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What is web development?

Every website you have ever used is just text your child can write — words, styling, and instructions a browser reads. Change the code below and the page changes. Nothing else happens in between.

Real code, live page

The code — type in it

The website

That is the entire job. A real website is the same three things — structure, style, and behaviour — just more of them, organised well. There is no hidden layer your child never sees.

What they'll actually make

Real pages, not exercises

A personal site, a small business page, a project of their own choosing — written in a real code editor, in the same files a professional developer works in.

Structure, style, behaviour

HTML for what's on the page, CSS for how it looks (including working properly on a phone), and JavaScript for what it does — menus, forms, filters, buttons that respond.

Published on the internet

Projects go live through GitHub with a real URL. Their site opens on anyone's phone — you can send the link to a grandparent and they can visit it.

Open Reactor Zero — a nuclear control room simulator built and published by a TechTutor student →

Story mode, a full 2D control panel, and a 3D control room you can walk around. Written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and live on the internet.

Why choose this program

The layer underneath everything else

Apps, dashboards, online shops, and most AI tools are delivered through a browser. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are what they're made of — this is the foundation the rest sits on.

Typed code from the first lesson

Real syntax, real files, real error messages. Learning to read what the browser is complaining about is part of the training, not an obstacle to it.

Feedback in seconds

Change a line, refresh, see it. That loop is short enough to keep a beginner engaged — which is why the web is where most self-taught developers start.

A link, not a folder

Each project ends as a working URL. That's something your child can put on a school application, enter into a competition, or build a first freelance job on.

The tools: VS Code for writing, Chrome for testing, and GitHub for publishing — all free.

Ages 10–16 24 lessons, 3 levels 90-minute live sessions Needs a laptop and Chrome