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Posted by Steve Mitchell
Steve Mitchell
3,372 Points

front-end development syllabus

I am going through the front-end development track and I was wondering why we are jumping from html/css to javascript back to css back to javascript back...

doesn't it make sense to do all the html/css courses first then javascript?

1 Answer

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

HTML, CSS, and JS don't really build off each other. If you had to learn all of HTML including attributes, meta tags, all of the new HTML5 stuff and more before you could learn CSS it would really slow you down. I think it is more important to learn them side by side so you can experiment and actually build things as you learn.

If you know a little HTML, CSS, and JS you can build a basic site that looks okay and has some small user interactions. If you know all of HTML and no CSS or JS your site will have great structure but look horrible and you wont be able to interact with it.