Good start, you should try doing it on codepen so you can save and continue your work. Also f12 will open developer tools in most browsers then there is no need for inspect element, unless inspecting :)
Benefit is once you are happy with what you learnt via freecodecamp or codeacademy or those videos then you can easily link helper libraries into your codepens to see how they make life a bit easier.
Keep having fun looking forward to the next posts.
Thanks for the advice. It's definitely a bit of a new challenge for me, but I'm having fun.