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Program Components

Technical Content: This contains the technical content of the track you
chose. All of this content is available in the Udacity classroom for you to
access during the program.

Certification Assessment: Passing the certification assessment is the only

way to get your Certificate of Completion for this track. You’ll find all the
details related to this topic in the “Certification Assessment” part in this
classroom.

Online Community: Throughout your entire journey in this phase, you will
have access to an online community platform, where you will get to ask other
students and tutors for support to help you overcome any learning difficulties
or even to network!

This is going to be a fun ride!

Depending on when you enrolled, you have a maximum of 8 weeks from your
first day of enrollment to complete all the content and pass the Certification
Assessment, passing the assessment within that duration is a must to get
your Certificate of Completion. Of course, you can also do that in less than 8
weeks (e.g. 6 weeks or even 5 weeks) if you work harder!
Learners who enroll between July 15, 2024 and July 14, 2027 will enjoy a
full 8 weeks to complete the course. Those who enroll after May 19, 2027
will need to complete the full course and pass the Certification
Assessment before July 14, 2027 in order to get certified.

Your Weekly Schedule

Follow this recommended weekly schedule to stay on track. Of course, you
can always be ahead of the schedule and graduate earlier!

Program Schedule

Week
Content
Number
1 Introduction to the Program
2 Descriptive statistics
3 Spreadsheets
4 Spreadsheets
Business Metrics
5
Try passing the Certification Assessment
Week
Content
Number
6 Finish and Graduate

Your Date of Enrollment

You can know your date of enrollment from the "My Programs" section in the
classroom as illustrated below.

Udacity Online Community

What is a Community platform? It's a discussion platform that will host your
program’s Community. There, you can network with your peers, Mentors, and
Udacity Community Team.
Within your online community you can:

1. Ask any technical question you have regarding your track content or the field
related to your track in general
2. Get technical support from your tutors and peers
3. Read useful resources and topics to deepen your knowledge in the world of
technology
4. Build your professional network by being part of a vibrant community of
aspiring programmers
5. Know all the updates and news regarding the Program Challenge
6. Participate in interesting discussions about technology, careers, and much
more!

What is Community NOT for? For being unfriendly, disrespectful, and

unproductive, and for any other violations of Udacity Community Guidelines.

Community Guidelines
By checking all the following boxes, you are committing to the Udacity
community guidelines:
Meet Your Instructors
Welcome! Let's meet your instructors for this course: Karl Krueger, Kelly Howard, and Abe
Feinberg.

Karl
Hi, I'm Karl! I got started coding sometime after my dad brought home a
computer when I was six or seven years old. Before joining Udacity, I was a
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google for eight years, building automation
and monitoring to keep the world's busiest web services online.

Kelly
And I'm Kelly! I originally got a degree in chemistry and studio art, but I fell in
love with programming as soon as I got my first web application.
Abe
Like Kelly, I don't have a conventional background for a programmer. It wasn't
until after I spent 10 years in school and graduated with a degree in
psychology that I realized I was fascinated by computer science.

So I had to start all over. At first, I worried a lot about whether I had the "right
sort of brain" for programming, or whether it was a good idea to change
careers later in life.

After working in Silicon Valley for over five years now, I've learned that there's
a huge variety of people—with all sorts of brains and all sorts of backgrounds
—who use coding every day in their work.

If you're new to coding and are worried about getting started, I hope you'll put
that all aside for the moment and just try to have fun with it in the coming
lessons. By the way, this is exactly the way I got started myself—I'm a Udacity
student too, and graduated from an old version of this exact course!

Note: You won't see me in any of the videos, but I'll be your guide throughout
the text and practice exercises!

Course Outline
This course is divided into four parts. Here's a brief outline so you'll know what
to expect:

1. The Web and HTML

In this lesson, we'll be exploring how to create web pages---and, along the
way, you'll learn some important concepts about how computer languages
work more generally.
2. Lab: Basic HTML Page
In this lab, you'll demonstrate your understanding of HTML basics by turning
your notes from the lesson into a simple---but fully functional---web page.

3. Intro to CSS
By the time you get to this lesson, you'll know how to create a web page—but
only a simply and somewhat boring one. So in this lesson, we'll learn how to
add style to a web page through the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

4. Project: Animal Trading Cards

Finally, you'll bring your combine knowledge of HTML and CSS together to
create a web-based trading card depicting your favorite animal. This will
demonstrate all the core skills you need to create a fully styled web page.

Introduction to the Web and HTML

In this lesson you're going to get started creating web pages—and you'll learn
some important concepts about how computer languages work along the way.
For your reference, here's the outline of this lesson that Karl and Kelly went
over in the video:

 The Web. We'll talk about what the Web is and—at a basic level—how it
works.
 Tools for Editing. You'll get practice editing web pages using a text editor
and testing your work in a browser.
 HTML. You'll learn the fundamentals of HTML, the computer language we use
to structure and write webpages.
 URLs. You'll also learn about URLs, the addresses that we use to refer to
documents and sites on the web.

You'll put all of this together by taking notes on what you've learned and
turning those notes into a web page, which you'll submit for your first lab.
We
b pages are written in HTML, and the links among web pages and other resources are what
makes the web "web-like".

By the way, HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language

Hypertext is all about references and links!

Take a guess—what do you think the H in HTML stands for?

The H stands for Hyper—as in HyperText.

And HTML Stands for HyperText Markup Language. We'll explain

what markup is shortly!
Question 3 of 3

 A browser gets web pages by communicating with servers over the internet.
 Servers are computers that have programs running on them which answer a
browser’s requests.
Question 1 of 4