CSCI 101: Intro to Computer Science

Topic 3:   Introduction to HTML Programming

Mon, Jun 16 - Sun, Jun 22, 2025

Activity

1. Read Module 4 in the textbook.
2. Browse the online materials.
3. Make the lab exercises. The labs should help you to learn the HTML basics. Next week you will learn more advanced stuff on HTML.
4. Take the online quiz^* at the bottom of this webpage. The quiz will be not graded, it is just for self-checking purposes.
5. Submit your work on Canvas.

Objectives

• Discuss the evolution and the desirable features of the user interface.
• Explore the composition of WWW pages.
• Provide some basics of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to design web pages.
• Use the illustrated techniques to develop your own web pages.

Internet Resources

Warning: This page contains links to external Web sites. Some of them might be temporarily or permanently off.

• HTML Tutorials:
  • Anatomy of a web page
  • Web Development & Design 101
  • Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  • HTML5 Beginner's Guide
  • Code Review: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming and Web Development
  • HTML5 Cheat Sheet

• Colors and Backgrounds:
  • RGB Color Values
  • HTML colors
  • Custom Backgrounds
  • Texture Archive

• Special effects:
  • Horizontal lines
  • Special symbols

• Icons and Animation:
  • Icons for HTML Developers
  • GIF Animation

• Web Design:
  • Learn About Domains & HTML
  • Composing Good HTML
  • HTML Bad Style Page

Labs

You do not need to submit your lab work on server, it won't be graded.
You can, however, ask the instructor if you are stuck with a lab.

• Lab 4.1
• Lab 4.2
• Lab 4.3
• Lab 4.4
• Lab 4.5

Online Quiz^*

Assignment 3.     Due: Mon, Jun 23

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^(*) The quiz is provided by the Publisher and the authors of the textbook.
It is also available from the supplied CDROM.