HTML & CSS

If I had to boil this class into its simplest terms it would be: It’s about building web pages.

Along the way we learn about programming tools, best practices and such, but the thing we do is build websites.

And again, in simplest terms, a web page is created using three languages. I like to explain those as if I was explaining a human body. The analogy is actually built into the HTML spec, as you’ll see.

The languages go like this:

• HTML is the skeleton of a web page. It gives it structure.
• CSS is like the DNA of a web page that describes how it looks. Color, font and things like that.
• JavaScript is the muscle of a web page, controlling all things that move and interact with each other.

Throughout the class we’ll tackle each of these languages, build on them and learn tools to help us use them.

When it comes to these languages there are many tutorials you can use to learn the syntax so I’m not going to reinvent them for this class.

So this is how you proceed with the next section of this class:

1. Do the Codecademy tutorials outlined. This is where you learn the code structure.
2. Do the “in-class” assignment, which is a guided walk through of using the code.
3. Do the “mastery” assignment, where you use what you’ve learned in a new project.
4. Take the quiz.