even have curated tracks for front end.
Best online resource: http://learn.shayhowe.com/
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/web
"To save your name type:"
var name = "Sergio";
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/web
Personally I think CodeAcademy is just a bad meme. They offer cheap tutorials such as: "To save your name type:" var name = "Sergio"; "Good job! Now you know what a variable is. What? I have yet to see one person learn something useful using CodeAcademy except paste what the terminal is telling them to paste. I would stay away from this site.
Respectfully, OP was asking for resources related to learning HTML and CSS from a non-technical point of view. From a standing start, JavaScript is a way down the line in the web development part -- not the beginnings of HTML and CSS for web design.
Sure, Codecademy is not the be-all solution, but they're accessible enough to get started for a broad section of non-technical folks, hence my recommendation.
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Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally I think CodeAcademy is just a bad meme. They offer cheap tutorials such as: "To save your name type:" var name = "Sergio"; "Good job! Now you know what a variable is. What? I have yet to see one person learn something useful using CodeAcademy except paste what the terminal is telling them to paste. I would stay away from this site.
>Personally I think CodeAcademy is just a bad meme. Respectfully, OP was asking for resources related to learning HTML and CSS from a non-technical point of view. From a standing start, JavaScript is a way down the line in the web development part -- not the beginnings of HTML and CSS for web design . Sure, Codecademy is not the be-all solution, but they're accessible enough to get started for a broad section of non-…
"Copy paste this to pass this lesson" - No context given, just do this to pass. That's not good learning.