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Re:What are the best online web development courses that don... by dang on Sunday February 07, 2016 @11:56PM (#11056413)
We've banned the OP and related accounts for astroturfing.
Re:What are the best online web development courses that don... by dhj on Sunday February 07, 2016 @10:40PM (#11056231)
Just started looking at this one:

http://www.freecodecamp.com/

Free coding camp. Social code review. A certification that includes doing real projects for non-profits. Even an interview prep at the end. I am looking at it as a quick way to brush up on current front end dev. They have HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, D3, Node.js, etc, etc, etc.

Re:What are the best online web development courses that don... by 27182818284 on Sunday February 07, 2016 @09:23PM (#11056072)
I have liked my experience with Pluralsight thus far. It is paid, and therefore the quality is a bit above the background I see elsewhere. I was already employed as a developer when I joined Pluralsight, but it helps me fill gaps in new technologies like require.js or phantom.js
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Re:What are the best online web development courses that don... by jonesb6 on Sunday February 07, 2016 @09:49PM (#11056129)
I've tutored a number of introductory CS students and have found w3schools.com to be a fantastic source of reference material for students. Years ago there was some controversy with the site because it taught web standards / conventions which deviated (slightly) from the consensus of sites like stackoverflow. Since then they've made a number of corrections and for the most part have really great content.

Here [1] is a good discussion on quora on the topic. You'll notice that the main complain is out-dated information when compared to MDN. I would argue that MDN is a much deeper source of information that can overwhelm beginners when all they need to know is say, what a <p> tag is.

Please please please qualify these kinds of statements when giving information to beginners who can be easily swayed in the wrong direction by well-meaning individuals such as yourself.

[1]:https://www.quora.com/Does-W3Schools-really-suck