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by meadhikari 5673 days ago
And then about w3schools which I had the impression was good: "w3schools is the single worst 'developer' site on the entire web."

What made you think that?

I learned html and php through w3school and it was a wonderfull experience.

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It's terrible because it teaches everything in isolation. You have a section for this tag, a section for this function, on and on. You never get a feel for how all the pieces fit together to build something non-trivial. It's only useful as a reference. And even for that purpose its terrible because the information density is way too low.
It's good for a basic reference when you don't want to wade through the W3C spec. It's not good for learning.
I hate the ads, but otherwise the content was good enough for me to go back every so often
The only issue with w3schools is it is basic. Otherwise it covers a lot of material fairly well. At least it's not wrong, like many other resources.
That was not my opinion, it was from the linked thread at the top.