1.5 - HTML: The Basics
Heads up - next TUESDAY, the 24th is a school mass. Come to class for attendance and then we will walk to the church together.
Today's lesson is mostly live demo. If you miss class, click the links below to learn independently (and ask a classmate).
Coding a GUI - HyperText Markup Language
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a language that describes what we want to see in a document. On the "Web", the GUI is created by writing HTML in a document, similar to writing a book or essay. A consortium of people decide on the standards of the HTML language. HTML (now at version 5) has grown to include buttons, sliders, animations and way more.
Last class we went over the structure of an HTML file, and some of the simpler tags like <title>
🤔 Does anyone have any questions so far?
Curious About HTML?
Entire list of tags by category and by alphabet
You could read through the HTML syntax guide
Have a look at proper indenting of an HTML page