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I appreciate your advice, but at the same time I don't just want to learn to code for the sake of learning to code. I have specific goals and ideas but I'm not in a place where I can achieve them.

I should've been more specific in my post that I'm trying to learn what "technologies" (not my favourite word) are going to be most relevant/useful to spend time learning.

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I'd worry less about specific technologies and more about learning the basics of building of a web app. It doesn't really matter what you use. Successful sites have been built using pretty much all languages. When I taught myself programming about 16 years ago, I bought a book on Cold Fusion that had step-by-step chapters on building a CRUD app, I used MS Access as the database, and did basic JavaScript for validation. If I was doing the same today, I'd use PHP, PostgreSQL and JQuery. The concept is the same. Learn how to create, read, update and delete records from a relational database via a web front end. Learn how to loop over records and display them. You've got to walk before you can run.

That's actually what I'm looking for. I want to learn:

- "the basics of building of a web app" - "how to create, read, update and delete records from a relational database via a web front end" - etc.

The problem is that you can find so many tutorials or books, etc. on specific things like Rails, JavaScript, or MongoDB but I don't know of anything for the actual underlying thought to using those.

I don't know enough information to be able to choose what I should look at using.

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