In our 6th meeting this is what we covered:
- Demonstration of Piper: an engineering toy that teaches kids about how computers are put together
- Overview of Web Page Languages:
- HTML: Hypertext Markup Language – the “skeleton” of the page
- CSS: Cascading Stylesheets – the “skin” or “outfit” for the page
- PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessing language; one of many programming languages, and the one used for WordPress coding – the “muscle” behind the page
- SQL: Structured Query Language – the way the page and the database talk to each other
- Intro to HTML and CSS:
- PowerPoint presentation
- Hands-on exercise: build your own HTML page using a text editor
- On-line tool for HTML/CSS/Scripting: jsFiddle – allows you to type your HTML and CSS and preview the output
- Community Project:
- Begin layout for the Film Details page using HTML and CSS
Fox Valley Girls Coding Club 