Programming Notes
Programming Notes
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.
Formalism. Computers take code literally, and will only do exactly what you tell it to do.
Nesting. Bits of code going inside other bits of code in an orderly way.
There's a lot of help! Make sure to use tools like documentation, or your favorite search engine if
you need to.
It's time to create an HTML file! You can do this either using the text editor you installed or the
workspace provided below. Specifically, let's create a file called notes.html that you can use to take
notes throughout this course.
Taking notes in this file will serve two purposes. First, as you go through the course, you can test out
your knowledge of HTML, by writing HTML code in this file and displaying it in your browser. And
second, the act of writing down the ideas will help you remember them better — and if you do forget
something, you can simply look at your notes!
Later on, at the very end of this lesson, you'll submit your notes file to our automatic grading
system and we'll check your HTML code!