1.2. Web Programming Crash Course

The three main technologies we are going to use to build web apps are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I’d like to quickly cover each to make sure we’re all on the same page before plowing into the fancy stuff.

1.2.1. Intro to HTML

When you’re browsing the Web, the pages that you are viewing are just text documents sitting on someone else’s computer. The text in a typical web page is wrapped in HTML tags, which tell your browser about the structure of the document. With this information, the browser can decide how to display the information in a way that makes sense.