Week 01: Review of the Web, HTML and CSS

Lecture

This first class lecture focuses on a general discussion of programming and a review of what you should have already learned in Web Design 1: The basics of the Internet and world wide web, HTML, and CSS. We will also go over what to expect for the rest of the semester.

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Homework

  1. Set up a GitHub account. It's free and easy. There's a ton of free stuff for students we'll talk about later.
  2. Reading: Read Chapter One, Chapter Two, and the first three sections of Chapter Three. You should do the exercises/tasks to make sure you understand the material, but I won't be collecting those.
  3. Assignment: Build a static html and css sketch. Send a link to your work, either hosted on your own site, as a gist, jsbin, or similar to zachary.schwartz@qc.cuny.edu by Thursday February 8th at 9am. Here is an example of what to do. It should have
    • Your name in a heading
    • A photo of you (an easy way to do this is to load your profile picture from github)
    • Three short paragraphs about you, with some links to websites you like
    • A nav bar, with a fake login link
    • Similar or better design to my example. Use different styles for links in the nav and links in the div. Feel free to go crazy.

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