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INTRO TO
WEB
THINGS

WHAT IS A

Browser?

Browser

A program with a graphical user interface for displaying HTML files, used to navigate the World Wide Web.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla FireFox
​Google Chrome

Apple Safari

WHAT IS A

Website?

Website

A website is a collection of related material that contains text, images, and may also include video, audio or other media.

Media Temple: What is a website? http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/152/What+is+a+website%3F

WHAT IS

HTML?

HTML

HyperText Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.

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<html>
<head>
    <title>This is a Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>This is a Header</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

WHAT IS

CSS?

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language used to descibe the look, feel, and formatting of a markup document (like HTML). 

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/* Main CSS File */

/* ID */
#thisIsAnID {
    border: 1px solid blue;
}


/* Class */
.this-is-a-class {
    color: red;
    background: black;
}


/* Paragraph */
p {
    font-size: 18px;
}

WHAT IS

JavaScript?

JavaScript

JavaScript (JS), an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers

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<script>
<!--
function ss()
{
var ok=confirm('Click "OK" to go to yahoo, "CANCEL" to go to hotmail')
if (ok)
location="http://www.yahoo.com"
else
location="http://www.hotmail.com"
}
//-->
</script>

WHAT IS

DNS?

DNS

The Domain Name System translates human-readable hostnames into IP addresses.

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WHAT IS A

Front End Developer?

Front End Developer

A person who develops the part of a website you see and interact with using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

source

WHAT IS A

Back End Developer?

Back End Developer

A person who develops the way a website uses and stores information using server languages like PHP, Ruby and Python.

source

WHAT IS AN

API?

API

The Application Programming Interface is a way software components can interact with each other to share information.

source

WHAT IS A

UI?

UI

The User Interface is the part of the website that you interact with. This may or maynot contain things like forms, buttons and hyperlinks.

source

WHAT IS

Responsive?

Responsive

Responsive Web Design is a design and development practice where the way a website displays itself is based upon the device viewing it.

source

WHAT IS A

Repo?

Repo

A Repo is short for repository. A repository is where project files are stored that developers often use to collaborate on with each other.

source

QUESTIONS?

AWiT: Intro to Web Things

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