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    Sep 19, 2024  
Catalog 2024-2025

CSD 112 HTML and CSS

5 credits


This course is an introduction to HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).  Students examine the key components of HTML to create functional web pages and apply CSS style sheets to improve page layout and overall appearance. Class teaches elements of responsive web design and techniques of its implementation.

Prerequisites: ENGL 93  (or placement into ENGL 99  or higher) and MATH 87  or AHSE 66  (or placement into MATH 90  or AHSE 76  or higher)

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Write syntactically correct HTML code using the latest version of HTML language
  • Create basic HTML web pages which are displayed correctly in modern web browsers
  • Use links and images to design aesthetically pleasing and functional web pages
  • Create forms to gather user input
  • Incorporate tables into the web pages to display data
  • Write style sheets using latest version of the CSS language
  • Use correctly text, font, background, border, list, float, margin, padding, display and other CSS property groups
  • Use CSS rules together with HTML layout elements to change the layout of a page
  • Explain the key principles of responsive web design and techniques of their implementation
  • Validate and debug HTML and CSS code
  • Design and develop websites compliant with web standards
  • Design and develop websites that reflect cultural awareness

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcome:

  • be prepared to obtain an entry-level position in software development
  • use web technologies and scripting languages to create web sites and web applications

 
College-Wide Learning Outcomes
This course teaches to the college-wide learning outcome of Cultural Humility, the ability to practice lifelong learning and critical self-reflection in order to understand one’s own cultural identity and its impact on being open to and supporting the cultures of others.

Total Hours: 60 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 40 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 20