Course Overview
Modern organizations depend heavily on the web to perform core business operations such as marketing, advertising, and selling products, providing services, and communicating with customers, partner organizations, and employees. Whatever you're creating on the web, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript™ likely play an important role. These three languages provide the core toolkit for anyone looking to perform web development work. This course covers the fundamentals of web development using these three languages.
Course Objectives
Set up the tools and resources you need to perform Web Development.
Create web pages in HTML, constructing valid, well-formed elements, including navigation links, sections, titles, and semantic markup.
Enhance HTML content with tables, images, movies, and audio.
Apply styles to HTML elements using CSS.
Use CSS to format the edges, size, position, and layering of HTML elements.
Apply complex style rules using advanced CSS selectors, including pseudo-class selectors, structural selectors, and pseudo-element selectors.
Create complex layouts using CSS newspaper style columns, grid layouts, and flexible box layouts.
Improve the quality of web content, including adaptability (different displays and devices), searchability, usability, and accessibility.
Submit data through URL query strings and web forms for processing by a web application server.
Write JavaScript code to make web pages more interactive, perform data processing tasks directly in the browser, and manipulate items in the current web page.
Write JavaScript code to iterate through collections of elements in a page to get and set their attributes and add event listener code.
Use third-party libraries and frameworks for web front-end development.
Who Should Attend?
While no prior programming or web development experience is required, target students should have good foundational computer skills.
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Prerequisites
This course assumes that students have strong experience working with computers. Previous experience programming in other languages is helpful, but not required for students to benefit from this course.
Detailed Class Syllabus
Lesson 1: Setting Up Your Web Development Environment
Topic A: Prepare Your Web Platform
Topic B: Prepare Your Web Development Tools and Processes
Topic C: Monitor the Web Request-Response Cycle
Lesson 2: Creating Web Content in HTML
Topic A: Create a Basic Web Page
Topic B: Provide Navigation Links Between Web Pages
Topic C: Improve Web Page Structure and Navigation
Lesson 3: Adding Tables and Multimedia Content to a Web Page
Topic A: Create a Table
Topic B: Embed Images, Movies, and Audio in a Web Page
Lesson 4: Applying Styles to Web Content
Topic A: Apply Styles to HTML
Topic B: Create a Style Sheet
Topic C: Use Web Fonts
Lesson 5: Controlling Edges, Size, and Position
Topic A: Format Element Edges and Corners
Topic B: Control an Element's Height and Width
Topic C: Control an Element's Position and Layering
Topic D: Normalize and Reset Browser CSS Defaults
Lesson 6: Applying Complex Style Rules
Topic A: Use Advanced Selectors
Topic B: Manage User Interface States
Topic C: Make Structure Apparent to Users
Topic D: Use CSS Pseudo-Element Selectors
Lesson 7: Creating Complex Layouts
Topic A: Use CSS to Create Newspaper Style Columns
Topic B: Use CSS to Create Grid Layouts
Topic C: Use CSS to Create Flexible Box Layouts
Lesson 8: Improving Web Content
Topic A: Adjust the Layout for a Wide Variety of Devices
Topic B: Perform Basic Search Engine Optimization
Topic C: Test Your Website
Lesson 9: Submitting Data to a Web Server for Processing
Topic A: Submit Data Through a URL
Topic B: Submit Data Through a Web Form
Lesson 10: Writing JavaScript Code
Topic A: Add JavaScript to a Web Page
Topic B: Perform Operations on Data
Topic C: Program Repetitive Tasks
Topic D: Manipulate DOM Object
Lesson 11: Enumerating and Processing Collections of Elements
Topic A: Enumerate Elements
Topic B: Attach Events Through Code
Lesson 12: Using Third-Party Libraries and Frameworks
Topic A: Use a Third-Party JavaScript Library
Topic B: Create a Web Page Based on a Third-Party Framework