The Third IS Lesson

Computer lessons were always fun during primary schooldays, but not in secondary school. Now, we have to do a lot of homework for IS. Last week, I forgot to put my photo in my IS blog. Luckly, I managed to put it on the eleventh hour. Phew! Last Wednesday, Mr Cheong taught us something new, something I did not know about (I am very bad in computer skills). Besides, he also gave us more homework (hope Mr Cheong will not be angry when he sees it, sorry). What he introduced us was about HTML and worksheet HTML. He showed us the backbone behind a website. I was pretty startled when I saw it. It was very complicated that made my head spin. He also taught us how to create web pages using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

The objectives of the introduction to HTML are as below:
1) To comprehend HTML coding and tags.
2) To know how to add text, images, link to a web page.
3) To build upon students' web knowledge and greater appreciation of how a HTML page is presented on the Internet and the codes that are involved to display the various page elements.
4) To create a functional website (at least 3 pages) using basic HTML and CSS.
5) To be able to embed external media (i.e.images, web 2.0 technologies) into the website.

HTML tags has 3 parts: start tag, content and end tag but some do not have end tag as they have no content. HTML is very complex and it takes a lot of time to learn. So, learning HTML is very difficult. Mr Cheong just explained to us briefly because time was running out and I could not comprehend at all. Mr Cheong told us to watch a movie in Youtube titled "Learn HTML in 10 minutes" because almost everything he wanted to teach is in the movie and it will definitely benefit us. It is also considered very short as HTML takes hours to teach.

It is something like that. If we want to save in HTML format, the file name is either xxx.html or xxx.htm. The homework he gave us was an assignment again. We were allowed to accomplish it in pair. My knowledge about computer is very little so I find the assignment very difficult. My partner is Arthur and I will definitely affect his speed when he is doing the work as I will ask a lot of questions.

I have only scratched the surface of HTML and may be wrong. If I am wrong, please comment nicely.