Ask HN: What Should My Little Bro Learn After HTML & CSS?

[LeoSolaris]

Javascript. jQuery is a good onboarding spot, or jQueryUI. After that, teach him how to modify jQuery itself, thus learning Javascript.

[anujkk]

Here is what I will suggest :

1. CSS Preprocessing Language : Any one of LESS or SASS.

2. Twitter Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation.

3. Concepts of UI/UX Design.

4. Let him do some projects and hone his skills. How about making his own website/portfolio or making some HTML templates/themes and try selling it on marketplaces like themeforest?

5. Once he becomes good at UI/UX Design & Development he can then focus on back-end. I would suggest him to go with Python & Flask. Learning Python language will not only help him in web application development but it will also allow him to explore & play other interesting stuff like Machine Learning, Computer Vision, etc.

[workaholic]

I went to jQuery after HTML/CSS. It's been extremely useful, and it was pretty simple to pick up.

[misterparker]

I went HTML then PHP (hadn't discovered CSS yet in 2004), then MySQL, then back to HTML/CSS. Then Javascript, jQuery, Ruby/Rails, since then.

But I would say rails. Ruby/Rails is way easier than Javascript for new devs I feel like.

[kennethtilton]

Lisp, so he knows how much fun programming can be before sinking back into the cesspool of more conventional languages.

[ckyildiz]

Thank you for all your responses, I'll pass that information onto him :)

[a_emme]

How to talk to girls.

[meerita]

Learn rails. It could be fun.

[rholdy]

Javascript. Then Rails.

[davidsmith8900]

- Depends on what direction he plans on heading. Does he want to stick as a web developer or move onto Mobile & Desktop App development? I'll agree with others and say JavaScript/PHP. It wouldn't hurt him to learn about Java/C++ as well. People talk about Go all the time, but I've never jumped into it.