Ask HN: What Should My Little Bro Learn After HTML & CSS?

Javascript. jQuery is a good onboarding spot, or jQueryUI. After that, teach him how to modify jQuery itself, thus learning Javascript.

Here is what I will suggest :

1. CSS Preprocessing Language : Any one of LESS or SASS.

2. Twitter Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation.

3. Concepts of UI/UX Design.

4. Let him do some projects and hone his skills. How about making his own website/portfolio or making some HTML templates/themes and try selling it on marketplaces like themeforest?

5. Once he becomes good at UI/UX Design & Development he can then focus on back-end. I would suggest him to go with Python & Flask. Learning Python language will not only help him in web application development but it will also allow him to explore & play other interesting stuff like Machine Learning, Computer Vision, etc.

I went to jQuery after HTML/CSS. It's been extremely useful, and it was pretty simple to pick up.

I went HTML then PHP (hadn't discovered CSS yet in 2004), then MySQL, then back to HTML/CSS. Then Javascript, jQuery, Ruby/Rails, since then.

But I would say rails. Ruby/Rails is way easier than Javascript for new devs I feel like.

Lisp, so he knows how much fun programming can be before sinking back into the cesspool of more conventional languages.

Thank you for all your responses, I'll pass that information onto him :)

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Learn rails. It could be fun.

Javascript. Then Rails.

- Depends on what direction he plans on heading. Does he want to stick as a web developer or move onto Mobile & Desktop App development? I'll agree with others and say JavaScript/PHP. It wouldn't hurt him to learn about Java/C++ as well. People talk about Go all the time, but I've never jumped into it.