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Khan Academy: Learn how to make webpages with HTML & CSS on Khan Academy
I often get asked how I got into programming. Well, it all started with me forgetting to buy a gift for my mum. I was in 6th grade, and it was Mother’s Day. We lived a few hours walk from the shops in town, and I had to walk by a high-security penitentiary to get to those shops - given the recent surge in prison escapes, I didn’t feel like taking the risk. I’d been browsing the web a lot recently, checking out the fan websites for my favorite boy bands and hanging out in pet-themed chat rooms. I always liked the idea of making gifts instead of buying gifts, so I thought “hey, I’ll make my mum a webpage!” I searched on Yahoo! for instructions (this was even before the days of Google’ing), and made a webpage for my mum with a big cheesy “Happy Mother’s Day” GIF at the top (thanks, Microsoft Word Art!). My mum was happy that I’d taken the effort to learn something new; I was happy that I’d discovered how to get aw…