How did you learn web languages?

w3c schools is very good as well as codeacademy

I believe that the best way to learn the language of the web is search online, references to the topic of interest.
At least I do so!
If you have a good experience of programming languages??, can be extremely boring to read an entire book or attend a full course that addresses aspects of a language starting with the basics (Z.Z)

You should read some tutorials to become used with the syntax and the language’s logic. Then, practice a lot : create mini-websites, try to create some famous systems (news, mini-forum, dynamic menus with JS…).

Finally, begin a bigger project and improve your skills with it.

I learnt from the Internet and checked websites and stole designs and learn it as I go.

i am learning javascript on codeacademy , it is really good website .

I suggest you visit w3schools.com. That’s where I learned the majority of web languages. Another one is tizag.com

codeacademy has many other courses also , like jquery , python , ruby , perl etc

yup , codecademy is a great place to start !! i ’ve learnt a lot there !!
you should give it a try !!

@jayssj11 codeacademy is tooo basic .. I left Code Academy i felt Wikipedia is much better.
Use w3c schools recommended.

i know atleast it will help to learn basic first , then move on to advance level , i myself learn on codeacademy . i am not an expert in languages . i am still a beginner

first thing is to set your mind on what language you want to learn.
second thing read about the basics of programming in general.
third thing is to read about those general things for the programming language you want to learn.
then start with simple applications/scripts and then you can move on.

Do not skip any step, especially 1 and 2.

www.w3schools.com is where I learned web design.

w3schools indeed and just trying, viewing other sites' code and such. Pretty much started here without knowledge of any web-orientated language

Another one you may be familiar with is “stackoverflow”.

The first language i learn properly was Lua, I started learning through a game called ROBLOX that i used to play. I moved on to learning html (even though it technically isn’t a programming language) and when i started my computing course in school i learned visual Basic.net. I got taught this through a book to grasp the main ideas of the language then started mainly learning from the web. I will se if i can find a link to that book if your interested. it helped me allot.

For learning web programming, I fully recommend Mozilla’s Developer Network (https://developer.mozilla.org). It’s full of useful stuff. On the contrary, w3schools is considered as a “troublesome resource” by leading web professionals (see http://www.w3fools.com).

@GymJim: I just typed something very similar in this thread. :p

Sign up at http://www.codecademy.com/ and take these following courses in this order… It’s completely free

First start with your markup langauges:

1. HTML
2. CSS

After that continue on to some programming/server side scripting languages:

3.PHP
4.Javascript
5.Jquery

After that always feel free to continue onto w3schools to fresh up a bit on some new updated technologies. I wouldn’t reccomend w3schools to learn though. Just a resource because it doesn’t actually have a course on teching you syntax and basics etc. Just random tips and a database about each line of code. In a sense I guess I’m saying you kind of have to search for what you want which will take too much time opposed to taking a course that will run you through everything.

After you’re done with those feel free to learn other programming languages the site offers.

To code with these you simply need a text editor. No compiler or anything. You can download other programs but like myself I just use notepad++ or simply notepad when that’s all I have. If it’s linux I use leafpad or my servers text editor.

Have fun… have any questions feel free to ask! Code Academy is the way to go.

Cheers!