About a week ago, I attended Hack4Baruch’s first programming workshop. The goal of this workshop was to let everyone, experienced or not, get a feel of what it feels like to code. The languages that they chose that day were HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Now, it all sounds like too much on one plate, but these three languages are the meat and potatoes of a modern website these days. Two of them aren’t even real programming languages!
Peter Zheng, our instructor put a website in the following analogy:
A website is like a building. HTML is the brick and mortar of the building, while CSS is the paint and decorations, and Javascript are the elevators, the electricity, the running water.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the full workshop, because of a work meeting. Yet, the workshop sparked my interest into web development and made me look for other resources I could use to teach myself at my own time. It’s a great skill to carry, and could score you some money when times get tough!
Sounds awesome Carlos! I love the building analogy and i’m looking forward to you helping me score some money in the future. I’m going to hold you to it!