Ask HN: Resources to Learn Web Development

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I am a (cash poor) student and I have programed in java and C++ but I haven't done anything related to web development yet. I want to try and start to teach myself some basic stuff but I have no idea where to start. Anybody have any tips?

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This is a great resource to start:

http://www.w3schools.com/

That looks nice. Thanks!

I believe http://www.w3schools.com should be avoided.

Try this instead: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Web_Development

(The info on this Mozilla site is good and it also has many links to other sites that will help you. Every link I checked out was better quality than the W3Schools site, and there are also some video tutorials thrown in, if you're more of a visual learner.)

css-tricks.com has a ton of great snippets for when you've gotten more comfortable with HTML/CSS/Javascript. Chris Coyier is very knowledgeable and writes great tutorials.

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