Wrap-Up
You did it! 🎉 Thank you so much for spending your evening with us. I hope that thinking about your reason for why you came, you feel like this time was well-spent and you gained some new knowledge, whether that’s about code, Turing, or even yourself!
At the beginning of this workshop, we discussed that building the Front-End portion of an application requires HTML, CSS, & JavaScript. We focused on HTML and CSS, but that alone won’t be the interactive components of this website.
HTML
HTML holds the content we see on a page (text, images) and defines the structure and order in which the content appears.
We can think of HTML as the skeleton of our webpage; without it, we'd just be a blob:
CSS
CSS defines the look and feel of a webpage - it can change the size or layout of items on a page, change colors, fonts, and more!
We can think of CSS as anything that makes us unique and recognizable - our skin, hair, clothes, style, etc.
JavaScript
JavaScript is what lets the user interact with a page. For example, clicking a button and getting some sort of response.
We can think of JavaScript as the brain and muscle of our webpage, as it powers all the action:
If you want to continue your learning, join us for another workshop!