Web development is about more than building a website. It's about creating experiences for a vast audience of people on the Internet. Today's developers help people connect, create, learn, and play, shaping the way the world works.
This Course Explorer segment introduces popular online courses that focus on building modern web applications. The first section includes ones that teach HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. These three technologies combined form the foundation to the web that we experience everyday.
You could think of these technologies through a simple theater metaphor. HTML is the script that the actors memorize, CSS is the costume and stage design that gives the script color and form, and JavaScript is the director.
The text you're reading now, for example, is all HTML. HTML contains the content and defines the structure for where each piece of content should go on a page. The styling—how much padding wraps around the text, what font the text takes on, the color and shape of the buttons on this page—is all CSS. JavaScript, meanwhile, enables all of the other complexities that make the modern web what it is.
When you click or tap the "save" button (the one with the little heart icon next to it) next to any of the courses you see here, JavaScript is behind most of what happens immediately after. It updates some data stored in your browser, modifies the styling of the button so it turns pinkish-red, and pings our server, which in turn makes a note that you've saved this course. When you pull up your saved courses, it's again JavaScript that does the work of retrieving the list and it to you.
The sections following "HTML, CSS, and JavaScript" cover popular frameworks and tools that many developers use today to create powerful, modern, apps. These are the same technologies that underlie a lot of popular apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
React and Vue are two popular frontend frameworks that make it easier to build rich and interactive user interfaces. Node, Flask, and Ruby on Rails on the other hand provide the structure that apps need to handle user requests, store and retrieve data off a server, perform computations, and return responses. SQL and MongoDB, on the other hand, are popular databases that make it possible for apps to quickly store and retrieve huge amounts of data.
In the course of learning web development, you'll find that some tools are better than others for any given project. In fact, this Course Explorer captures only a small slice of the web development universe. You'll discover more along the way. When you do, be sure to search for courses on those at OpenCourser.
Happy coding!
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Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Intro to HTML and CSS
Introduction to HTML5
Introduction to HTML, CSS & JavaScript Programming
HTML, CSS and JavaScript
HTML for Educators
Introduction to HTML, CSS and JavaScript Programming
Learning HTML5 Game Development
Advanced HTML5 Game Development
HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals
React - The Complete Guide 2024 (incl. React Router & Redux)
Learning Full-Stack JavaScript Development: MongoDB, Node, and React
Building Applications with React 17 and Redux
React Native
React & Redux
React Router and Redux
React and Flux for Angular Developers
React VR: Interactive Multimedia
Practice React Component Rendering
React Router Basics
Vue.js: Getting Started
Practice Vue.js List Rendering
Practice Vue.js Templating
Vue.js Basics
Animating a Landscape with VUE
Business Analyst Nanodegree
NodeJS - The Complete Guide (MVC, REST APIs, GraphQL, Deno)
Learning Full-Stack JavaScript Development: MongoDB, Node, and React
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree
Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree
Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree
Smarter Chatbots with Node-RED and Watson AI
Advanced Node.js 12
Node.js Essential Training
Introduction to NodeJS
Flask Basics
Build a Social Network with Flask
Python Flask for Beginners: Build a CRUD web app using Flask
Learning Flask
Building Web APIs with Flask
Flask REST API
Practice Input and Output in Ruby
Installing a Rails 5 Development Environment on Mac
Ruby on Rails 5 Basics
Practice Ruby Numeric Types
Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber
Installing a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in OS X
Building Ruby Web Apps with Rack
Active Record Associations in Rails
Test-driven Rails with RSpec, Capybara, and Cucumber
Creating Static Pages in Rails
Oracle Database 12c SQL Certified Associate 1Z0-071
SQL Server 2012: Designing Database Solutions
MySQL Indexing for Performance
Managing Big Data with MySQL
SQL Server Integration Services
NoSQL systems
MySQL Fundamentals Part 2
Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing
SQL Server: Developer and DBA Collaboration
Big Data Analysis: Hive, Spark SQL, DataFrames and GraphFrames
Oracle Database 12c SQL Certified Associate 1Z0-071
SQL Server 2012: Designing Database Solutions
MySQL Indexing for Performance
Managing Big Data with MySQL
SQL Server Integration Services
NoSQL systems
MySQL Fundamentals Part 2
Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing
SQL Server: Developer and DBA Collaboration
Big Data Analysis: Hive, Spark SQL, DataFrames and GraphFrames
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