Recommendations for a beginner practicing what I just learned

HTML-CSS
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Hi, I’m totally new to coding. I just completed the HTML portion of the FCC curriculum.
I think I should practice more of what I’ve just learned, before moving on to the CSS curriculum. I need to use the individual terms/concepts more than once to engrain them, I barely understood them the first time…
Are there any more tasks/practices/assignments to apply what I’ve learned? Is there another site that would have that? Or does the FCC curriculum itself continue to review those concepts?
Lastly, is there a good free program I can practice with on Mac where I can see the immediate result of my coding?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

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Instead of downloading things, I would suggest creating an account on codepen.io, which is where it is suggested you build your projects
One thing you can do is to start on the projects, you have enough knowledge now to build the html structure of the projects, and you can also have the tests there to see if you are doing right (in the project pages there is a pen linked where the only thing present is the test suite - you can fork that and start working on any project) -
you can then return back later, knowing some css, and working on the other requirements and making it pretty

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Thank you! I’ll check out Codepen then!

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Do you know if I’d need the paid version to do that or would the free version of codepen suffice to start?

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You need the paid version to have more than one project, you just use one pen per fcc project and no need to pay anything

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Thank you! I’ll check it out

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I know it’s marked as solved, but Visual Studio Code is a very good free editor, and you don’t have to rely on the internet to view your pages.
After downloading it, go to the Extensions section (a square inside a square on the left side) of the program and search for Live Server by Ritwick Dey.
It creates a local server that updates your browser every time you save changes. It’s so easy to use.

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Thank you! I’ll check it out

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I read your post and actually thought it was myself that had already posted. Exact same thoughts. Can you tell me how the suggestions provided have helped you thus far? Today is day 2 of my coding experience and other than following directions for the HTML (about to start CSS) I am lost and how to continue to practice and reinforce what I just learned. Should I have been copying and pasting the directions somewhere to refer back to later?

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