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Unit 1: Introduction to Web Development
How many times per day do you access the web, to check on your email, buy something, or just to check out a friend’s latest snaps on a social media site? One of the most amazing things about the web is just how many services it provides. When learning how to create a website, there are a few concepts and sets of technologies that you need to be familiar with: front-end development, the client-server model and HTTP networking. You’re also going to start a journey toward mastering three essential development tools: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This might all sound like jargon right now, but soon you will be able to explain for yourself how all of these concepts relate and how they contribute to a working website.
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Unit 2: Introduction to HTML
You’re going to learn the basics of HTML, a straightforward markup language for structuring a hypertext document. HTML has been around for a while, and it’s been through a few changes. It’s absolutely everywhere on the web. We’ll do a walkthrough of a few basic HTML tags, and then we’ll dive into lists, tables, and forms. When we talk about forms, we’ll also talk a bit about HTTP requests and responses. It won’t be long before you start getting comfortable with how HTML works and how it makes web documents well-structured and accessible.
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Unit 3: Introduction to CSS
This is an introduction to Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is the style language of the web. HTML might be the bones, but CSS is the skin, clothes, and accessories that help us decide if we like what we’re looking at or not. CSS is easy to get started with but will become more complicated as we move along.
Unit 4: Introduction to JavaScript
Welcome to JavaScript, a fully-fledged and very powerful programming language. Huge applications are built with JavaScript, and it runs natively in your browser, but it can also run on the server or various other devices such as a smartphone. Recent advancements in the JavaScript developer universe have made JavaScript-capable of running many different kinds of applications. This is going to be a whirlwind introduction to a very deep subject. You’ll learn the basics of JavaScript, how to experiment with it, and how to use it to affect a web page. You’ll use it to interact with a user’s data submission, and you’ll get a view of how much potential the JavaScript world offers.
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Unit 5: Web Development Platforms
Up to now, we have been learning about how to create content for the World Wide Web. Now we are going to take explore the underpinnings of the WWW itself. In this unit, we will take a look at the different types of servers and hosting services where websites “live.” We’ll learn how to secure a unique name for your website so that any browser can locate it, and we’ll learn how to make the most of various browsers for various tasks. When we’ve put it all together, you’ll end up with your personal toolkit—the development stack that will let you build any website you can dream up.
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Unit 6: User-Centered Planning and Project Management
Thoughtful planning is crucial to success in any project but especially in web development. You need to start with a good understanding of your clients’ needs and goals and make sure that they correspond to what the site’s users need as well. There are many tools that will help you with the planning and production process. You will learn to make the most of them to develop an information architecture that can be both strong and flexible to meet your clients’ needs. You’ll also learn some tips to make your site even easier to find and use.
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Unit 7: Organizing Web Files
A good portion of web development is spent handling, organizing, moving, editing, and generally herding files. But handling files well is about keeping certain principles in mind, as well as understanding available tools. As your skills progress, you’ll learn more and more file types and file extensions, and you’ll develop solid practices for naming files and folders. You’ll start to develop strong skills for moving around filesystems while working on the command line or with a graphical user interface, and you’ll start thinking about directories as tree-like structures that put files into specific relationships with each other. You’ll also become accustomed to transferring files or directories of files to a server with a set of tools. Files are central to web dev, and you’re going to become very good at working with them.
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Unit 8: Web Project Workflow
It’s time to wrap up our introduction to web development with some concepts that round out our survey of the field. Project workflow—while somewhat personal with respect to individual developers’ roles and habits—does require familiarity with a number of frequently encountered ideas. The software development lifecycle is a way of looking at how software is developed through iterations of repeated, consistent steps. We’ll also look at one of the most important individual workflow topics: source code management. Particularly, we’ll take a look at one of the most common SCM tools out there—git—and we’ll see how a project is set up to accommodate SCM. Then, considering that knowledge is being acquired quickly, we’ll take an introductory look at two of the most common tasks in development: setting up a connection to a SQL database and uploading files to a server. Finally, we’ll round out with a brief overview of creating a test plan and introducing the idea of testing workflows, which are daily and continual parts of the web development process in the professional realm. We’ve come a long way during this introduction and, quite candidly, we’ve conducted an overview of the field which isn’t commonly given in other contexts that focus on coding alone or some specific idea. You’re starting to get a real picture of professional web development.
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