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The django docs in particular are intuitive to follow and pretty comprehensive. Then stack overflow is good for the stuff that's not in the docs.
I really liked the Udacity course. It's by no means exhaustive or representative of the ecosystem (it focuses on Python/Google App Engine, I took it quite a while ago but I assume it has not changed), but introduces a lot of basic concepts (client/server, templating, routing, caching, security, cookies...) in a very concise and efficient way.
My co-founder taught herself web development using online courses and resources. This “Learning Path” outlines the resources she found most helpful, and lays them out in a sequence that a beginner should be able to follow. We realize this is a curriculum, not the best curriculum. We'd love your feedback on whether this is useful, and what we might change or add. Also if you’re so inclined, we’d love feedback on our p…
I'm trying to teach a friend of mine web-development, but she struggles with OOP. Also I teached programming at a company I worked last year and all the trainees had problems with OOP.
Somehow the basics of OOP came to myself rather easy. I only had problems with the applied stuff, because all tutorials about OOP where with animals and cars.
The people I try to teach mostly have problems with the basic concepts.
This is a great list. I do think 80+% of this material (maybe everything but the "learn to code" piece) is covered in Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book That book singlehandedly took me from "crappy C programmer" to "someone with enough knowledge to be dangerous" as a web dev.
Devops is something not included by majority of web dev classes. Yet it is not ignorable in this profession. Do include something on that.
You have to structure your stuff good, so most of it can be automated. Doing this later can be a real PITA.
I really liked the Udacity course. It's by no means exhaustive or representative of the ecosystem (it focuses on Python/Google App Engine, I took it quite a while ago but I assume it has not changed), but introduces a lot of basic concepts (client/server, templating, routing, caching, security, cookies...) in a very concise and efficient way.
My co-founder taught herself web development using online courses and resources. This “Learning Path” outlines the resources she found most helpful, and lays them out in a sequence that a beginner should be able to follow. We realize this is a curriculum, not the best curriculum. We'd love your feedback on whether this is useful, and what we might change or add. Also if you’re so inclined, we’d love feedback on our p…
How did she tackle OOP? I'm trying to teach a friend of mine web-development, but she struggles with OOP. Also I teached programming at a company I worked last year and all the trainees had problems with OOP. Somehow the basics of OOP came to myself rather easy. I only had problems with the applied stuff, because all tutorials about OOP where with animals and cars. The people I try to teach mostly have problems with…
The only difficult part was some of the implementation. Function calls on "self" took a while to get used to.
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My co-founder taught herself web development using online courses and resources. This “Learning Path” outlines the resources she found most helpful, and lays them out in a sequence that a beginner should be able to follow. We realize this is a curriculum, not the best curriculum. We'd love your feedback on whether this is useful, and what we might change or add. Also if you’re so inclined, we’d love feedback on our p…