Free Crash Course: Build your first home page

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 Artemij Fedosejev (http://artemij.com), The Iron Yard's Front End 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:

Workshop materials (https://github.com/RockitBootcamp/WebWorkshop/archive/master.zip)

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