Hey, so I made an online course to teach absolute beginners...

Hey, so I made an online course to teach absolute beginners the basics of HTML/CSS. I’m so gosh-darned proud of it — and the three years I spent putting it together. I put a lot of myself in there to make it the sort of welcome mat into front-end development that we need to get more folks coding.

https://geoffgraham.me/the-basics-dev/

Now, I’m also super shy about sharing stuff like this. But I’d really love for you to check it out and pass it along to those who need that welcoming path into the front end.

Like 11 June at 13:31 | Open on front-end.social

24 comments

Matthias Ott

@geoff 🤩 Wow, congrats, Geoff!

11 June at 13:32 | Open on mastodon.social

Geoff

@matthiasott Thank you! Means a heckuva lot to me for you to check it out. :)

11 June at 13:35 | Open on front-end.social

Christopher Kirk-Nielsen

@geoff Given all the web dev articles you've helped put out there — not to mention your career in education — there's not a lot of people who'd be as qualified as you for this kind of undertaking. Congratulations! 🤘

11 June at 13:56 | Open on front-end.social

Geoff

@chriskirknielsen Damn, thanks so much for the encouragement! I can tell you that your wisdom for sure made its way into those lessons, as I've learned a ton from you.

11 June at 14:00 | Open on front-end.social

New phone, who dis?

@geoff Shared it on LinkedIn for you 😉

11 June at 14:01 | Open on mastodon.social

MossyQuartz

@geoff Thank you for sharing this!

11 June at 14:07 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

Poloniousmonk

@geoff

Bookmarked. Thank you.

11 June at 14:10 | Open on autistics.life

micha

@geoff super cool. 🤘 But hard to read on mobile (FF) ...

11 June at 14:11 | Open on octodon.social

Michel Bozgounov 🇺🇦

@geoff Looks cool, Geoff! Boosted! 💖
P.S. Welcome to Mastodon. ;)

11 June at 14:22 | Open on mastodon.social

Florian

@geoff First, congratulations on getting this out there! :) A question: to what degree did you take accessibility into account while making this course? A lot of the beginner courses decide to not cover this because insert-your-favorite-excuse-here which as a result means we're often perpetuating antipatterns down from the very basics and I'd love to hear your course is the odd one out where that's concerned :)

11 June at 14:34 | Open on cupoftea.social

Michelle Barker

@geoff Well done Geoff, this looks very awesome! I can’t think of anyone better to teach people this stuff 💖

11 June at 14:55 | Open on front-end.social

Joseph Elfelt

@geoff I am a boomer that wrote COBOL for Boeing back in the day. But after a few years of that I switched careers and did decades in the real estate field. When I got back into coding about 15 years ago I sure wish I would have had a resource like this so I could start at the beginning and learn how to code for the web. I distinctly recall so many times when I would look at a resource for 'beginners' only to see that it assumed prior knowledge. Well done! 👍

11 June at 15:02 | Open on m.ai6yr.org

Pablo Martini

@geoff well done mate!
When I started in 1993/4 when <br> happend woooo! & images were a "what you can put images on!" At first in line with content! But it was reduced to monitor colours & very small download @28k modem is sloooow!

11 June at 15:25 | Open on climatejustice.social

Geoff

@PabloMartini Ha! It's funny, but I felt like learning was _much_ easier then because everything felt like an "a-ha!" moment. It's different these days, but doesn't have to be. :)

11 June at 15:29 | Open on front-end.social

Pablo Martini

@geoff AHH! I have sort of retired or retired-ish! but I found doing contract work for designers like front end & CSS which I found a doddle & way more profitable & interesting! So find your niche!
When I started I had to sell it, spec it, story book it, design it and produce it for the numpties in "business" mmmm!

11 June at 16:11 | Open on climatejustice.social

Pablo Martini

@geoff you just enjoy it it's gotta be fun (or do something else?) that's me!

11 June at 16:14 | Open on climatejustice.social

Eric

@geoff Ayyy! Congrats on the launch 🎉

11 June at 15:44 | Open on social.ericwbailey.website

Geoff

@eric And thank YOU for all you've taught me — I most certainly cite your work in the lessons.

11 June at 15:49 | Open on front-end.social

Eric

@geoff Oh wow, that's really cool. Thank you 😭

11 June at 16:02 | Open on social.ericwbailey.website

Kusalananda

@geoff I will definitely do this. I'm a backend programmer, but because of the projects that my team takes on, it would be really good if I knew enough about these things to not always be as clueless as I currently am.