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Need suggestions for a coding website

A topic by ChismeSoup created 26 days ago Views: 155 Replies: 8
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Hey, I'm very new to coding, but have been interested in it for a long time, and I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a coding website. Because of restrictions, I'm looking for a free, beginner friendly website that I can use on a Chromebook and don't need to download an app or anything for.  

My background in coding is very small, but I know a bit of python and HTML, and have done a JavaScript class before, but I've never made a game before and I want to. 

P.S. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong place, I just got here. 

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If you want to code simple website for free, recommend checking Neocities, they offer free hosting for static websites and as long as you don't need to store a database, you can get to have something pretty cool with even simple basics. Assuming that's what you are looking for.

Pretty sure they want to code games on a website, I might be wrong though

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Scratch is a good place to start for beginners

yeah, i've done that, I want to do something a little more advanced as well

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MicroStudio looks like a good step up from the online Scratch, especially if you already know any Python.

https://microstudio.dev/

thanks! I'll try it out!

Hello!

I'm software engineer, I'm not saying this to assert myself, but rather to give you my own perspective. I think you should focus not so much on learning a specific language, but rather on learning certain best practices. In my opinion, there are no shortcuts. Doing small things with the help of ChatGPT or some other LLM can help you. But to truly understand what you're doing, I think having certain concepts... try learning object-oriented programming concepts, which I think can be useful.

However, there a ton of YouTube channels where you can get a lot of knowledge.. Run away from those who tell you that you learn in 30 minutes.

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Since there are already some solid recommendations, I'll go a bit of a different direction. I've had students in the past use gameified websites like Codedex to great success (launching point, which you then follow up on yourself later). https://roadmap.sh/ is a fantastic tool to figure out where exactly to go if you're lost, as well