More than 5 hours of lectures covering HTML, CSS, BootStrap, JavaScript and JQuery. You don’t need to know every detail of the topics to get started on building your website.
9 projects as assignments will force you to learn through yourself, whose knowledge will eventually retain in your body.
Why this course?
There are many web front-end courses out there. This course has the following features:
- You don’t need to know every detail to get started. This course goes through the essential parts of each subject with examples, not to a wildly comprehensive level, but enough to get you started.
- HTML + CSS + BootStrap + JavaScript + JQuery. A good package of skills and pretty much what you need to start to build a modern website front-end.
- No detail steps for your projects. You have to rely on yourself to use the knowledge learned to build your own projects. This could be hard. However, you would definitely be able to achieve it with patience and efforts.
Why there is no detail steps in those projects?
Usually a project is guided as a walk-through in other online courses. The good side is that you can follow the steps to build whatever it instructs you. However, simply typing by following instructions doesn’t give much to you. You have to first understand and then do it on your own to retain those knowledge in your body. Project without detail steps trains you on how to attack the problem (the project to be built in this case) using the knowledge learned. Hence, you need to do your research and find ways to solve each issue blocking you from going further.
There are two ways of thinking, reactive thinking and proactive thinking. Reactive is you start to remember something after logically reminded by other things. Proactive is thinking without direct reminding or hints. The latter is much more difficult than the former. Doing projects by reverse engineering trains you in the latter form.
What if I get stuck or don’t understand it?
Well, that’s the point of learning, right? Try to search online and use resources to solve your problems. You need to think and train yourself to learn how to attack any obstacles that in front of you.
But there are other courses that have longer duration and wider coverage on those topics?
You can learn comprehensively or learn what is enough to get you started. I personally enjoy knowing just what I need so that I can get my hands dirty on doing stuff. Look at those topics that are covered in this book, each one could be a complete book or course to study. It all depends on what you are interested in.
So what should I plan to do?
1. Watch the tutorial video and know the element topics in the tutorial.
2. Practice writing code of each element topic yourself and see the outcome of it. Any trouble, google it.
For project, you can design the layout first and then add in JavaScript/JQuery to control the logic.
HTML Essentials
CSS Essentials
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2HTML - intro and basic tags
This lecture talks about what HTML is, text editor you can use and start to look at some basic HTML tags such as <head>, <body>, <h1>, <p>, <br>
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3HTML - Attributes and Styles
Here we talk about some HTML attributes: id, name, value and etc. Also, we will start to use HTML styling, such as background-color, fonts and etc.
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4HTML - More tags <div>, <a>, <img>
We continue to talk about HTML tags. This time we will look at <div>, <span>, <a> and <img>
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5HTML - More tags <table>, <ul>, <ol>
More tags are coming here. We will be looking at how to build table and list in HTML.
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6HTML Project - A Simple Website
This is our first project. We'll build a simple website using the HTML knowledge we have learned so far. I know you can do it.
BootStrap Essentials
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7CSS - Intro and HTML element selectors
This is our first CSS tutorial video. We'll have a brief intro and start to look at some of the CSS powerful selectors.
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8CSS - Insert CSS to HTML; background property
We will look at different ways of inserting CSS elements into HTML. Besides that, we will look at some background properties.
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9CSS - Text property, font, hyperlink
In this tutorial, we will look at text, font and link property.
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10CSS - Box model; border, margin, padding, dimension
So here comes the box model, border, margin, padding and dimensions.
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11CSS - Display, position, z-index, float
We will talk about display, position, z-index and float property.
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12CSS Project - A Personal Website
This is our CSS project. We will be using HTML and CSS to build a modern website, which will make use of what we have learned so far.
JavaScript Essentials
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13BootStrap - Getting started
BootStrap is probably the most popular front-end framework currently. This tutorial will have a brief intro on it.
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14BootStrap - How to set up a template
Here we look at some of the BootStrap template and see how we can leverage it for our use.
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15BootStrap - How to use BootStrap components
We'll look at some BootStrap components and see how to actually use them. A login example is presented.
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16BootStrap - Using tables and nav bar
Here we look at how to use BootStrap table and navigation bar.
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17BootStrap Project - Music Website Front-End
In the example, I'm showing an online music store. Yet, it doesn't have to exactly the same. Use your imagination and knowledge learned to try.
JQuery Essentials
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18JavaScript - Setup
In this tutorial, we start to look at JavaScript. And this video addresses some of the tools we will be using.
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19JavaScript - Data types 1
This tutorial talks about the first part of data types.
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20JavaScript - Data types 2 and Operators
In this tutorial, we will be looking at the second part of data types. We'll also talk about the operators in JavaScript.
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21JavaScript - Conditional and loop statements
Conditional and Loop statements are important for controlling the logic of the program. We'll look at how to implement those in JavaScript
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22JavaScript - Arrays
This tutorial will look at array and some of its methods.
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23JavaScript - Functions
We start to look at functions in JavaScript and specifically how to define them.
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24JavaScript - Classes
This tutorial briefly talks about classes in JavaScript
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25JavaScript with Web - part 1
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26JavaScript with Web - part 2
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27JavaScript project - Random Quotes
This is our first JavaScript project and it's a simple online application that shows some famous quotes on the page. Everytime user clicks the button, a new quote will be shown in the text area.
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28JavaScript Project - Pomodoro Clock
This is our second JavaScript project. It's a timer application. Compared to the previous one, this is more complicated. You may need to do some research to finish it. Just be persistent and I know you can do it.
Some More Projects
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29JQuery - Intro
Here we start to look at JQuery, one of the most popular JavaScript framework.This tutorial gives a brief intro on JQuery and some of the basic ideas in JQuery.
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30JQuery - Effects
In this video, we will be looking at some interesting JQuery effects, which you can use to make your website vivid.
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31JQuery - HTML
Here we look at how to manipulate HTML elements using JQuery.
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32JQuery - AJAX
In this course, we will be talking about AJAX, which in general is for browser to exchange data with server without reloading the whole page.
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33JQuery Project - Calculator
In this project, we will develop a basic calculator application. You can use just JavaScript or you can use JQuery so that it helps on writing this app.
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34JQuery project - Tic Tac Toe
This is a Tic Tac Toe game. If you want to make it interesting, you might want to do some research on the algorithm part. If this project is really bogging you, you might want to skip it for now and come back later.