Jon Tan
I’m a developer but more importantly, an adult stuck in a kids body. I moved to Hawaii from San Francisco and love to travel. I also enjoy teaching and watching students have a good time and grow.
Yukio Yamamoto
Im a full stack developer specializing in web applications. Born and raised here on Oahu, I grew up in the public school system here. I graduated from Moanalua high school in 2014. Since then, I have been studying and working in the development industry for almost 2 years. I hope I can pass what knowledge I’ve gained over the years to students who are eager to learn what I enjoy filling my time with most.
In this course, we will learn all about designing and building a website. You will be creating your own web pages from the ground up!
Web Development refers to the building, creating, and maintaining of a website or web application. Web Development also includes many types of web content creation. We will be writing code in a text editor to help us create web page files that make up our website.
Let’s take a step back and talk about how the World Wide Web works.
When two computers are connected to the Internet, they can talk to each other. When you go onto a website, you’re being sent an HTML file (more on HTML later) from a server that’s hosting the site.
A server is a computer that serves a purpose. And in this case, the purpose is hosting web page files to be sent out to clients, which are other computers that connect to the server by typing in the website’s URL. A site’s content (all that stuff a website talks about) is organized within a special set of rules that computers understand; sort of like speaking in a secret, coded language, except we will soon be in on this little secret as well!
The web browser (such as Google Chrome) is asking to view a website from the server where the site’s files live. The server is sending the files back and the browser is translating them to display a page on the screen. And this happens very quickly!
It’s all about communication and sharing information.
Because of all this, a site you write locally (on your computer) can’t be seen by other people on a different computer, until you move the files to a server. We’ll will get into that later on.
Click here to move on to the next reading, “Relationship between HTML, CSS, and JS”.