Where do you learn frontend skills these days?
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A friend of mine has a degree in IT but has been working outside the field for a long time. She's just been laid off and is looking for some online resources to immerse herself in to pick up a new language, get back in the swing of things. It seems like a good plan to me, since stuff's changed a lot in the past ten years or so. I have a bunch of resources to toss at her, see what she likes, but my biggest blindspot is front-end webdev. Where do you recommend picking up html5, modern css, jquery...?
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@yamikuronue I dunno how good it actually is, but the full stack course I took last year gave everyone a Pluralsight account and pointed towards recommended courses in frontend and backend, although we were free to use any courses we found interesting. At least I managed to bolster my skills thanks to that course, although I mainly ended up on the server management side towards the end. (The Tomcat logo is horribly ugly btw.)
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@atazhaia said in Where do you learn frontend skills these days?:
Pluralsight
Good source, but the price is a might steep for someone suddenly without income. Ideally there'd be a site she can absorb information from to fill in the gaps in her knowledge, ideally for free? I don't want to send her to w3schools.
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@yamikuronue That's a good point. I dunno the pricing, but I imagined that could be a problem. Everyone who attended the course got a 6-month sub for free so I didn't have to worry about that part. Come to think of it, in a week it will be a year since it ended. How time flies!
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I was going to recommend Microsoft Virtual Academy, but either they've removed all the Javascript and CSS topics that aren't aimed at beginners, or my searching has failed me. There used to be a couple of good intros there IIRC
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if you're looking to learn the basics i like to use codeacademy for that.
https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-html-css
https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript
https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/jquery
https://www.codecademy.com/courses/make-a-website
https://www.codecademy.com/skills/make-an-interactive-website
etc.they're good courses to get the absolute basics from.
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@accalia Perfect! I passed that along
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I know Mozilla Developer Network got some basic courses too, but I haven't checked them out. Although I found their reference docs quite useful, especially while learning, so there's that too.
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@yamikuronue said in Where do you learn frontend skills these days?:
@atazhaia said in Where do you learn frontend skills these days?:
Pluralsight
Good source, but the price is a might steep for someone suddenly without income. Ideally there'd be a site she can absorb information from to fill in the gaps in her knowledge, ideally for free? I don't want to send her to w3schools.
If she registers for Microsoft's devesentialls, she can get Pluralsight for free for 3 months. ;)
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If you don't mind reading reference material https://platform.html5.org/
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@yamikuronue I became an administrator on this janky interwebs site that will remain nameless and tinkered with some stuff there. I've successfully transferred some of that work to my actual job.
Not that I'm an expert or anything, but if I have an actual need or whatever, I seem to be able to figure stuff out, though a lot of my code will surely horrify people with non-self taught backgrounds.
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@accalia said in Where do you learn frontend skills these days?:
if you're looking to learn the basics i like to use codeacademy for that.
https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-html-css
https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript
https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/jquery
https://www.codecademy.com/courses/make-a-website
https://www.codecademy.com/skills/make-an-interactive-website
etc.
they're good courses to get the absolute basics from.Code Academy stuff is aimed at absolute beginners. Since the friend is a rusty senior, she might find it annoying and condescending.
Not that I have a better suggestion, though. I've learned this shit a LONG time ago and have been gradually maintaining it and expanding it since. I have no idea where you could go to catch up.
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@kt_ said in Where do you learn frontend skills these days?:
@yamikuronue said in Where do you learn frontend skills these days?:
@atazhaia said in Where do you learn frontend skills these days?:
Pluralsight
Good source, but the price is a might steep for someone suddenly without income. Ideally there'd be a site she can absorb information from to fill in the gaps in her knowledge, ideally for free? I don't want to send her to w3schools.
If she registers for Microsoft's devesentialls, she can get Pluralsight for free for 3 months. ;)
I wanna reiterate this, because Pluralsight has tons of great courses and Microsoft devessentials is free. And once you register, you can finish lots of courses within 3 months that they give you.