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John Bloomstine

Thanks for your offer of assistance. You certainly are keeping busy responding to people. You can reply to me in a few days or a week if you need a break.

I am 61 years old and have not worked for the past 2 years because of health conditions. My goal is to obtain employment as a front end developer at the begining of 2020. I have plenty of time to study on weekdays. $ are tight so I am using free resources: YouTube, library books, free online courses and doing Google searches. I am using a small tablet to practice coding.

I have been studying html and css concurrently because they are integrated. After two months of study, I am feeling overwhelmed with all there is to learn. It seems like one should know the essentials and be familiar with what other kind of things can be done and then look them up as needed. The question I have is what resources are available that list the essentials of html and css? Even with the essentials, I think trying to memorize everything is not realistic.

I know how to create databases, but learning to code and programming are more challenging for me.

John

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