Getting Started with Code: A List of Tutorials and Resources

Knowing how to code can be a powerful tool for an author (like if you want to build your own website). It’s not easy, but it is rewarding. Here are some resources to help you learn and get started:

Learning

• Dev Boot Camp
• Hurricane Electric
• Code Academy
• Jeffrey Faden (Youtube)
• Code School
• Noisebridge
• W3Schools
• Know the Code

HTML5

• HTML5 Boilerplate
• HTML5 Demos
• HTML5 Rocks
• Using Custom Attributes in HTML5

JavaScript

• React (JavaScript library)
• React documentation
• AngularJS
• BackboneJS
• H9RBS
• JSLint

Git

• Git Basics
• Git Getting Started

Ruby on Rails

• Rails Tutorial
• Ruby on Rails
• What Book Publishers Need to Know About Ruby on Rails

PHP

• CodeIgniter Web Framework
• Learn PHP

Python

• Full Stack Python
• Learn Python
• Flask
• Flash Overview
• MAMP
• Python: Installing Glask with MAMP

Machine Learning

• Machine Learning
• Parallel Machine Learning

Mobile

• PhoneGap
• Start Developing iOS Apps (Swift)

Editors

• Atom
• Sublime
• Textmate

Apple

• The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to AppleScript
• OS X Automator

Additional Resources

• Ten Best IDE Software on Website Setup
• Advice on Backend Development
• What is Code?
• Programmer 101
• RTcmix: An Open-Source, Digital Signal Processing and Sound Synthesis Language
• UX Lab
• Liquid
• Sass Lang

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in February 2017.