Spring 2018 Syllabus

Spring 2018 was the first pilot semester of Code For Her.

HTML and CSS (3 weeks)

  • Introduction to HTML5 and Web Design
  • How to Create a Simple Web Page
  • How to Format Your Text
  • Adding Web Links, Images, Audio, Video
  • File paths and directories
  • Creating Tables
  • Forms
  • Adding Styles and Classes to Your Web Pages
  • Borders, Backgrounds, and Floating Divs
  • Building Web Page Layouts with CSS
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design with CSS3 and HTML5
  • Drawing with the Canvas Tag
  • Summary of New Elements and How to Use Them

JavaScript (3 weeks)

  • Variable Naming Rules and JavaScript Data Types
  • Expressions and Operators
  • Flow Control
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Defining Functions and Methods
  • Constructors and Inheritance
  • Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
  • JavaScript in Browsers
  • The Document Object Model (DOM)
  • How to Get Input and Output
  • Managing Web Page Styles using JavaScript and CSS

Content Management Systems and Develop your own site (2 weeks)

  • Purchasing and configuring a domain name and web hosting
  • Installing and creating your own Google Sites
  • Exploring the Admin Interface
  • Content customization: images, video, audio, tags, formats, etc.
  • Adding and displaying menus
  • Linking menus to articles and other features
  • Content creation: Posts vs Page