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On the evening of Tuesday, December 6^th, the second half of GDI Ottawa’s Intro to HTML and CSS workshop took place - and as you can see in the pic below, everyone looks absorbed in their code!

As one of the assistants for the workshop, I had a great time and found it to be an interesting experience. If you’re a developer who likes helping people learn, I think you might enjoy assisting with or leading a similar class (see this earlier post.)

Seeing people walk through the process of building a web page from scratch, and troubleshooting when they ran into problems, reminded me of when I first began dabbling with HTML and CSS many years ago. I liked meeting the students - who came into the class with varying levels of prior experience, but were all friendly and curious about code. I credit this to instructor Suzan Hill’s teaching style, which was clear enough for the almost complete beginners in the class, while students looking for more information were able to ask the assistants questions in detail.

For everyone who attended the workshop, I’ve included a few links below to resources you can use to keep sharpening those HTML and CSS skills. 

Hexadecimal Colour Codes

CSS Properties Reference

Tips about using images

Web-safe font combinations

Online intro to HTML/CSS guide

Liz Allen is a computer science student at Carleton University. She tweets about technology and life at @liz_codes