A Great Place to Start In my experience, W3Schools gets a lukewarm reception by the web development community. In fact, a lot of developers outright dislike it for a variety of different reasons ranging from a distaste of their certification offerin...

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Matt Lawrence
Honestly, I've had more help using W3Schools. The "Try it yourself" examples are exactly what I need whenever I'm trying to learn or implement something quickly.
MDN is great too, but I use it only when I need a more in-depth guide or reference.
I like the differentiation that you made for w3schools is a great place for the basics/as a starting point due to it having less in-depth info and only exactly what you need to get started/try it out.
Kashif Rafi
A Web, Desktop and Mobile App Developer
totally agree with you, i myself learnt a lot from w3school and i like it for the same reason as you, less content more examples