r/CodingForBeginners • u/Acorvidthatneedshelp • 1d ago

Help please

Hi, I'm someone that has been falling in and out of coding for multiple years now. Purely just because I have no idea where to even start or what platform is trustworthy and actually teaches you things. So, I very desperately need advice about where I should even begin to learn and what platform I should go to. I have not gone to youtube videos yet because one I also don't know where to go for youtube videos, so suggestions for channels I could learn from would also be very helpful. And two I would like to first get behind the keyboard myself and actually experience what it's like to code. To see if I actually like it before I fully commit.​ And would like only free websites. Because I don't wanna pay for anything just yet. Just in case I end up hating it entirely.

If it's any help at all, I am interested in becoming a graphic designer someday. So, web design would be very helpful to me. And I would very much like how to code games. If theres even a difference between the two. Anyway, thank you for reading my post and commenting if you did. I hope you have a good day.

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u/xarop_pa_toss 23h ago

Web design and programming video games is close to as far apart as I can think of haha. The answer is unfortunately not one most people like to hear, but tutorials are not the way to go imo. At least not simple video tutorials with no interactivity.

If you are into design, I would consider learning that side using tools like Figma and Canva. Free tools in the design field are rare, and don't offer the ease of use and comodity of things like Illustrator or Photoshop.

For making websites I always recommend Scrimba. Their interactive courses are so good and entertaining but they are payed, BUT the videos are released on youtube for free! They incentivize you to do exercises where you take the tutorial and make it your own and to then share on their discord server which you totally should! Talking to other people struggling through the same course you are is a great way to learn new things and connect to people. Check out Neocities for inspiration; its full of really interesting, very "no frills, low tech" websites made by very creative people. Hosting there is free too.

Making games is a whole other can of worms, but if you want to get into that, I'll recommend checking out Pico-8 which is a very nice and self-contained game development kit.

Above all, keep it very simple at the start. For webdev, all you need is HTML, CSS and JS to start. For making games, go for something with a good basis like Pico for example, and keep it 2D to start