Beginners Guide to Web Development

Description

Web technologies are growing rapidly, and by building a solid foundation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you are beginning your journey and riding the wave of innovation.

This practical course is your one-stop guide to learning web development. You will begin with learning HTML and CSS to design and build professional, beautiful, and truly responsive websites. You will then learn basics as well as advanced techniques in JavaScript to build dynamic websites and web applications. Along the way, you will also be introduced to JavaScript frameworks, plugins, and libraries with practical examples. Next, you will learn performing scraping on websites data wherein you will firstly learn to perform scraping on static web pages and then writing more sophisticated scripts for dynamic websites. Finally, you will learn some JavaScript scraping libraries and packages to automate scraping tasks.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 3 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Practical HTML and CSS, covers the fundamentals of HTML and CSS to build professional, beautiful, and truly responsive websites that will maximize the value you can create. This course will give you the confidence to take on any web design by knowing what is possible, how to find the answers to the unknown, and how to make your website stand out from the crowd.

In the second course, Real-World JavaScript: Pro-Level Techniques for Entry-Level Developers, you will not only begin learning the basics of JavaScript, but also enable a high level of interactivity that lets you accept payments, validate inputs, and create a winning User Experience. Along the way, you will learn how to dynamically load content on a page using AJAX and add interactive elements to your site with Bootstrap and jQuery, which will greatly help in reducing page load times and your development time. Integrate your website with both open-source and paid jQuery plugins that will allow you to rapidly enhance your site's interactivity and responsiveness.

The third course, Learning Web Scraping with JavaScript, is the ultimate guide to using the latest features of JavaScript and Node.js to scrape data from websites. Firstly, you'll see how to extract data from static web pages. After learning the basics, you'll get hands-on practice of building more sophisticated scripts. You'll determine when and how to scrape data from a JavaScript-dependent website using JavaScript scraping libraries. You'll also learn to automate these actions with JavaScript packages such as Cheerio and CasperJS.

By the end of this course, you will learn the core technologies of web development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript ) to build your own websites and web applications. You will also learn to perform web scraping on them.

Meet Your Expert(s):

We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• Nick Ruffilo has been a software and web developer for 20+ years. He has used JavaScript to develop web sites, web services, video games, native apps, and interactive ebooks. Nick has taught people of all ages, and focuses on providing the most impactful learning while teaching the skills necessary to continue your education. Nick Ruffilo is an entrepreneur, technology manager, software developer, and teacher. He understands the balance between a need to understand what's going on and the need to actually get things done.

• Mustapha Mekhatria is the founder of SmartRTOS com and he is a JavaScript enthusiast. He enjoys setting up projects with Node.js, MongoDB, and VueJS. He publishes articles and videos about programming also has his own Youtube Channel. He likes sharing knowledge and strongly believes that everything is easy to understand if taught well.

What You Will Learn!

• Build a foundation in HTML and the semantics of good coding style
• Unravel the worth of the cascading nature of CSS: IDs, classes, tags, and pseudo-classes
• Develop responsive websites and web applications for any device
• Get familiar with cross-browser support to ensure your site will look great on different browsers and devices
• Make dynamic websites and web applications with JavaScript
• Dynamically load content to a page using Ajax, greatly reducing page load times
• Create interactive elements quickly with Bootstrap and jQuery to reduce your development time
• Integrate with thousands of open-source and paid jQuery plugins, allowing you to rapidly create amazing things
• Learn how to build a simple and powerful JavaScript scraping script
• Understand how to create a web scraping tool using JavaScript and Node js

Who Should Attend!

• This is an ideal course for Novice developers looking to get started with web development.

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