Web Development Tutorials For Newbies

1.Coding Pitfalls for Beginners

This handy article focuses on some of the common mistakes made by beginners in the field of programming. Get specific insight into Ruby, JavaScript and PHP issues creeping up from time to time in the general life of a web developer.

2.A Roadmap for Beginning to Code

This blog post is an attempt to help others get started in web development. It’s meant to be a lay of the land, “here’s what you need to do” type roadmap for your first couple of months, the kind of map that author Jimmy LI wished he had been given when he first started coding.

3.30 Days to Learn jQuery

If you’re looking to use jquery in web development, check out this tutorial featuring 30 days worth of 10 to 15 minute lessons from Tuts+. 

4.Non-Programmer's Tutorial to Python 3

All example Python source code in this tutorial is granted to the public domain. Therefore you may modify it and relicense it under any license you please. The Non-Programmers' Tutorial For Python 3 is a tutorial designed to be an introduction to the Python programming language. This guide is for someone with no programming experience.

5.GitHub for Beginners

GitHub is more than just a programmer's tool. If you want to collaborate on anything, you should give it a try. Having started as a developer's collaborative platform, GitHub is now the largest online storage space of collaborative works that exists in the world. This tutorial is a great way to learn everything that there is to know about GitHub. 

6.PHP 101 for the Absolute Beginner

This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you who already have worked with PHP 4 in the past.

7.Mozilla Developer Network

The links on this page lead to a variety of tutorials and training materials. Whether you are just starting out, learning the basics, or are an old hand at web development, you can find helpful resources here for best practices. 

8.Ruby on Rails Tutorial

This is the only Rails book that does test-driven development the entire time, an approach highly recommended by the experts but which has never been so clearly demonstrated before. By including Git, GitHub, and Heroku in the demo examples, the author really gives you a feel for what it’s like to do a real-world project. 

9.HTML Dog’s Beginning HTML Guide

A step-by-step guide to HTML basics. If you’re completely new to web design, start here.

10.Codecademy

Codecademy’s beginning web development course takes you through all the quintessential basics of HTML and CSS, giving you projects along the entire path to practice all that you have learned.