Learn By Example: The Foundations of HTML, CSS & Javascript

Closures, prototypes, JSON, the DOM, selectors, inheritance in CSS and in Javascript, and first class functions - that's what this course is about. This is not a course on Javascript frameworks - its about solid, fundamental HTML, CSS and Javascript. You'll be surprised by how much more you can get done on your web pages once you learn these technologies the right way.

What do we mean by that. Relatively few folks formally learn HTML, CSS or Javascript, because its quite easy to get stuff done in these technologies in a "quick-and-dirty way". That "quick-and-dirty" way of learning and doing leads to problems over time, because Javascript and CSS are actually quite complex, so it is easy to do things the wrong way This course will help, because it has 75 examples, 20 in HTML/CSS and 55 in Javascript.

Each is self-contained, has its source code attached, and gets across a simple, specific use-case. Each example is simple, but not simplistic. What's Included: Basic HTML: Folks stopped counting HTML as a language worth formally learning sometime in the 90s, but this is only partially justified.

It always helps to have strong basics. CSS: Cascading Stylesheets are incredibly powerful, and incredibly hard to use - until you know how they really work. Once you understand inheritance and selection in CSS, it will all make a lot more sense.