Slides and materials are hosted at http://anything.codes/gdi-intro-html-css.
This curriculum is based on the official Girl Develop It Core HTML/CSS. It was customized by Liz Shaw, Chapter Leader of Girl Develop It's Boston chapter. Original curriculum developed through the contributions of Pamela Fox, Alexis Goldstein, Erin M. Kidwell, Izzy Johnston, and Jen Myers.
The course is meant to be taught in 4 two-hour sections. Each of the slides and practice files are customizable according to the needs of a given class or audience.
- Your laptop (Mac, PC, or Linux are all okay).
- A modern web browser - Google Chrome recommended.
- A text editor. We recommend Sublime Text (free; available for Mac, PC, and Linux).
Introduction to HTML. What is it? Why does it matter?
You will go through the basic history of HTML, including how it interacts with the browser and why that matters. Then you will discuss the layout of an HTML page, including the html, body, and head tags, as well as nesting. Finally, you will go through many of the basic HTML elements.
Students will begin to make a personal portfolio page with HTML elements and no styling.
Introduction to CSS. Colors? Styles? What? It's all true. And you thought we were going to make you live your life in black and white.
You will go through most of the CSS styles, including font changes, layout, size, and color. You will learn how to connect them to HTML selectors. The CSS file will be an external file.
Students will add CSS styling to their portfolio.
Introduction to divs, spans, IDs and classes. You didn't think we would just leave you with paragraphs and lists, did you? No, my friends. We are going to dive into these super valuable container elements. Then learn how to have ID and class selectors in our CSS. After all, who wants every paragraph to look the same?
Students will start customizing their portfolio with all sorts of goodies.
Box model? Floating? Columns? What is this sorcery? After being brought through the core of HTML and CSS, we'll give you the next steps to be pros.
Students will add columns, footers and headers to their portfolios.