Start Here: Web Development

http://advancedbeginnerchallenge.com – I built a course to get your first job in web development, or upgrade from Junior to mid-level! Connect with me on instagram or twitter @dainmiller Join Keith and Dain as they discuss the tools and software that you’ll need to start a career in web dev. We encourage you to explore which tools work best for you. However, dedicate enough time to each tool so you can fully experience it (~3 to 4 weeks). Text Editors Sublime SidebarEnhancements GitGutter Emmet Atom Notepad++ Vim/Emacs Textmate IDEs Jetbrains IDE’s rubymine (ruby) pycharm (python) webstorm (javascript) php storm (php) Coda (front-end IDE) Robust IDE’s Visual Studio (contains functionality for all languages) IntelliJ Dreamweaver (wysiwig) Browser Development c9.io Koding Browsers Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Front-End Frameworks (HTML/CSS) Bootstrap Foundation UIKit Front-End Frameworks (JavaScript) AngularJS Backbone EmberJS Back-End Frameworks WordPress (platform) PageKit (platform, very new) Ruby on Rails Laravel CodeIgniter Localhost Environments PHP MAMP (for mac) WAMP (for Windows) XAMPP Ruby on Rails (RoR) Web Hosting A Small Orange Bluehost Heroku (RoR) Hostgator Registrars (Domain registering) NameCheap Hover Domain Name Search/Brainstorming Tool Domai.nr

http://advancedbeginnerchallenge.com – I built a course to get your first job in web development, or upgrade from Junior to mid-level! In episode 3 Dain & Keith talk about areas of CSS that you should take time to understand. Resources http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/getting-to-know-css/ with Shay Howe After doing this lesson you'll understand more about the CSS cascade, specificity, selectors, common values and lengths. http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ by Eric Meyer CSS Frameworks http://getbootstrap.com/ http://foundation.zurb.com/ http://getuikit.com/ Talk to Us What do you think are the most difficult CSS concepts to understand? miller.dain@gmail.com Connect with me on instagram @dainmiller or @starthere.fm

http://advancedbeginnerchallenge.com – I built a course to get your first job in web development, or upgrade from Junior to mid-level! Tasks - Lesson 2, http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/getting-to-know-html/ This lesson from Shay Howe dives into more HTML goodness. Continue building the Styles Conference website and learn about page structure and properly using various HTML elements. - Talk To Us Tell us why you want to be a web developer. Connect with me on instagram @dainmiller or @starthere.fm

http://advancedbeginnerchallenge.com – I built a course to get your first job in web development, or upgrade from Junior to mid-level! Tasks - Read Steps 1 & 2 from DevelopAJob.com This site is a good overview of web development. The author provides additional resources some of which you can purchase. We don't believe you need to pay for an education in web development so bypass those resources. In step 2 we'd ask you to skip the Build Your First Website section. Our second resource provides a more thorough lesson. - Work through Lesson 1, Building Your First Web Page, from learn.shayhowe.com Shay's lesson is a crash course and a fantastic introduction to HTML and CSS. Technically, it's a lesson about building for the front-end but we think every web developer should know these things. - Talk to Us Please tell us why you want to be a web developer. What are your reasons and what job are you switching from? Leave us a comment below. If you have questions about web dev please ask away. You can also Contact us directly. Connect with me on instagram @dainmiller or @starthere.fm