These 12 short intro videos cover the 5 areas of the full stack web app from front-end through server side programming language.
Front End
HTML
: HyperText Markup Language to identify or "markup" content.
CSS
: Cascading Style Sheets to style and layout content.
JavaScript
: To provide interactivity with content and styles.
Back End
Server-Side Language
: To collect form data to store in a database or to query a database to create dynamic web page content.
Database
: Relational database modeling to organize and structure data.
SQL
: Structured Query Language to select, append, update, and delete data from a relational database.
Front End + Back End = Full Stack
In this screencast will summarize the 5 major technologies in the full stack and give you some tips on how to approach your computer science education to maximize your money, minimize your investment of time, and build the foundational skills needed to start a very lucrative career as a web app developer! by
Lisa Friedrichsen
All of her YouTubes can be found at:
http://students.jccc.edu/lisalfri
(I have, so far, only watched the 'Logical Approach' video mentioned above.)
Courses
Free online courses I have found useful
(In alphabetical order not necessarily in the order you should take them.)
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Learn how Javascript works, some basic API's and finally create a mini project.
Online Web Page Creation Help
There are many such pages on the web, these are some of the one's I have run across. If you have any good suggestions I would be glad to add them to the list.
.htaccess Tools
On this site you will find various generators to create .htaccess files for ie hotlink protection, password protection, or blocking of hitbots.
Scrimba lets you interact with the code inside the screencast whenever you want. This is a life-saver when you don’t fully understand the code, and need to play around with it to grasp it. It’s also great for when you simply want to copy a piece of code from the screencast to your local environment.
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