The day started off with orientation. Since the first two weeks are remote I had orientation through a Google video hangout, which lasted about an hour. The two instructors explained the web fundamentals we're going to cover in these next two weeks, which will prepare us for the full-stacks we'll be covering once we come onsite. We got a syllabus and timelines for completing our assignments. I also had a chance to have a group chat with the other students in the cohort, where we all agreed that we should meet up to form a study group. I hope we can make that happen.
After the hangout I started working on the topic of the day which was HTML, the language of the web, and HTML5, a modern version of it. The topic covered each component of an HTML document (head and body), tags and elements (h1, p, div, etc), parent-child-sibling relations, indentations, forms, and the latest features offered in HTML5. The assignments were to properly indent an html doc, mark the parent-child-sibling relation on each tag, and create a fake blog using everything covered.
I've been using HTML for years so most of this lesson was very familiar. Regardless, I took the time to read through every explanation and watched the videos that covered them. I'm glad I did because it never occurred to me how different HTML5 was from HTML. With HTML5 there are new tags like <header> and <center> that simplify many common instructions.
I feel good so far. This is just a warmup so I shouldn't get too ahead of myself just yet. So for now enjoy the rest of the night.
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