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HTML & WEB DESIGN COURSE
2004–2005 academic year

TEXT FOR COURSE: Web Design In A Nutshell, A Desktop Quick Reference by Jennifer Niederst, second edition, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ISBN 0-596-00196-7, copyright 2001. This text will be referred to as the Weasel book.

Throughout the year, you'll read through most of the Weasel book. To learn to read technical material, you must practice reading technical material! You'll also go through the online course that I developed the first year this course was taught at MHS: HTML & WEB DESIGN COURSE
Sometimes you'll hit a topic on the web course first, and it will be later reinforced in the Weasel book. Sometimes, it will be the other way around. The same material will come at you at different places throughout the course, at varying depths, so you'll be constantly reviewing, reinforcing, practicing, and extending all the concepts.

Most lessons have a mix of reading and questions to answer, and coding exercises. Sometimes I'll talk a bit at the beginning of class; other times I'll just let you get to work on the current lesson and answer individual questions as they arise. This is a very independent course!
There is a quiz over each lesson, part of which will consist of questions that are randomly chosen from each lesson's "question database."

Some lessons will take only one day; others will take an entire week. You may choose to start the lesson before coming to class. Or, you may start it in class. Some people will be able to complete everything in class; others may need to do a significant amount of work outside of class.

If you finish a lesson early, here are things that you may do:

• Work on your web page!
• Study your database questions for the upcoming quiz.
• Help a classmate.
• Re-read stuff in the Weasel book, or read ahead.

• use email (doing so will cause you to lose a point)
• chat (doing so will cause you to lose a point)

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