What is The Internet Challenges

Basic Challenges

  1. Go to your favorite website.
  2. Right click in the browser, click Save As, then save to your desktop. (If you don't see a Save As option, try right clicking a different part of the page or another site. Some sites override the default right click behavior.)
  3. On your desktop, you should have a newly saved folder and HTML file. Open both - what do you notice?
  4. Back in the browser, hit command + option + i
  5. You are now in the Elements tab of the Chrome Developer Tools. Click through the other tabs and explore!
  6. Back in the Elements tab, make some CSS changes using the Inspect Elements tool. Take a screenshot so you can show your work to a friend!

Stretch Challenges

  1. Go to the Console tab of the Chrome Developer Tools.
  2. Type 4 + 4 in the console, and hit enter.
  3. Now, type hello world - what does that return?
  4. Try it again, but this time with quotes, "hello world". Much better!

Other Stuff

  1. Make sure you have a GitHub account and have successfully pushed your fundamentals project.

  2. Make sure you have the subl command set up so you can open Sublime from your Terminal

    • For Sublime Text 2, type this in your terminal:
    ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
    • For Sublime Text 3, type this in your terminal:
    ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 3.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
    • If you're having problems getting subl set up, try reading this or this.

  3. Read at least one article from The Internet section in the further readings listed below.

  4. Create a directory (folder) somewhere on your computer called wdi-day-1.
  5. Inside that directory, create an index.html file, and write three interesting things you learned or questions you have from the reading you chose in part 3.
  6. Create a new repo on GitHub called wdi-day-1, and push your index.html file to that remote repo.
  7. Think of a "passion project" that you're excited to work on either as one of your formal projects or after the class. Write one paragraph about the project in a passion_project.html file inside wdi-day-1 and push that as well.
  8. Submit the link to your GitHub repo in the homework submission form.