Learn HTML & CSS for Designers

Meagan Fisher shares her own experience of why and how she learned to code:

My absolute favorite thing about writing code — and the reason I stuck with it through the initial learning curve— is that there is pretty much always a right answer when it comes to code. Your code either works or it doesn’t. This is not the case with almost anything else in life. When you write an essay, paint a picture, or design a website, you never really know if you did it “right.”

With code, there is a solution. You want to replicate the little boxes you drew in Sketch in your browser? There is a concrete set of words you can type in your text editor to do that.

This is a great advice for beginners.