Learn to Code With These Online Courses

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Understanding the ins and outs of how the world wide web is built is an incredibly valuable skill. You can leverage your programming knowledge to improve your value at your job, learn a skill to seek out new career opportunities, or to just hack together CSS and HTML to build something for yourself.

As someone who’s been dipping my toes in web development since HTML 2.0 (old!), I’ve found taking a course is more helpful than learning bits and pieces of knowledge one at a time. I’ve compiled 21 of the best online web development courses around, so take a look

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John Cena’s “Path to WrestleMania” Story Makes Him Look Like an Entitled Punk

Okay, so y’all already know I want to see John Cena vs. The Undertaker at WrestleMania 34. And despite Cena saying it was “impossible” now, I still think it’ll happen.

This ain’t about all that though. This is about what John Cena’s doing right now, in the interim, before the Undertaker match apparates out of thin air in front of us. The current story arc he’s on. The angle that has him actively trying to find a “Path to WrestleMania.”

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Poison Ivy Brings Tragedy and Comedy to Gotham City

Every new story arc in Tom King’s Batman run feels wholly different from the ones that came before. “Everyone Loves Ivy” is no different. King and artist Mikel Janin truly dial up the surreal factor in this issue for a story that explores what happens when Batman and Catwoman are the only free people left in a world ruled by Ivy.

As usual, King enjoys throwing the reader off balance as he opens this new issue, with the plot skipping ahead several weeks after Ivy’s dramatic worldwide takeover. The two do have a plan that slowly reveals itself over the course of the issue. But at first, King and Janin simply bask in the absurdity of this Twilight Zone-worthy situation. The ever-popular Bat Burger restaurant makes a welcome return, allowing the creators to inject a dose of humor into an otherwise grim and hopeless situation.

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Horizon Players Killed Over 5 Billion Dino-Machines in 1st Year

To celebrate Horizon Zero Dawn’s one-year anniversary, Guerrilla Games has released a ton of fun statistics about how players have experienced Aloy’s story.

According to an infographic on PlayStation Blog, over 5 billion dino-machines were killed in the first year, 194 billion shards were collected, and the bow is the most used weapon in the game. Also, it appears the Sawtooth is the deadliest enemy in Horizon, having recorded over 20.9 million player kills.

horizon Horizon Zero Dawn infographic, via PS Blog

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Rainbow Six Siege Tops Highest Player Count

With Rainbow Six Siege’s third season of add-on content now out, the game’s player count has reached an all-time high on Steam.

As detailed on SteamCharts, Ubisoft’s first-person shooter recorded a peak 176,208 players, up from last year’s player count of 47,000. This number is especially impressive considering Rainbow Six Siege launched back in 2015.

Additionally, the game’s Year 3 DLC pass is currently the third best-selling product on Steam.

Season 3 adds two new playable characters, Frenchman Lion and Russian Finka, who can be used in competitive and co-op modes. Also included are new skins and equipment, as well as the Outbreak co-op mode and the new Team Rainbow mission Operation Chimera.

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Veronica Review: Great Horror Film From Co-Creator of [REC]

Paco Plaza’s Verónica was released on Netflix last week with little fanfare, some good critical buzz, and no major expectations from anyone other than fans of Plaza’s

films. Only a few days after its Netflix release, however, articles began appearing calling it perhaps one of the scariest movies ever made. Audiences took to Twitter to record their dread in real time, often talking about how they had to turn the movie off because it was so scary. No film can accumulate that sort of immediate pop imprimatur without escaping the notice of any tenacious horror fan, eager to discover if Verónica lives up to its hype.

I too have now watched Verónica, and I can declare handily: It’s not the scariest movie ever made. It is, however, a skillfully made haunted house movie that seeks to be about more than your average haunted house movie. And while director Plaza may have more interest in his excellently creepy visuals – if you’ve heard about the demon in the hallway, then you know what to prepare for – he does not mishandle the film’s more pertinent themes of sexual hysteria, burdened adolescence, and the death of childhood.

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6 Things to Expect From the Next Star Wars Animated Series

It’s a bittersweet week for fans of the animated series Star Wars Rebels. The action-packed show just aired its series finale, bringing an end to the story of Ezra Bridger and his fellow rebel freedom fighters. The good news is that we know Dave Filoni and others at Lucasfilm Animation are hard at work crafting their next big Star Wars epic.

We don’t know much about that new project other than the fact that it exists. But based on the way Rebels wrapped up this week, we have a few ideas on where the animated Star Wars saga is heading next. Scroll down to see our predictions for the next animated series, including when it’ll take place and what characters it’ll feature.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Star Wars Rebels!

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Princess Leia Manga to Debut in Japan on Star Wars Day

Princess Leia will soon be headlining her own manga webcomic later this year.

Per Newsarama, Haruichi is adapting Claudia Gray’s Leia, Princess of Alderaan novel into a manga serial, which will make its debut in Japan on Star Wars day, May 4. It’ll be released on the LINE app, with a print edition planned for release later this year after the final installment.

For now, the manga is only expected to come out in Japan, with no word yet on a possible English translation. Check out some of the art for the manga below.

leia Princess Leia manga, image via Newsarama.

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