Learn By Doing

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A repo for brand new devs who are looking for great fundamental practice projects. Excellent project tutorials and awesome repos welcome - submit your PR (pull request)! Not sure how to do a PR? Here are some good instructions, or you can dm the link to ssbcodes on Twitter.

If you've never contributed to an open source project before, this is a great one to start with!

A good Absolute Beginner Project:

• is free
• requires NO previous coding knowledge in the language it teaches
• explains everything in detail. It assumes nothing
• is well-written and easy to follow
• has up to date code samples that are easy to copy and paste
• is a complete project from zero to finish...no "Part three coming soon!"
• takes no more than a few of hours to complete
• is NOT a "Hello World!" tutorial. Real-world projects only.

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JavaScript

JavaScript for Absolute Beginners - Udemy ✦
Program a simple birth year finder app

HTML & CSS

Code Club Projects
Two different modules with six progressive project-based lessons in each

Codecademy
Create a custom website with content you choose

Multi-language

Coder for Raspberry Pi
Requires a Raspberry Pi and a 4GB SD card
Coder is a free, open source project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a simple platform that educators and parents can use to teach the basics of building for the web. New coders can craft small projects in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, right from the web browser.

Tools

Git
tryGit
An interactive tutorial for learning how to use Git on the command line in 15 minutes

Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux
Mac | PC | Linux