Back to basics - "Intro to" courses to get back into coding

Back to basics - "Intro to" courses to get back into coding

It happens to everyone. You start or get back into something and you either get distracted, busy with something else or lose motivation and take a break. This happens with coding too. It's happened to me, requiring me to revisit "intro to" courses to get a refresher before continuing with the next step of the learning process.

For example, I've taken a bunch of Python courses and got far in the Coursera curriculum but it's been so long since I've done anything with Python, I'd need a basics refresher if I wanted to continue to learn anything more advanced. More recently, I completed the Responsive Web Design certification at freeCodeCamp but again took too long of a break (because life), so I found myself taking some intro to HTML, CSS and JavaScript courses on Codecademy before continuing the JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certification.

If this happened or is currently happening to you, I put together a list of "intro to" courses that should help you get back into learning and advancing your developer skills. The other advantage of going through these again is they may have been updated with new concepts and technologies you weren't aware of when you first learning the basics.

Intro to HTML courses:

Intro to HTML and CSS | Udacity
In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals web development, along with best practices and professional problem-solving techniques using Developer Tools.
HTML Tutorial: Learn HTML For Free | Codecademy
Learn basic HTML, including how to place text on a page, add images & videos, and share data in HTML tables. This is the first step in creating web pages to help you tweak your website and more.
Introduction to HTML
At its heart, HTML is a fairly simple language made up of elements, which can be applied to pieces of text to give them different meaning in a document (Is it a paragraph? Is it a bulleted list? Is it part of a table?), structure a document into logical sections (Does it have a header? Three columns…
freeCodeCamp.org
Learn to code. Build projects. Earn certifications.Since 2015, 40,000 graduates have gotten jobs at tech companies including Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Intro to CSS courses:

CSS Tutorial: Learn CSS For Free | Codecademy
In this CSS tutorial, you’ll set up file structures, beautify text and colors using CSS selectors to create the layouts and webpages you dream of all in 11 hours.
CSS first steps
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used to style and lay out web pages — for example, to alter the font, color, size, and spacing of your content, split it into multiple columns, or add animations and other decorative features. This module provides a gentle beginning to your path towards CSS mastery wi…
freeCodeCamp.org
Learn to code. Build projects. Earn certifications.Since 2015, 40,000 graduates have gotten jobs at tech companies including Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Intro to JavaScript courses:

JavaScript Tutorial: Learn JavaScript For Free | Codecademy
Learn JavaScript and Javascript arrays to build interactive websites and pages that adapt to every device. Add dynamic behavior, store information, and handle requests and responses.
The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
Modern JavaScript Tutorial: simple, but detailed explanations with examples and tasks, including: closures, document and events, object oriented programming and more.
Introduction
This chapter introduces JavaScript and discusses some of its fundamental concepts.
A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial)
Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript is notorious for being the world’s most misunderstood programming language. It is often derided as being a toy, but beneath its layer of deceptive simplicity, powerful language features await. JavaScript is now used by an incredible number of high-profile ap…
Intro to JavaScript | Udacity
Learn the fundamentals of JavaScript, the most popular programming language in web development.
freeCodeCamp.org
Learn to code. Build projects. Earn certifications.Since 2015, 40,000 graduates have gotten jobs at tech companies including Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Learn Coding, Data Science, & Cybersecurity Analytics
A coding bootcamp with tech’s most effective software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity courses.

Feel free to comment with your own suggestions. 🤓