This workshop is designed for beginners who would like exposure to web technologies and get hands-on experience using HTML, CSS & JavaScript. You’ll spend the session learning from Jez De Silva, The Iron Yard’s Frontend Engineering instructor who is an experienced professional web developer. At the end of the day you’ll have the beginnings of a home page to take with you along with suggested next steps for your learning path.
To get the full experience of the workshop you will need the following:
– Bring a laptop.
– Download Sublime which is a free text editor. Here is the link: http://www.sublimetext.com/
– Download materials before you arrive:
If you can’t make it to the workshop, please let us know!
Agenda
Basics of HTML
– Discuss the Purpose of HTML
– Demonstrate Tags, Nesting, Attributes,
– Demonstrate Structure of a Document
– Demonstrate Links
Discuss Basics of CSS
– Demonstrate CSS Basics
– Use CSS Basic Properties
– Explain CSS Defaults
– Discuss Basic Selector Strategy
Project Challenge
– Build a page with HTML and CSS
Second Project Challenge (Intro to JavaScript and Jquery)
– Improve your project with a little JavaScript and JQuery
