Coding for Beginners: HTML and CSS

Who: General Assembly
Where: General Assembly New Campus, 1218 3rd Ave, Seattle
When: January 21, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
What: HTML and CSS are the fundamental building blocks of the web. Whether you’re a beginner who wants to get started in web development, a designer looking to hand-code their concepts, or a marketer who wants a little more control over their CMS, you’ll need to know HTML and CSS to get the job done.
This session, designed for the beginner programmer, will assume no previous coding knowledge. We’ll go over key coding terminology and principles, introduce languages like HTML and CSS—what their functions are, how they work together—and use that new knowledge to write our own code and develop our own simple site.

Takeaways

Basics of the internet and how webpages work
Syntax of HTML and CSS
How to modify the code of existing websites
Techniques to use at-home when stuck on code.

Prereqs & Preparation

Preparation: Please bring a laptop with Atom installed on it.
About the Instructor

Judah Stevenson is a Front-End Developer at K2 Sports, in Seattle, Washington, where he lovingly handcrafts and grooms the presentation layer for many large e-commerce sites serving multiple brands in the Outdoor and Snow sports Industries. Some of the sites that he works on include Line Skis, Full Tilt Boots, Atlas Snowshoes, and Madshus Nordic Skis.
Previously Judah worked as a web designer and developer specializing in User Experience, working with clients that range from B2B Channel Marketers to Senior Care Specialists. And his professional history extends even further beyond web development, into Graphic Design, Politics, and even Theater.
This rich and varied background helps Judah work with website owners and content creators to understand the way the web functions, how their designs can be brought to life, and introduce them to the concept of front end development, specifically HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
One of Judah’s passions is making the web more accessible for everyone who uses it, not only by using web standards to craft semantic, mobile-first, content-driven websites, but also by helping to introduce the world of HTML + CSS to anyone who aspires to learn coding, or even just take a more active role in authoring websites.
When Judah isn’t fighting for truth and good on the internet, he can be found trailing about 5 feet behind his 3-year-old son, Leo, trying desperately to keep up.