Hello, young web developer here. I originally began using just normal CSS, HTML, and some Javascript to build basic responsive sites. If you have some time its easier to learn native than it is to hack a robust package like Bootstrap or get into the in n outs of Angular. Depending on what you know and how fast does determine where to go next.

Think of a website like this: The HTML is the structure of the car, the CSS styles the car, colors, paint, interior, and Javascript is the engine behind the car.

In that sense Javascript can also create the HTML structure, Javascript can style the HTML with CSS. Javascript can control, manipulate and change a site. For me Javascript is very powerful, since its object oriented it can pass, manipulate, and render data easily.

So, to start I would look into understanding CSS3. Theres SCSS/LESS which creates a more robust tool set that can create variables, modules, plugins, for loops, and conditional statements with CSS. Making CSS faster to write, easier to organize, and cleaner code.

I use Javascript to do a lot with a website. From getting data from the backend with Node, Websockets, and MonogoDB. To rendering a full responsive site, and loading in the necessary data from the back. Theres alot to dive into, dont try to do it all yourself, but I do find fiends of mine struggling with entering web dev when they try to alter frameworks from the start like Bootstrap. Theres just a lot going on in there, and if you don't know what to look for it can become overwhelming.

I'd suggest to get up and running, download MAMP (creates a local apache server on your computer), get Sublime Text or I use Webstorm by Jetbrains, and get a source control like SourceTree hooked up to BitBucket or what not. If you have any questions just PM Im down to help!

Also for creating a responsive site theres a couple ways to do it. Theres break points using media screens in CSS, Javascript can get the screen width or div tag width, and you can alter the code that way. Also percentages for div tags' not the best but also another route.

Check these out for ideas, inspiration, and tutorials: http://tympanus.net/codrops/ http://codepen.io/

Are there any particular applications or areas your trying to get involved in? Maybe picking a language that revolves around that is the best option than just Python or Java. Don't know your context so just asking questions. Ive found Javascript to be one of the most universal languages so far. It has a vary easy entry level, yet provides some very complex systems. WebGL, back end with Node Js, MVC, frameworks, pipeline communication between other languages, Socket IO, etc. Ive recently began to dabble in Arduino and Rasberry Pi 2, with the help of javascript and node.js I can create a gateway to communicate with different hardware. Access the hardware over the web from any point, its quite nice the flexibility and openness Javascript brings. That being said there are tons of other languages that have multiple uses and extensions just like Javascript. Best of luck to you mate!

At work we have this analogy, swimming in the shallow end or deep sea drilling. Start slow and build piece by piece or go all in. I've come to find the shallow end is always more beneficial. Its like this: You want to do 20 pull ups, but you've never done a single pull up. Its discouraging after the first or second try to keep attempting all 20. Yet, setting a smaller goal of hitting 1 pull up, than 2 pull ups the next day, and so forth. It helps break the goal down, you feel more accomplished, and much less overwhelmed. To each there own, thought. Just make sure you come up for air, you don't want to get lost down there.

Javascript Developer. Python was the first language I was taught while studying Computer Science. It was quick to grasp, pretty forgiving when making mistakes, and can provide a lot of options. I work with Java sometimes when trying to communicate between platforms like Android. I find it hard to work with at times (bugs, limitations with in the language itself, a bit slow, etc), there are more robust options in everyday applications with Java though. Python has a lot of potential as well, I have friends using it to code particle systems, fluid dynamics, and plugin functionality for their company that does CGI for block buster movies. I did find it hard at first to switch from python to C/C++, yet I highly recommend Python to start and see where it takes you.

Well done, you must have some free time and generally be a good person to invest time into that. Also love the variables and comments (displaySpinnyThing, etc...), haha very nice and descriptive.

If your trying to fake code input and record it, I suggest just writing the code out in a text editor(sublime or what not). Than use After Effects to animate it the way you want. Theres tons of ways to animate type in after effects, and having the code you want to show laid out in a text file lets you figure out how to structure your animation. All those small things, like the backslash circling around in the brackets can be animated easily in After Effects.

Otherwise maybe just record you or someone you know that develops to code. Take some macro and micro shots of them coding, printing out their information in the console/gui.

Hope this helps, Ive been a lurker for 6 years on multiple forums, for once i thought i might contribute to the greater good?