New to this entire scene. Need a path to competency

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Hello! I’m an older student and I have been making websites for a long time with primitive technology, LOL. For example, Printmaster! I can find my way around the Web Builder program for GoDaddy, and some Wordspace for Hostgator. So, I decided to go for THE REAL THING and registered at college for a Web Developer/Web Design certificate.

Honestly, I am so out of my depth. I have already rescheduled my classes once and will likely have to do it again. Today, I downloaded Visual Code Studio in preparation for my class in eight days, and I am discouraged. So I started going backwards to see where my knowledge resonates, and I am in the basement and still haven’t found my tribe.

So, where to start? This service begins with HTML classes. Is THAT a good foundation for where I want to be? Can I build on that foundation to use JAVA?

My goal, is to prepare and maintain websites for friends and charities, for free. I want to make this a ministry.

Thank you for any advice you can give.

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Java could be you language of choice for backend, but you also need to learn JavaScript for frontend. College should be able to give you a more theoretical understanding, but you still need to practice on your own to get better.
The freeCodeCamp curriculum teaches first the foundamentals, with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, then React as a front-end framework and NodeJS as backend language, and then on other useful things to know.

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