Unfortunately, I cannot teach you everything you need to know about coding on a single webpage. So instead, I'm going to teach you how to teach yourself how to code!

One of the first and most important things of learning how to code is learning how to read it. If you can't read code, how are you supposed to know what any of it means?

Similar to how children learn to read before they write, it's important to be able to read code before you write it. When you read code, you familiarize yourself with how different strings of code are used. Try right clicking on this page and pressing inspect to view the code! Look through it and try to figure out what some of the strings of code do.

Any aspiring coder should be able to problem solve. Encountering problems while coding is a constant, so it's important that you have the problem solving skills to fix these problems!

You see the title on the top of this screen? I really messed up the code when I first tried to add it and it ended up in a completely different position. I had to do a lot of problem solving to get it to look how I wanted it to.

When solving a problem, first you should identify exactly what the problem is. If it is a more complex problem, try to break it down into smaller bits to solve. The important thing is that you don't give up, or else you'll never learn how to code.

As with everything, practice is essential to learning how to code. Although it is important to learn to read code before you start writing it, eventually you gotta practice writing it. Practice makes perfect!

A good method of practicing is called deliberate practice. With deliberate practice, you set goals for what you want to improve to guide what you practice. Deliberate practice will help you more than just aimlessly practicing random codes. Eventually you will know everything you want to know about coding!

Image sources: Betty's Graphics and Pixel Safari (and me)