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So far I have tinkered with C++ to where I have made a Snake Game, Pong game, and some other tiny stuff and a couple years back I learned a tiny bit of HTML. I just wanted to know if anyone knew what would be the best to start with and where I should learn it. I do like the Idea of Making websites but just don't know where to go to get started. I have watched some YouTube videos but they either stopped making tutorials or just aren't very helpful. Also, I use visual studio 2017 Community.
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If you want to do web, learn HTML & CSS which shouldn't take very long and JavaScript(either ES6 or jquery) after that you have many options for back-end and its really up to you.(PHP, node.js, dotnet, django which is python etc...)

For things like HTML and JavaScript and a lot of programming in general use a text editor instead of an IDE, and IDE like visual studio community edition will get the job done but its overkill and if you try a text editor you would agree.
Good text editors: VS code(recommend), sublime text(recommend but $), Atom, notepad++ .

C++ is a good language to start in and the only direction you should go is to keep doing projects and learn as you go, do something in C++ that requires a database connection, do build a webpage with just html and JavaScript for starters then add some back-end. Thats the only thing I can recommend for self taught. Dont get caught up in language very much if you know a language its very easy to pick up other languages.


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As Xldin said if you want to start off on the trip to website development learn the design concept first which is mostly going to be HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You'll then progress from front-end to back-end development. The volume of resources out there are endless. Whilst YouTube is good it's most ideal to learn from credited sources such as W3Schoole and I would recommend having a look at CodeAcademy. I've also made a somewhat overview thread for web development, just haven't found the time to fully update it.

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Very good info from both users above, however be careful with w3schools they tend to use bad practice.

Try courses on udemy as well, "The Web Developer Bootcamp by Colt Steele" is one I highly recommend.

Don't get discouraged with all the info out there, take in one technology at a time, make sure you are very comfortable with vanilla JavaScript before jumping into a framework like jQuery.
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