Introduction to Web Development

By Nina Zakharenko and Brian Holt
Introduction to Web Development is a one-stop course that covers all of the tools you’ll need to create websites.
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Apr 9, 2015
Duration
10h 58m
Table of contents
Introduction
Tools 9m Client and Server 3m
HTML
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
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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
JavaScript
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
jQuery
jQuery 10m jQuery Chaining 9m Responding to Users 13m Retrieving Text from an Input 6m Exercise 8: Set Text 3m Exercise 8: Solution 6m Other DOM Functions 3m Audience Questions 4m
AJAX
AJAX Introduction 13m Displaying Data 9m Exercise 9: Displaying Data from Reddit 7m Exercise 9: Solution 22m Troubleshooting 13m
Command Line
Introduction to the Command Line 7m Navigating with the Command Line 7m Git and Github 9m Git Status 7m Git Add, Commit, and Push 9m Cloning Review 14m Navigating Github.com 7m Pull Requests 10m Initializing a New Repository 8m
Node.js
Node.js Introduction 15m Node Package Manager 11m Express 9m Exercise 10: Cheer and Jeer 8m Static Assets 6m Receiving Parameters 4m Package.json 4m POSTing 5m Final Project - Client Side 19m Final Project - Server Side 10m
Description
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Apr 9, 2015
Duration
10h 58m
Description

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. This course gives you the skills you need to be a professional web developer. Course materials can be found at https://bit.ly/1jXij63

About the author
Nina Zakharenko
About the author

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
About the author

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.

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