Show HN: A sequence of online courses to learn web development from scratch

My co-founder taught herself web development using online courses and resources. This “Learning Path” outlines the resources she found most helpful, and lays them out in a sequence that a beginner should be able to follow.<p>We realize this is <i>a</i> curriculum, not <i>the best</i> curriculum. We&#x27;d love your feedback on whether this is useful, and what we might change or add.<p>Also if you’re so inclined, we’d love feedback on our product SlideRule itself (a Yelp-like catalog of online courses), which you can access it by clicking on “COURSES” in the header.<p>EDIT (based on some of the comments):<p>We&#x27;re very encouraged to see the response to this.<p>1. On which other subjects would you like to see such Learning Paths?<p>2. If you&#x27;re interested in helping us build more learning paths (on any subject), we&#x27;d love to hear from you (in comments here or at founders@mysliderule.com)

This is a great list.<p>I do think 80+% of this material (maybe everything but the &quot;learn to code&quot; piece) is covered in Michael Hartl&#x27;s Rails Tutorial: <a href="http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruby.railstutorial.org&#x2F;ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book</a><p>That book singlehandedly took me from &quot;crappy C programmer&quot; to &quot;someone with enough knowledge to be dangerous&quot; as a web dev.

Devops is something not included by majority of web dev classes. Yet it is not ignorable in this profession. Do include something on that.

Cool idea, but as someone who as actually taken the courses in this list, the order is all out of whack. There is no way someone completely new to programming could jump into Udacity&#x27;s CS253 and have any idea what is going on. Even from CS101, there is a significant gap that you have to make up for on your own.

This looks great! It reminds me of this Google Doc I put together a while back, which you are free to copy&#x2F;draw inspiration from. And I&#x27;ve already added this page to it, so that should already be a good lesson on recursion :p <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jlJCxNG7XyCPpUNRybH1b2Pb-GkKOtygG-m18Mk5q30/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1jlJCxNG7XyCPpUNRybH1b2Pb...</a>

I really liked the Udacity course. It&#x27;s by no means exhaustive or representative of the ecosystem (it focuses on Python&#x2F;Google App Engine, I took it quite a while ago but I assume it has not changed), but introduces a lot of basic concepts (client&#x2F;server, templating, routing, caching, security, cookies...) in a very concise and efficient way.

Really great stuff for beginners. Thanks for the list. I&#x27;ll forward it along to a few people who are interested but don&#x27;t know where to start. However, it does look very python-django specific route on the back-end side. My suggestion, branch out the back-end side to include paths using different frameworks and such?

This is a neat idea. I disagree a little bit with the ordering. I think the version control aspect should be placed a little bit earlier but I can see why you would want to be seeing results of what you are doing before making sure you keep track of your changes when just starting.

I would also mix in Jeffrey Way&#x27;s tuts for HTML, CSS, and jQuery. (They say 30 days but you can do them each in less than a week.)<p><a href="https://courses.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-html-css" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.tutsplus.com&#x2F;courses&#x2F;30-days-to-learn-html-c...</a><p><a href="https://courses.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-jquery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.tutsplus.com&#x2F;courses&#x2F;30-days-to-learn-jquery</a>

I&#x27;m really glad someone took the time to do this, and came with quite a wholesome set of resources in the end. For someone who has moderate web dev experience such as myself, I think it&#x27;s also definitely useful for review as well as the aspects of web dev you may be less&#x2F;not at all familiar with.

Great list, but I think my newish book should be on it, since it takes a unique approach that both beginners and veterans, but especially beginners, really like, as evidenced by the rather wild Amazon reviews: <a href="http://amzn.to/1aOyqch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;1aOyqch</a>

It&#x27;s a well put together list and a very useful website. You&#x27;ve done great work pulling together a whole lot of courses and it&#x27;s good to see them finally being tied together into specific paths. Would you consider adding projects or additional materials to the learning paths? I&#x27;ve found that&#x27;s what our students get the most value out of with in the project I&#x27;ve been working on (the odin project -- <a href="http://theodinproject.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theodinproject.com</a>) because it gives the students a tangible result that unites the things they&#x27;ve learned and they can add it to their portfolios. Often the MOOCs still hold your hand a bit too much to be a complete solution. Happy to discuss -- erik@theodinproject.com

Is there a reason its start with CS253 then flies back to CS101 in section 3. My prior understanding was CS101 knowledge is required for CS253 to make more sense. It seems to jump around a lot aside from adding additional resources to help learning during specific sections.

I would throw in the Django docs+tutorial combined with stack overflow. These two resources combined are like having a personal tutor.<p>The django docs in particular are intuitive to follow and pretty comprehensive. Then stack overflow is good for the stuff that&#x27;s not in the docs.

This is a great idea. I&#x27;d love to see something like this for other topics such as Data Science, Digital Marketing, Lean Start-Up, Marketing Strategy etc.<p>I&#x27;d love to help&#x2F;contribute to the marketing related courses if you decide to expand your subject offerings.

I wish more subjects&#x2F;professions were accessible like this.

This is really cool - thanks for laying out out like a progression! There are so many resources on the internet I find myself relearning a lot of things several times.

This is great. I have been looking for a service like this. A pain point when navigating through tutorials and courses online is finding the proper material for your skill level. Hope this service will be able lighten this task, and provide suggestions based upon a users previously enrolled courses.<p>Are you planning on adding a feature like this?

This is a great list! Also, check out this:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/cs50/comments/1nx2au/life_after_cs50/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;cs50&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1nx2au&#x2F;life_after_cs50...</a><p>It&#x27;s another really good list of courses :)

Another great tool, especially if you&#x27;re looking at Rails is:<p><a href="http://www.theodinproject.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theodinproject.com&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s in beta but it&#x27;s pretty great from the looks of it.

FYI: I got a 403 error when I tried to sign up (CSRF verification failed). You should probably override the default template for that error page, too. Nice to see you&#x27;re using Django, though!

Yes I agree, if you&#x27;re wanting to learn web development, then rails is the way to go, there&#x27;s more resources for current problems and fixes in rails than anything else.

Added to my list of tutorials to attempt and hopefully steam through. I love guided lessons like this.

I would like to learn a different framework, but: Is it really recommended to learn git in the end?

Is Chrome Dev Tools really that much better than Firefox dev tools? What about firebug?

nothing about node.js ?

so how do you earn?

There are lots of free udemy courses that teaches web development. Here&#x27;s the link:<p><a href="https://www.udemy.com/courses/Technology/?view=grid&amp;price=free" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udemy.com&#x2F;courses&#x2F;Technology&#x2F;?view=grid&amp;price=fr...</a><p>You need some digging to find the courses that interest you, but it&#x27;s well worth it.