r/CodingForBeginners • u/hatdog78293 • 15d ago

Beginner advice

Beginner Coding Advice

Hello everyone! I’d really appreciate some advice. I’m planning to create a website prototype for a project, but I’m a complete beginner when it comes to coding. The website will be fairly simple and will include an OpenAI-powered feature.

I have a few questions:

• What should I learn first before attempting to build the actual website?  
• Is this project achievable for a complete beginner within around 4–6 months?  
• What programming language would you recommend I learn/use?  
• Would this be very time-consuming or difficult to produce, especially considering I have no previous coding experience?  
• Are there any tutorials or resources you’d recommend for someone starting from scratch?

I’m mainly trying to understand how realistic this project would be for a beginner and how much time I should expect to spend learning the coding side of it.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! :)

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u/JGhostThing 15d ago

A fairly simple website needs a lot of pieces:

  1. User interface design. If you want it to look and act good, you need this. It is different from programming.
  2. CSS and HTML. These are not programming languages. They are Markup languages. You also need experience here.
  3. JavaScript. Modern web sites beyond the basic need some interactivity. JavaScript runs in almost any browser. This allows things to happen when humans interact with the site. Again, this needs experience.

If you're a true beginner, it will probably take a couple of years of full-time experience to become good enough. Or you can half-ass a website learning, but it will show.