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Course Review
Here is our in-depth review of Responsive Web Design, based on hours of rigorous testing and evaluation.
Updated: July 16, 2023
If you’re brand new to programming, this is a great starting point for learning the basics, especially since it's free. After getting up to speed with the basics, you should consider moving to another more robust solution grounded in real world application.
Fast Facts
FreeCodeCamp
By Various Authors
This learning path starts with the basics and covers the essentials of designing and coding websites through a series of guided projects. After completing this path, you’ll understand various aspects of web page styling, including modern techniques like variables and pseudo-classes. You'll get lots of practice making web designs responsive and accessible.
Many of the challenges are actually quite simple to game or guess at, because the reading gives away too many clues. We would prefer to see more difficult challenges built into the curriculum in order to help students build skills along the way. You may want to take on some additional challenges at Frontend Mentor, CodePen, or 100 Days of CSS to practice the concepts as you’re learning them.
Some of the projects aren't quite real world. So if you're looking to launch a career as a frontend web developer, make sure you continue with some independent projects that follow a real-world scenario.
Scrimba
By Per Harald Borgen
This is one of the most impressive beginner-friendly HTML and CSS courses available. Well made, effective, engaging, and a lot of fun.
Frontend Masters
By Various
Solid on-ramp to CSS, going from the basics to professional-level CSS, with a particular emphasis on real-world frontend development.
Codecademy
By Various Authors
Solid hands-on option for learning how to design, build, and deploy simple websites.
Our course reviews are conducted by a team of technical professionals, course developers, and lifelong learners.
The lead of this project, Brian Green, has worked in developer education since 2009. He built the content development teams at Pluralsight and Udacity, implementing quality standards and tutorials to improve course quality and working with hundreds of authors to create courseware. Most recently, he built the product team at App Academy. As of writing, he estimates he has spent nearly a year of his life taking or reviewing online courses, on topics ranging from Web Development, Networking, Server Administration, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
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