Introduction to Web Development
Introduction to Web Development is a one-stop course that covers all of the tools you’ll need to create websites.
What you'll learn
Introduction to Web Development is a one-stop course that covers all of the tools you’ll need to create websites.
The course contains in-depth discussions of each of “The Big Three” tools used for Website development:
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- And JavaScript as well as getting started with GitHub and Node.js
Table of contents
- Hypertext Markup Language 6m
- My First Web Page 3m
- HTML Tags - Meta, Content 11m
- Exercise 1: Creating a New Page 8m
- Exercise 1: Solution 12m
- Audience Questions 10m
- Review 4m
- HTML Tags - Void Tags 13m
- HTML Tags - Grouping 5m
- HTML Classes 5m
- HTML ID’s 7m
- HTML Tags - Naming 3m
- Exercise 2 - Giving Classes 10m
- Exercise 2 - Solution 13m
- What Is CSS? 8m
- CSS Better Practices 11m
- CSS Text Properties and Measurements 9m
- CSS Boxes 8m
- CSS Box Questions 4m
- CSS Positioning 10m
- CSS Shortcuts 8m
- CSS Order and Specificity 7m
- CSS Specificity Best Practices 12m
- CSS Resets and the Developer Tools 6m
- Audience Questions 10m
- CSS Document Flow 12m
- CSS Float Tips 10m
- Exercise 3: Styling a Page 6m
- Exercise 3: Solution 3m
- Exercise 3: Final Questions 12m
- CSS Conclusion 11m
- An Introduction to Programming 4m
- Exercise 4: Seeing Results 3m
- JavaScript Variables, Variable Types, and Reserved Words 5m
- Exercise 5: Writing JavaScript 4m
- JavaScript Operators, Expressions, and Comparisons 7m
- JavaScript Logical Operators and Arrays 6m
- Exercise 6: Arrays 3m
- Exercise 7: Manipulating Arrays 3m
- JavaScript If Statements 7m
- JavaScript For Statements 10m
- JavaScript Functions 15m
- JavaScript Scope 4m
- JavaScript Objects and Context 9m
- JavaScript Objects and Context Questions 12m
- Anonymous Functions 8m
- Additional JavaScript Topics 2m
About the authors
Nina is a Senior Software Engineer at reddit, working on redditgifts.com. She’s been a developer for over 8 years, with experience in several programming languages, most recently Python and Javascript. In her spare time, she skis, snowboards, climbs, and mountain bikes from her home base in Park City, UT.
Brian Holt is presently the redditgifts front-end developer at reddit. This essentially means he gets paid to use JavaScript, CSS, and HTML to help you connect to the world around you, gain deep and meaningful insight, and look at cat pictures for hours. When not saving the world one line of JavaScript at time, Brian loves to ski, mountain bike, run, and hang out with his wife and Havanese puppy. Brian is currently a resident of Salt Lake City, UT.
