CS Discoveries 2020-2021

Unit 2

Vocab

Unit 2 - Web Development

Lesson 2: Intro to HTML

  • HTML: Hypertext Markup Language, a language used to create web pages
  • HTML Element: A piece of a website, marked by a start tag and often closed with an end tag
  • HTML Tag: The special set of characters that indicates the start and end of an HTML element and that element's type
  • Website Content: the text and images on a website
  • Website Structure: how the content of a website is organized

Lesson 3: Headings

  • Heading: A title or summary for a document or section of a document.

Lesson 5: Digital Footprint

  • Digital Footprint: The collected information about an individual across multiple websites on the Internet.

Lesson 6: Styling Text with CSS

  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets; a language used to describe how HTML elements should be styled
  • CSS Selector: the part of a CSS rule-set that defines which HTML elements the style should be applied to

Lesson 8: Intellectual Property

  • Copyright: the exclusive legal right to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same

Lesson 16: Sources and Research

  • Relevant: closely connected to a topic
  • Search Engine: A program that searches for items on the World Wide Web.
  • Trustworthy: reliable, honest, and truthful

Lesson 17: CSS Classes

  • CSS Class: An identifier that allows multiple elements in an HTML document to be styled in the same way