Get a taste of coding with this affordable and beginner-friendly web developer course
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ShutterStock / timofey123Breaking into the world of web development takes a lot of work. There are coding languages to learn and manipulate, graphic designs to tinker with, and connections to make with those who can get you jobs. That’s a lot to juggle, and unless you have extremely patient friends with coding experience, chances are you’ll be going it alone to start off.
If you’re looking for an all-in-one entryway into web development, Udemy is offering a course entitled Become a Web Developer from Scratch that may be of interest to you.
Instructor Victor Bastos starts with the essentials, explaining HTML and how to make a page of text out of code. From there, Bastos takes students through web technologies of all sorts that are necessary to create and manage web pages; the basics of both front-end languages such as JavaScript and back-end tools such as PHP and MySQL will be taught. By the end of the course, students will have built five web projects to fill out their portfolio, as well as their own portfolio website to present it on.
There are downsides to diving into the world of coding in this manner; by trying to fit such a wide variety of languages and technologies into one course, it can be difficult to get depth at any. However, having the chance to try a whole selection of web tools may allow you to figure out which aspect of the web development process you want to delve further into in your next course. Right now, the course is available for just $15, so if you’ve been waiting to give creating your own websites a try, it might be a good time to start.
Become a Web Developer from Scratch, $15 (originally $199), available at Udemy. [93% off with the code INSIDER2016 through February 1, 2016.]