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Prior to taking this course I had no knowledge of html. Creating websites was something I was interested in but I never took the time to learn it. I did have a little bit of coding experience. I learned a little bit of java on my own. I also am taking computer programming this semester which helped with understanding and reading the code.

I would explain this course to someone else as an intro to html and css as well as an intro to coding. I think this course is a great way to get into coding because you learn the basic rules of coding and i feel that html is a good starter language to learn.

One thing I'm happy that I learned is the external style sheets. While using both html and css is great because of the many benefits that css can add to a webpage, it can become confusing. Using an external spreadsheet makes the code a lot neater because you can seperate the html from the css. Another thing I have learned so far is css in general. From practicing css I am now able to turn a bland webpage into something that is actually appealing.

While I now know how to create a website, I think the most useful skill I am learning is to adapt to a completely new language. Before I started this course I was curious about how difficult it would be to learn multiple languages at once. After sometime I found that it is useful to know more languages because I feel it makes it easier understanding the code as well as catching syntax errors and things like that. I will use all of the things I learned for html like techniques and apply them to future languages that I will learn.

Overall I feel that for the most part things have been pretty smooth for writing html. One issue i do remember having was linking the external style sheet. The main issue I had was the name I had for the css was different from the name I had for referring to my css in my html code. I was able to solve this by going through the notes.

The most useful resource I have been using is W3schools. This is a great website because they cover many different languages not just html. I have also been using it for visual basic. They are really good at explaining things and they also show pictures step by step. I will definitely continue using it throughout this course as well as when I learn more languages in the future.

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