Where to learn Programming?

It’s been a big concern for many that from where they can start learning programming, which platform they should choose to start with? In today’s article I will be covering all of those free or paid programs which can be very useful for any newbie to start learning any programming language.

Before starting the post we will first assume two thing:

• One is that you have basic knowledge of HTML/CSS
• And second is that you have basic English skills to understand these courses that we are going to share.

Before we start the post, please see our previous article about 7 most useful programming languages that you should learn in 2015.

Now choose a language for yourself, let’s say you want to be a web developer so choose programs that will help you in your web development career.

Learning mobile frameworks doesn’t make sense to make a website. Before starting with any course make sure that you research about it on internet. As far as web development is concerned let me clear a few things to you:

• PHP – Is a widely used language to do the back-end job,(like connecting web to MySQL database and getting information from it, Facebook is a good example of how PHP and MySQL can work in collision).
• Javascript – A front-end development language used to make webpages interactive, it also has many useful libraries like jQuery and Prototype. It is also used to make web and mobile applications.
• HTML  – Is a front-end markup language, it can be considered as bones of a website
• CSS – Tells the browser how to style HTML elements, like coloring, size and effects etc.

However, if you are looking to make mobile and web apps, then look for Javascript frameworks that are used to make mobile apps such as AngularJS.

So let us go to the first platform to start our programming classes on internet:

Codecademy

As my first recommendation will be Codecademy, there are more than one reason for that. The first reason is that their courses are completely free which means that you will not even need to pay a single penny to them and you can grab all that knowledge from them for free.

Codecademy courses are also very easy to learn, they have a very user-friendly interface with a cool on-screen console which helps you to determine what you have done and what does your code will result. One another cool feature their on-screen console has is that it can find your mistake that you have done in your code and will show an alert message giving some solutions to rectify your code.

You can also use their free forums to find out that what you have done wrong. There are already tens of active programmers who are always there to help you out.

You can learn many languages including, Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby and Ruby on Rails(a more advance version of Ruby), Perl and much more. You can also learn Javascript libraries like jQuery, also learn AngularJS.

They also offer web development courses where you will learn to build websites with HTML and CSS, later you can learn their “Make a interactive webpage” tutorial where they will let you that how you can make your first interactive page with jQuery.

All in all, Codecademy should be your first choice to start with.

w3schools

Now when you have some basic consideration of few programming languages like PHP, Javascript and other libraries. It’s time for you to enhance your skills, w3schools offers variety of different courses including Javascript, PHP, AngularJS, jQuery, AppML, JSON and you can also learn AJAX(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) used to make webpages faster.

However, you will find w3schools’ courses a bit difficult and lengthy but learning their courses will be a valuable asset for you. They will clear many aspects of programming to you and how these languages are used in the field to make awesome webpages and mobile applications. By the way, all of their courses are completely free however you will need to pay 100$ to get a certificate from them.

TreeHouse

Now when you have some good know how of Programming, It’s time to spent a few bucks to make yourself a complete programmer. TreeHouse, is a great platform for you to learn and clear few of new programming concepts.

They offer courses for PHP, front-end web development, iOS development, Python, Ruby, web designing and Java. You can also learn WordPress codex after which you will be able to create your own WordPress themes, but you will need to spent some cash for it.

Udacity

After completing all the courses given above, you will surely have had surely earned some good knowledge about web and program development. Now it’s time for you to recall all the things you have learnt, for this I will recommend to do few courses of Udacity.

Perhaps you will learn a few new things, watch some videos and try to learn and implement some examples.

What now?

Now when you have learned a specific programming languages, let’s say PHP. It’s time for you to practice your skills. For this start making a project, it could be your dream to make a website like Facebook. And believe me, if you have a dream and guts to accomplish your task, you are just 1 step away from achieving your life destination.

Also take help of communities like Stackoverflow and Quora when you are stuck some where. Try to learn new things every time and make sure that you implement what you learn.

Here are few of more Programming concepts that may help you to become a more full-scaled developer.

• Principles of Object Oriented Programming
• Object Oriented programming or PDO?