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Thoughts on W3Schools Online?
#1
Someone recommended this site due to it's enormous categories where you can learn from. HTML, PYTHON, C++, C# and so on. Do you have any free alternatives like this one?



#2
W3Schools has always been a great quick reference for me. My school even referenced them during my courses. Codeacademy has cheatsheets which is similar. I also use Stackoverflow but they are usually specific coding questions.



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#3
it isnt too bad but i keep on having to switch to different sites for specific problems



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#4
I used it to learn the basics but nothing more than that



#5
Well, put simply: If you can already program (meaning: You know what an if/for/function is, and have an idea what HTML is, and why it isn't a programming language), you'll use it as a documentation/manual to check it - even though for this kind of stuff I recommend MDN (Mozilla Developer Network, or somethin' like that), because I personally found it more useful.
If you have no idea of programming, or web-dev, it will give you an overview.

If you want to get into web-dev, it would be more suitable to look for video-tutorials about html5, css and javascript, to see what it is like. learn the basics



#6
W3School works better as quick reference/manual... If you want full courses to learn something new, a very useful site is freecodecamp. Check also their youtube channel, full of very good videos



#7
saved my ass dozens of times



#8
It definitely is not as bad as people like to say it is. I think its got some great information for basic use cases and a good learning tool. I think where it falls short is best practices and often leads people down the wrong way of doing things in the long run, but it is a great resource if you are trying to look up basic info on how a topic works.



#9
I used ist frequently while learning PHP but also used some different websites in addition



#10
To my knowledge W3Schools has not had the best reputation for reliability and can have some pretty outdated content at times. I personally prefer to stick to other sources such as reading stackoverflow and similar threads, developers.mozilla and manpages of the thing I am using.



#11
its nice, also check out freecodecamp, its good



#12
Good reseource for JS atleast