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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

W3schools is a piece of shit that shouldn't be used anyway. They publish inaccurate information and always have. Plus, we have mdn, a similar concept for a website just executed 1000% better.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've just started learning to code. ._. I have no Idea yet what is good and what not. I just looked up an example for Boolean and W3 Schools was the first that came up.

Why is it so bad? Everything Ive read so far from there was pretty accurate. But it was mostly beginner Stuff tho.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Like I said, they have incorrect information. I can't recommend MDN enough, especially because they have browser compatibility info

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Beginner stuff is good enough as far as I remember, just try not to rely on it too much in the long term (since MDN is also a good alternative)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's bad--it's impossible to make error-free material, and it's more error-free than not, for sure.

But other people are right: you'll "graduate" to MDN and not look at W3 Schools again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you just commented just because you saw W3School and didn't even read the image ?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was hours ago and I lost context. However had I actually done that, justified.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are just spreading toxicity on a funny post.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I'm spreading reality. What a drama queen

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

W3schools does tend to be more beginner friendly that MDN

[–] RandomVideos 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They still have some few good content. I didn't found an equivalent of the (inexhaustive) selector list of W3School on mdn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ive had to make websites on networks that block mdn but not w3schools for some reason