The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Intel are offering free online course on HTML5 Introduction. HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web.
In this six-week course applicants will learn how to build Web sites using HTML5 and basic CSS, directly from W3C, creator of the latest Web standards.
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Length: 6 weeks
Effort: 5-8 hours pw
Subject: Computer Science
Institution: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Intel
Languages: English
Price: Free. Add a Verified Certificate for $49
Session: Self-Paced
Providers’ Details
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. W3C’s goal is for the Web to connect humanity in a way that makes access to knowledge more efficient and equitable.
About This Course
This course was developed in partnership between W3C and Intel®.
Learn the basics of Web design and style to give your Web sites a professional look and feel. The Intel® XDK team and experts from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will guide you step-by-step in how to use the latest Web standards to create a site to be proud of.
During the course, you will learn the basic building blocks of Web design and style – HTML5 and CSS – to give your site a professional look and feel.
By the end of the course, you should understand all the fundamental elements – from headers and links to images and sidebars – and leave having built a basic framework for your own Web site.
Why Take This Course?
This is a free online course. This MOOC will be offered with Video Transcripts in English. Applicants can get a verified certificate.
Learning Outcomes
- Basic concepts of a markup language
- Basic building blocks of Web design and style
- Basics of HTML5 and CSS
- How to write a Web page
Instructors
Dale A. Schouten
Dale received a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, specializing in parallelizing compilers for super-computers.
Anusha Muthiah
Anusha Muthiah is a Technical Consulting Engineer in the Developer Products Division at Intel. Muthiah holds two master’s degrees, MSc in Communication Software & Networks from Nanyang Technological University and MS in Computer Science from Portland State University specializing in the study of programming languages.
Chris Perkins
Chris Perkins is a developer on the Intel XDK engineering team. He has been developing software professionally for over twenty years and has written several web centric commercial applications.
Requirements
None
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