I am learning HTML and I have a good book to learn with but my cousin told me that I should pick a fun project to learn how to program but im not sure what I should do.
what is the most fun project to do when you are learning HTML?
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The most obvious one is make your own website and/or blog. I enjoyed it when I knew nothing but HTML. Granted, I'd learn some CSS, Javascript, and some Server Side language(such as PHP) as well because HTML on it's own is quite tedious.
Earlz
2010-05-10 19:13:21
Here are some thoughts by Rob Conery on the topic: http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/be-a-good-jedi-build-your-own-blog/
Mathias
2010-05-10 20:06:44
@Math You should just make that an answer :)
Earlz
2010-05-10 20:33:27
I figured this was close enough to your answer that I would just comment, but if I have your official blessing I'll do that ;)
Mathias
2010-05-10 21:52:03
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Making your own CSS Zen Garden is a fun place to start.
It will teach you the basics of HTML and the all-important CSS.
Diodeus
2010-05-10 19:13:39
CSS = Cascading Style Sheets. Clicking "select a design" will change the way the page looks by swapping the stylesheet, but uses the exact same HTML. This will teach you how stylesheets work.
Diodeus
2010-05-10 19:33:16
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“Most fun” is hard to say, but a few things which you might find interesting:
- A homepage for yourself
- A Twitter aggregator
- A simple wiki (if you want to learn server-side programming at the same time)
- A recipe list
- A photo album
... and so on ...
And, as others have suggested, it would be a good idea to try and pick up some JavaScript and CSS at the same time… But, if you truly are new to programming, that will get overwhelming very quickly. So it might be a good idea to stick to one thing — say, learning HTML — before you try to learn CSS or JavaScript.
David Wolever
2010-05-10 19:14:08
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If you're only learning HTML (as opposed to JavaScript, PHP, etc):
- Pick a topic you're passionate about (your favorite game, movie, book, programming language, hobby, etc)
- Make a useful website about it that will benefit users
Dolph
2010-05-10 19:14:32
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Do a website about something you like or know good. Like, if you are a music fan, do a site about your fave band or some musical instrument. There's no single "fun project".
mingos
2010-05-10 19:15:10
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If you want to dive a little deeper than pure html, I would take a look at JQuery. You can do some cool stuff with it, and AJAX is all the rage right now.
dbyrne
2010-05-10 19:15:29
Hi HTML is my first programming and my cousin said ajax is very hard to do and that it is a very bad idea to learn it first
Atticum
2010-05-10 19:18:42
@Att it use to be hard to do. But with all these serverside(Rails, MVC, etc) frameworks and jQuery at hand, you really should be learning HTML, and jQuery side by side. jQuery makes it super easy. Like 1 line of code easy.
Earlz
2010-05-10 20:35:07
@Earlz, I wasn't aware ease could be measured in lines of code. It sounds like this guy is *just* starting out, like at the "this is an HTML tag" level, so any sort of Javascript is probably 1) overkill and 2) too advanced. Basic HTML and CSS is probably plenty for him right now.
tloflin
2010-05-10 22:09:46
@tlo yea, this is true. So I'd say it could be his next step before server side stuff to try out though
Earlz
2010-05-10 23:03:59
@Earlz, I agree with that. And honestly it should only take him a few weeks before he's ready to tackle JQuery.
tloflin
2010-05-11 15:13:51
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"Be a Good Jedi: Build Your Own Blog"
Quoted from Rob Conery's blog: http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/be-a-good-jedi-build-your-own-blog/
1) It’s the perfect app for a geek who wants a blog to build – they’re the perfect domain experts
2) It’s easy (for the most part) but gets harder and harder the farther in your dive
3) It’s ubiquitous. What a perfect interview topic: “I’d love to see how you handled asynchronous pings to Technorati and – oh – do you have a POP feature? Also – did you use MetaWeblog or Wordpress?”
4) It’s your calling card. If your blog rocks – likely you do too. If it sucks and it’s slow – well…
5) It’s a great way to learn a language. Want to try out ASP.NET MVC? Compare the LOC and features to your Webforms blog – then try Rails…
6) Luke did it – and that’s good enough for me
Mathias
2010-05-10 21:56:33
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My mum started with a family website and created slideshows. You can gradually move on to your hobbies and share those.
gems
2010-05-11 14:00:52
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Some fun projects could be:
- Make a website about something you like or do.
- Help out a friend and make a website about something he/she likes or does...
- Help out an small organisation / shop in you neighbourhood (for example a restaurant, a shop, a cafe, a radio station ...) by making their website. Maybe you could get some free beer or food in return :-)
murze
2010-05-11 21:34:05