Week 1 Assignment - OhJia/Coding4Creatives-S17-2 GitHub Wiki

Assignments

Sign ups

• Sign up for a free Github account. Then star this class repository.
• Subscribe to the Google Group.
• If you missed the first class, be sure you have the following installed. Also go over week 1 slides
  • Download Sublime Text 2 for OSX
  • Install Node.js (v6.10.2)
  • Install http-server

Technical

• Finish the Intro to HTML and Intro to CSS sections of Khan Academy Tutorial.
• Using what you learned in these section, create a simple HTML file (using Sublime Text 2) to introduce yourself. And experiment with styling the page with fonts and colors using CSS. Save your HTML and CSS files and drop them into your folder in the class Google Drive here
• Email me ([email protected]) the answer to this question: What is the difference between a server and a client?

Read / watch

• Read and watch the following. Come to the next class with questions, something that you agree/disagree with or were surprised by.
  • What is the internet?
  • HTTP and HTML
  • From traditional to digital - the modern creative director
  • Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham

Resources

• Basic unix commands - Briefly go over. We'll be using the command line for pushing files to Github and running simpleHTTPserver in this class. Nothing too fancy; just the basics. Get familiar, at the very least, with the commands ls, cd, and mkdir.