I’ve had limited experience doing statistics coding in R and database management in SQL for my internships. However, I’d never coded on a webpage in my life. Surprisingly, the HTML coding tutorial was easy to follow, and I understood the directions given. The most challenging part of the tutorial was when I had to put in forms and comment boxes. There are many steps for this process with small details. One missed keystroke would break the entire code, and it was hard to find the small mistake. Overall, I appreciated HTML Dog and Kathrine Jackson’s tutorials for HTML. I am by no means a pro at HTML, but I feel more confident with my skill more than ever.

I had more trouble with CSS coding. Katherine’s tutorial was more helpful than HTML Dog’s CSS tutorial, but she was a little more descriptive in her steps, but CSS coding, in general, was more difficult for me. The tricky part about CSS was that I needed to embed it into the HTML code. I could not get the properties, selectors, and values on HTML Dog to match up with the system on the Pre Tags. This was frustrating because the CSS code itself was simple to follow, but I couldn’t get it to match up with my HTML code.

Listed below are the pictures of my website and code. I need some help with connecting CSS to HTML, so I am open for a quick tutorial. I recently purchased an audible subscription, and I finished three books in three weeks over break. It usually takes me a month to finish one book.

Link to my site

Overall, my first time coding webpage was a positive experience. The coding wasn’t too hard, and the tutorials did a decent job explaining how each code works. These two programs are great introductions in computer languages. I think all college students should have some proficiency in these languages for the same of computational literacy and enhancing the academic experience.