Hello and welcome to this course.

If you are a complete beginner, web development can be challenging —this course  will guide you and provide enough detail for  you to feel comfortable and learn the topics properly.  You should feel at home whether you are a student learning
 web development (on your own or as part of a class), a teacher looking for class materials, a hobbyist,
 or someone who just wants to understand more about  how web technologies work.

The objective of this course is not to take you from "beginner" to "expert" but to take you from "beginner" to "comfortable so you can feel confident to experiment further.

The three technologies every web developer must know are :

HTML : Used to create  content
CSS: Used to present the content
JavaScript : Used to create interaction
These core technologies  are the building blocks of all websites and web based projects. They are collectively are used in front end web development .

Topics include:

• Introduction to basic HTML
• HTML document structure
• Anatomy of HTML element
• Marking up text
• Links
• Using comments and HTML Attributes
• Introduction to  basic CSS
• Ways to apply CSS
• CSS Ruleset
• CSS basic selectors
• Styling multiple elements
• CSS Box model
• Using margin and padding properties
• Changing background color
• CSS Display property
• CSS Font property
• Using google fonts
• Introduction to basic JavaScript
• Where to place JavaScript
• Variables
• Data Types
• Operators
• Operator precedence
• Using Conditionals
• Functions

Ruby  is a modern object oriented programming language, and Ruby on Rails is a popular and  powerful    frameworks  for building web applications. Rails was built using Ruby and makes it much easier to develop web applications with Ruby. Some notable applications have been built using Ruby on Rails: They incude

Basecamp, Twitter, Shopify, Github, LivingSocial, Groupon, Hulu, Airbnb, Yellow Pages to just mention a few.. A google search will reveal much more.. 

We will create a complete blog application from scratch using Rails and in the process build up your skills.

Concepts we will cover while building our blog project include:

• Creating a new rails project
• Updating gems using bundler
• Illustration of MVC architecture
• Starting rails server
• Conditional statements
• Loops
• Creating controllers
• Creating models
• Associating models
• creating views
• Generating models
• Running migrations
• Creating posts
• Editing posts
• Reading posts
• Deleting posts
• Adding links to posts
• Creating comments
• Deleting comments
• Creating controller actions
• Setting up routes
• Create forms
• Using helpers
• Adding resources and automatically generating routes
• Implementing security

-By the end of this practical course you would have developed enough skills to be creative and expand this project or build similar type of projects.