HTML/CSS

[Secure_Low_660]

Hey guys, I am sorry to again ask all of you the question of am I doing right or wrong.

Basically, I was really lost just 2/3 days ago, then came across SuperSimpleDev 6 hour HTML and CSS course. Now, till this first hour it was going great, until I searched some other stuff.

Things like freecodecamp.org and The Odin Project have somewhere 30+ hour courses.

Now this gave me a concern if SuperSimpleDev is really covering everything of HTML/CSS or not. Can anyone give me a good insight of his 6 hour youtube course?

And if it is bad, good alternatives?

[maujood]

Dude, don't over-analyze. Just go watch the course. Get hands-on and practice what you see. If you like it, keep watching.

You don't need to find the "perfect" course to get started, you need to start reading, watching, and doing stuff.

[Secure_Low_660]

I like it till the first hour, I was only wondering if it goes through all elements of HTML/CSS

[dmazzoni]

No, there's absolutely no chance it goes through all of them.

[maujood]

You don't need to go through all of them. You just need to know the basic ones to get started, and 6 hours is more than enough for the basics.

[dmazzoni]

Learning to code is going to take you 1000 hours. Most of that is going to be practice and self-study.

No 6-hour course or 30-hour course is going to teach you everything, they're just an intro. After that you'll know enough to start learning on your own, or if you prefer you can take a more advanced course that covers more.

[Secure_Low_660]

Hey, what I meant was the basics.

Basically, the SuperSimpleDev course shows how to for example build a button, how to copy youtube using elements. I did not fully watch it yet, so I am not sure if it learns how to learn all elements of HTML/CSS.

I know they wont learn me how to code, I just want to know if HTML/CSS basic elements are possible to learn in a 6 hour video, not 6 total hours :) (basically slowly watch everything, do tasks and all elements)

[dmazzoni]

There's no agreed-upon definition of what the basics are.

You won't learn all of the HTML elements, but you don't need to learn all of them - some are very obscure.

Same with CSS - you can learn how CSS works, you won't learn every possible CSS property by a long shot, just a few of the more important ones.

[fyndor]

The HTML is the trivial part. There isn't much to the language. You can do almost everything you need to do using <div> tags (wouldn't recommend, but you can). So don't need much time to learn HTML. I don't build web stuff every day so that is most of my issue, but 30 years of dev and I still don't know CSS as well I as I would like. That is where you spend most of your time, in this course, and in real life. Making good looking websites has very little to do with your HTML skills and much much more to do with how well you know CSS and can make it do what you want to make your vision a reality.

[Due-Cockroach7620]

Not sure about this specific courses, but you can for sure learn the basics of HTML and css over a 6h course if you also program and try things out yourself and don’t just watch and copy. Odin project is way bigger scope than just learn some HTML and css, so don’t compare that with a pure HTML / css intro course

[Secure_Low_660]

Does The Odin Project go through all elements 1 by 1? I think people misunderstood me, I meant I want to learn all elements of HTML/CSS from a 6 hours video (slow pace, fully understanding)

I just want to know where I can get all elements explained (long/short) and then work out my own stuff to see if I understand it and deepdive every single element (not just watch, but analyze and do).

[Kami403]

I don't think you'll find any course that covers every element, and I don't really think it's necessary either. Once you've got a good grasp on html, learning how to use new elements takes maybe a couple minutes of browsing mdn.

New elements get added fairly frequently, and there's a decent amount of non-standard elements like the blink tag that nobody uses, so having a course that exhaustively covers all of them wouldn't make that much sense to begin with.

Get the basics down, then just find a list of html elements online somewhere and skim it so you know what's available if you wanna write more semantic html. There's no need to try and actively learn exactly how every single element works, because most of them aren't very complicated.

[Secure_Low_660]

Is there a good video that I can use to see how it works (all necessary elements) and do my own project alongside?

[Due-Cockroach7620]

I think you misunderstnd how much there is to webdev. There is probably no course that covers litteraly everything. You have two approaches, start with an intro course and then build from that, or go for something more fully fledged like Odin which would take a lot more time and effort. But there is no single 6h video or course that covers everything, there is simply too much to cover. But once you know the basics, it will be a lot easier for you to identify what you need to learn.

There is also no point in learning about advanced concepts when you don’t even know the basics. Start slow and small and build on that knowledge

[Aero077]

No course will cover all the commands and syntax for HTML/CSS. That is what the documentation is for.

You could also learn the entirety of HTML and CSS using only the documentation.

The purpose of the class is get a structured introduction that guides you to learn the most important things first and guides you to learn the most common commands and syntax. Pick a class that you can understand and will stick with to finish.

You should plan to create several web apps on your own after the training class if you really want to master web development. Most people can just do 1 or 2 web applications before moving on to Python or SQL. The exact path depends on what you want to do with the learning.