Coding Foundations

Master all the coding skills you need to create websites, write programs, and tap into databases. You'll learn to create websites from scratch in HTML, get certified in SQL, the international standard language for databases, and specialize in Python, the world's fastest growing programming language. No previous coding experience needed.

What you'll learn

Basic HTML structure

Learn the basic structure of a webpage and discover how you can help a web browser understand your content

Headings, paragraphs

Make your document easy to read and SEO-friendly by adding headings and paragraphs

Text formatting

Add some style to your content with text formatting options like bold, italics, strikethrough, colors, etc.

Elements and attributes

Discover some of the most useful elements and attributes. Use them to create different formats for information

Images

A picture's worth a thousand words. Learn how to add images to your pages

Lists and tables

Display more complicated data using lists and tables

Forms and frames

Use forms to capture user information

Audio and video elements

Bring your pages to life using audio and video elements

Canvas

Make your own artwork by using Canvas to render 2D shapes and patterns

Database structures

Before you learn more about SQL we?ll help you understand how data is stored in a database.

SQL queries

Select, sort and identify data from a database using SQL queries.

Where command and logical conditions

Use where command and logical conditions to filter data.

Aggregation functions

Group data with aggregation functions.

Tables

Create tables by adding, updating and removing data.

Foundational concepts

Master foundational concepts of coding with Python. These are the building blocks for everything else

Strings

Understand how to work with strings to store text data and handle special characters

User inputs

Make your programs interactive by taking and working with user inputs

Variables

Use variables to help your program store data

"If" and "Else" statements

Start shaping the flow and purpose of your program with "if" and "else" conditional statements

Lists

Create and operate with lists to store multiple items into a single variable. This means you can handle more types of data

Functions

Keep your code efficient and manageable using built-in functions and your own custom functions

Getting Started with HTML

Going Deeper with HTML

Using Attributes

Mastering HTML

Getting Started with SQL

Going Deeper with SQL

Query Techniques

Data Analysis

Getting started with Python

Going Deeper with Python

Working with Data

Control Flow

Working with Lists

Functions

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