NYU — Spring 2015 / Week 5

Code it up

Housekeeping

• Let’s discuss your projects and our feedback on your projects.

Discussion:

Talking football, and thinking about what data is out there.

Basic HTML and CSS

You don’t necessarily need to know html and CSS to be successful journalist in 2014, but having a good understanding of how it works – and especially how to make or edit small things – will still be useful. Also, considering many of the people hiring you don’t know the difference between basic internet competency and a computer science degree, help keep them fooled as long as possible. (Part of this exercise is stolen/adapted from Code With Me, which has great lessons.)

  1. Make a folder for today’s class on your computer. Inside it, make a file called index.html. Open the file, write your name on it, and save it. Then open it in a web browser, and blamo!

  2. Check out some sample content. Let’s mark it up as a class. You might want to use these docs as a reference.

  3. We’ll style this to look as much like the Onion as possible. Use your inspector!

Advanced

If there’s time, take this recent Upshot article and mark it up on your own. Here is the starter file. You can add links if you’re feeling fancy. Here’s the catch: make it look like a Vox article.

Homework

Re-pitch your project with the feedback you received from your classmates and us. Think focus + small/manageable.