w3schools: general tutorials!! a great starting point and how i learned a lot of what i know!!
GeeksForGeeks: more tutorials! if you can't find it on w3schools, you might be able to find it here! xD
stack overflow: a neat community for asking and answering your coding questions!
spacehey layouts: the spacehey layouts i made are labelled with what each bit of code does. i find that studying HTML and CSS directly helped me to really grasp what i learned! the code on my website isn't always proper or pretty but it does work!! so feel free to study it!! >w<
neocities: a great site for hosting your very own first website! free to start and great for learning! they also provide a wonderful tutorial which you can find here!
nekoweb: another amazing option for hosting your site! a smaller team and a more robust HTML text editor!!
brackets: an open-source text editor suited for HTML!
brackets: an open-source text editor suited for HTML!
Godot: open-source gaming engine! code your dream game ^3^
LMMS: an open-source music software!
Audacity: an open-source audio editing software!
GIMP: an open-source image editing program, comparable to photoshop.
Krita: an open-source art program. this is how I got my start outside of MS paint xD
OBS: open brodcaster software can record videos of your computer screen to post to the web!! it's open-source and very robust.
windows movie maker: my editing program of choice, featured on windows vista and 7! this link is to the wayback machine's archive of windows live essentials, so it will probably only work on windows, srry Dx!! make sure to uncheck everything except windows movie maker if you just want movie maker. this is the version from 2012 so it may have a few bugs. i haven't run into anything too bad though ^3^
OpenShot video editor: a newer, open-source alternative to windows movie maker. simple but powerful video editing tool!
VLC: an open-source media player that's reliable and has been around for a long time! you can even customize it!!