Intro to HTML and CSS

Name: Intro to HTML and CSS
Rating: 3.95 (40 reviews)

via Udacity

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Udacity
Pricing

Free Online Course
Languages

English
Duration & workload

3 weeks long
Sessions

On-Demand
Level

Beginner

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Overview

Throughout this course, you'll learn about the underlying structure of the web - HTML. You'll learn how to use this tree-like structure to create websites. You'll also learn how to apply styling to a website through CSS. You'll learn about CSS syntax, selectors, and units. Along the way, you'll also learn about code editors and a browser's Developer Tools.

Syllabus

HTML Syntax

Learn HTML tags,Discover the tree-structure format of HTML,Learn about and install a text editor

HTML Syntax Problem Set

Add headers to structure a page,Create a list of items,Add images to an existing site

CSS Syntax

Write a CSS Ruleset.,Use CSS units to place content on the page,Use Developer Tools to debug CSS

CSS Syntax Problem Set

Style images,Style the font of the page,Create and link a stylesheet

Taught by

Cameron Pittman

Reviews

4.0 rating, based on 40 Class Central reviews

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Gregory J Hamel ( Life Is Study) @greg

Gregory J Hamel ( Life Is Study) completed this course and found the course difficulty to be easy.

Intro to HTML and CSS is a 3-lesson primer on front-end web development and design. Although the name of the course suggests you'll learn HTML and CSS basics, the content is actually focused on higher level web development and design concepts like web...

Intro to HTML and CSS is a 3-lesson primer on front-end web development and design. Although the name of the course suggests you'll learn HTML and CSS basics, the content is actually focused on higher level web development and design concepts like web page and project structure, responsive design and web frameworks. The course spends very little time talking about nuts and bolts like different HTML tags and CSS properties. The content itself is well done, it just strays a bit from what you'd expect given the title of the course. It should be entitled "Fundamentals of front-end web development/design" or something similar.

This course is hard to rate given that the content is good, but it doesn't quite fulfill the expectations set by the title. As such, I'm subtracting 1 star from what is otherwise a nice, short intro to front end web development. If you want to learn HTML nuts and bolts, the first week of Udacity's "web development" spends a lot more time going over HTML tags. The HTML and CSS courses on Code Academy and Code School are also good options.

I give this course 3.5 out of 5 stars: Good.
Anurag Anand @maanand

This course is ideal for the total beginner. It zooms in on the very essence of HTML and CSS and makes the student familiar with basic concepts. After completing this course, the student can make a thorough decision on whether to pursuit this road or not. The learning material is easy to follow, whilst still being quick paced. I highly recommend this FREE class.
Marko Vuolevi

Marko Vuolevi completed this course, spending 4 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

They try to approach the way to teach web development in a somewhat unique way, instead of learning the old fashion way they instead use a top-down methodology. In other words, they take a finished website and go through how it is constructed instead...

They try to approach the way to teach web development in a somewhat unique way, instead of learning the old fashion way they instead use a top-down methodology. In other words, they take a finished website and go through how it is constructed instead of building up the website from scratch. A rather interesting approach, and possibly more fun than the usual way to learn. Are not entirely sure that this approach is the best for beginners, there is a risk that beginners miss fundamental concepts of how websites are contructed and works.

The course itself is unfortunately not of the best quality, it starts pretty promising (the first 1/3 of the course) but gets worse and worse the further you get into the course. It feels a bit unpolished and unfinished, as if they had not enough time to complete it properly and just threw something together to deliver what was promised in the beginning of the course. I have seen this pattern on a previous Udacity course before, where it started very promising but then lost a lot of quality towards the end of the course.

So, would I recommend this course? Well, it contains some good parts, but also misses a lot of important key concepts. If you feel that you have some spare time and have a little bit of experience with web development, why not. If you are a total rookie in web development, better take some other course.
Bobby Brady @bob

Bobby Brady completed this course and found the course difficulty to be easy.

The title is a tad incorrect, this course is not an Introduction to HTML and CSS. You must already know all your html tags, attributes, elements and css selectors. What it is really great at though, is providing the student with solid knowledge of topics not often covered in regular web design courses, such as responsive grid designs, media queries, google fonts and css frameworks. It's quick, to the point and gives you everything necessary to build a nice modern but simple web page with marketable tools.
Prose Simian

Prose Simian completed this course, spending 9 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

I went through 95%* of this in about 8-9 hours total. It's... so so. A bit of a whistle stop tour of html & CSS, which left me feeling like I'd got it figured out, until I ran into roadblocks trying to do apparently simple things. Perhaps I missed them,...

I went through 95%* of this in about 8-9 hours total. It's... so so. A bit of a whistle stop tour of html & CSS, which left me feeling like I'd got it figured out, until I ran into roadblocks trying to do apparently simple things. Perhaps I missed them, perhaps Udacity let these details slip though the gaps (while focussing on the important stuff: house-style, pep-talks and humour...) A couple of examples:
- you do the earlier project before learning (almost in passing) how to apply multiple classes to one element.
- only towards the end does anyone mention the order of the CSS links in the element affects how they're applied.

That said, I got my pages into reasonable shape, and I'm glad I stuck with it to the final section, and Jacques Favreux's walk-through of converting a mockup to into a responsive web page using Bootstrap, which were the hightlght of the show, and full of tips (not to mention clarifying my two sticking points from the previous para.)

So... overall not too bad if a little more frustrating than absolutely necessary. If you don't mind a learning-by-doing approach, overall a reasonable place to get your feet wet with html/css, and responsive web design (via Bootstrap).

*Everything apart from implementing a modal, right at the end.
Harshvardhanpatel

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Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

The pace picks up rapidly and at times you are left struggling to work out exactly what is required to move on. The principles are sound, but it jumps into Bootstrap for the final 1/3 which is fine but a little disjointed from the first. There is not enough sharing of best practice output and the final project stretches well beyond anything covered in the course leaving you a bit stuck. You can make it LOOK just like the image but it can be done in a fundamentally incorrect way but no explanation as to why. The best section is in the final 1/3 where you have Jacques run through, albeit too quickly, the building of an example.
Wania Wania

Great very useful course. I totally loved this one. I need more courses like this one. This course is very useful for those who are the beginners in computer programming. Thank you For this course
Dissipate

Dissipate is taking this course right now and found the course difficulty to be hard.

Like many other reviewers commented, the title of this course is misleading. It is not an introductory course for complete beginners to HTML and CSS. The course is focussed on design, and I think you will need intermediate knowledge HTML and CSS, otherwise you will feel lost.

I went in with basic knowledge, and the first few videos were fine but got progressively worse as the instructors glazed over concepts and did not do much explaining. I felt like there were lots of gaps and I had to do a lot of self-learning. It was frustrating, and I stopped the course to explore other courses and books on web development.
Md Zobaidul Islam

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Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

The course is so so, but it teaches bad practices for front-end developers. It's definitely not a course for beginners since it does not teach fundamental aspects.
Pratham Soni

Much better experience than other courses and Loved the way they explained and took quiz just to be practical in every topic
Dimitrios Tosidis @dtosidis

Dimitrios Tosidis completed this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

A great introduction to the Bootstrap. Very easy-going approach and nice design examples. It is a practical, pragmatical and multi-side approach for developers, who lack of design methodologies and they can play with ready solutions and transform them into real sites. The course begins with easy steps and at the end you can build up furthermore, as you have the sources to do as extended as you want.
Lukas Rocabado Hinojosa

This course is ideal for the total beginner. It zooms in on the very essence of HTML and CSS and makes the student familiar with basic concepts. After completing this course, the student can make a thorough decision on whether to pursuit this road or not. The learning material is easy to follow, whilst still being quick paced. I highly recommend this FREE class.
Salem Mcgonagle

Salem Mcgonagle completed this course and found the course difficulty to be very easy.

A somewhat misleading title as most would benefit from a basic understanding of HTML/CSS prior to starting the course.

While touching on the basics of HTML/CSS the majority of the course is focused on design principles such as responsive grid designs and techniques such as media queries, google fonts and frameworks.

The course is best suited for those looking to move forward from an understanding of HTML/CSS Tags & Syntax into the basics of front-end web design.

Those with no prior experience in HTML/CSS should look elsewhere first.
Geoffrey Allen Jenkins

Geoffrey Allen Jenkins completed this course, spending 5 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

Fortunately, I had some previous experience with html so I was able to move through the course rather quickly. However, I found it enlightening in regards to learning some basic CSS language as well as promoting healthy design habits. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to "get their feet wet" in website design. *I don't think previous knowledge of HTML is necessary for this course.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

I came into this course completely new on html/css. Definitely feel like a lot of content was dropped on my and not thoroughly explained, it's really not a beginner course imo. I intend to do codeacademy's html/css and udacity's web development course and then come back to this course.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

It's an overview of modern html and css, I think it need more examples and explanation on some topics like flex and media queries, If you only need and overview an are willing to look for the concepts by yourself this is the course you need.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

I loved it, because it was the first stone to build my knowledge in the design of websites. And most importantly, I did not know anything and this course gave me the basics.
Panos Gr

Panos Gr completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

This course is definitely NOT FOR BEGINNERS. That being said it was a delight for me. Learn some html and css from more basic walk-through style classes like the ones offered at Coursera, Code Academy , even W3Schools and come back to this. Having some...

This course is definitely NOT FOR BEGINNERS.
That being said it was a delight for me. Learn some html and css from more basic walk-through style classes like the ones offered at Coursera, Code Academy , even W3Schools and come back to this. Having some knowledge on these subjects will help tremendously out and instead of giving you frustration it will teach and offer clarity for many concepts that seem a bit difficult to grasp at first.
It is , as mentioned by many others, a little more advanced course but it is very rewarding as you will learn a lot of industry approven techniques for coding up a website. There is even a 20 minute walkthrough of turning a mock-up design into a website towards the end, using Bootstrap and custom classes that really offers some insight to all the blurriness of the subject being taught.
The class is somewhat rushed, but again, it is not meant to teach HTML and CSS in depth but rather to give you an overview of what you can do with the languages so I recommend it , sure, as long as you're in it for higher-level concepts than coding.