Your road to making web projects

If you want to build or manage a web project, these are useful things to know and get good at.

Internet 101

• What is internet? It's more than you think!
• What People Mean When They Talk About ‘The Cloud’? Hint: it's actually hardcore.

So you want to make a website

We are aiming to make things from scratch. If you wonder why, read this.

• Make a website
• Make webpages interactive

So you want to be fast

Read this for historical context: In the Beginning There Was Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Get a free txt file or pay $10 for it. Your choice.

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Since the interface is minimal and abstract at first sight, you can play a game to start learning about it. It's all in the web browser.

• Terminus, where you will find the best-drawn pony

But at some point, you gotta dive in. There is another game, you will install it and play it in the CLI on your own laptop.

• Command Line Mystery

And then there's the good ol' practice.

• https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line

Git & GitHub

• Learn git
• Can you believe you're in the thick of it all along? This repository was created for git/GitHub portion of the HTML/CSS module at CUNY-J. Follow step 0 to step 5 as you wish: https://github.com/jueyang/know-your-tools

So you made a website -- release it into the wild

You will learn about hosting a free site on GitHub, using gh-pages, and domain name stuff.

• http://makethisinanhour.com/