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I am learning HTML and I have a good book to learn with but my cousin told me that I should pick a fun project to learn how to program but im 开发者_JAVA技巧not sure what I should do.

what is the most fun project to do when you are learning HTML?

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Do a website about something you like or know good. Like, if you are a music fan, do a site about your fave band or some musical instrument. There's no single "fun project".

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Making your own CSS Zen Garden is a fun place to start.

It will teach you the basics of HTML and the all-important CSS.

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“Most fun” is hard to say, but a few things which you might find interesting:

• A homepage for yourself
• A Twitter aggregator
• A simple wiki (if you want to learn server-side programming at the same time)
• A recipe list
• A photo album

... and so on ...

And, as others have suggested, it would be a good idea to try and pick up some JavaScript and CSS at the same time… But, if you truly are new to programming, that will get overwhelming very quickly. So it might be a good idea to stick to one thing — say, learning HTML — before you try to learn CSS or JavaScript.

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The most obvious one is make your own website and/or blog. I enjoyed it when I knew nothing but HTML. Granted, I'd learn some CSS, Javascript, and some Server Side language(such as PHP) as well because HTML on it's own is quite tedious.

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"Be a Good Jedi: Build Your Own Blog"
Quoted from Rob Conery's blog: http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/be-a-good-jedi-build-your-own-blog/

1) It’s the perfect app for a geek who wants a blog to build – they’re the perfect domain experts
2) It’s easy (for the most part) but gets harder and harder the farther in your dive
3) It’s ubiquitous. What a perfect interview topic: “I’d love to see how you handled asynchronous pings to Technorati and – oh – do you have a POP feature? Also – did you use MetaWeblog or Wordpress?”
4) It’s your calling card. If your blog rocks – likely you do too. If it sucks and it’s slow – well…
5) It’s a great way to learn a language. Want to try out ASP.NET MVC? Compare the LOC and features to your Webforms blog – then try Rails…
6) Luke did it – and that’s good enough for me

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If you're only learning HTML (as opposed to JavaScript, PHP, etc):

1. Pick a topic you're passionate about (your favorite game, movie, book, programming language, hobby, etc)
2. Make a useful website about it that will benefit users

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My mum started with a family website and created slideshows. You can gradually move on to your hobbies and share those.

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Some fun projects could be:

1. Make a website about something you like or do.
2. Help out a friend and make a website about something he/she likes or does...
3. Help out an small organisation / shop in you neighbourhood (for example a restaurant, a shop, a cafe, a radio station ...) by making their website. Maybe you could get some free beer or food in return :-)