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Welcome to the homepage for Trailside's Spring 2026 introduction to web development course!
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<h2>We are doing the personal websites activity on the 23rd!</h2>
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<b>If you don't have permission from your parents, get it!</b>
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<b>If you don't have a github account, read through <a href="week-3-github-pages.html">the bit on Github Pages</a>!</b>
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	If it goes smoothly we'll have enough time for me to teach you how to replicate the "annoy" style used here, as a little incentive for preparedness!
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This page is the source-of-truth for the entire course, so keep it bookmarked and check it often.
There will be no Google Classroom; any information you need will be here, and announcements will be posted via good old fashioned email.
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If you ever have any questions about web development, feel free to email me at <a href="mailto:plupy44@gmail.com">plupy44@gmail.com</a> (bonus if you can figure out how I made that clickable...)
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Some parts of this course are intended to be self-study - you can always ask me for help about these, of course, but I recommend first checking out <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/">W3Schools</a>
and <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/">Khan Academy</a>, because they have some pretty great resources for web development.
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A rolling list of tags we've covered can be found <a href="rolling-tags-list.html">here</a>.
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Hotlink images available <a href="hotlinks.html">HERE</a>.
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<h2>Grading</h2>
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This is a graded course! The weights are as follows:
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<li>Homeworks (14 I think - maybe 13?) - 35% total</li>
<li>Exams (2) - 50% total</li>
<li>Participation Activities - 15% total (this will be pop quizzes and such)</li>
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If you want to know your grades, just email me - I'll also tell you your running grades after each exam.
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Note that your grade doesn't matter too much. The real point of grading is so that <i>I</i> know how well you're doing - you shouldn't really
assign much personal weight to the grades you get; they won't be on any permanent transcripts or anything.
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<h2>Course Schedule</h2>
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TBD. Will post an announcement when this is worked out.
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<h2>Homework</h2>
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	Homework will drop every week on the Wednesday before class, and be due the following Wednesday. Your homework submissions will be entirely
	in website form - you'll be emailing me your HTML files.
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	<li><a href="week-1-homework.html">Week 1 Homework (short, no submission)</a></li>
	<li><a href="week-2-homework.html">Week 2 Homework</a></li>
	<li><a href="week-3-homework.html">Week 3 Homework</a></li>
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<h2>Lecture notes</h2>
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I'll be posting these in advance of lectures, so you can review the material before class.
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	<li>Week 1: <a href="week-1-setup.html">Getting Set Up</a></li>
	<li>Week 2: <a href="week-2-doctypes.html">Doctypes</a>, <a href="week-2-html-head-body.html">The HTML, Head, and Body tags</a>, <a href="week-2-metadata.html">Metadata</a>, <a href="week-2-web-inspect.html">Web Inspector</a></li>
	<li>Week 3: <a href="week-3-gh-pages.html">Github Pages Intro</a>, <a href="week-3-safety.html">Internet Safety</a>, <a href="week-3-link-style.html">Linked Styles</a></li>
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<h2>Generative AI policy</h2>
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Don't use AI to do your assignments. You're here to learn web development, not to learn AI prompting. I will assign a 0 grade to any assignment
that I suspect was written by AI.
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