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Multiple CSS courses - which one should I choose?

I'm a bit confused as to what CSS course I should pick?

I'm currently practising writing web scrapers and wanted to know HTML and CSS (and potentially some javascript) to better understand the pages I was testing scraping.

I've just finished the HTML (deep dive?) course here: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/html which was great. However I'm not sure what course for CSS i should pick next: There seems to be several How to build a website - (covers CSS and HTML) CSS basics CSS beyond the basics CSS foundations

Any recommendations? (note I also plan to build a site with Django afterwards so whatever CSS (or other front end courses) that would also help with that).

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

I'd say go with CSS Basics, only if you haven't yet started Foundations.

Basics is a lot more up to date. But if you to into the Beyond the Basics course, that has some videos from the Foundations course. However if you look at the teachers notes for the videos in that course Guil has all the up to date information on browser support for the CSS features taught.

Y B
Y B
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Y B
Y B
14,136 Points

Thanks that's just what I was looking for. I had a quick look at the How to build a website course but the pace seem pretty slow - so I'll start with CSS basics.

Thanks.

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

You're very welcome :)

But to add I would finish the How to build* course if only to show something off for your portfolio. The course is designed for absolute beginners though which is why the pacing is quite slow. That said, it's absolutely perfect for getting a solid refresher in how to make a good portfolio site. :-)

Mitchell Springer
Mitchell Springer
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Mitchell Springer
Mitchell Springer
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I'd say either start with CSS basics or CSS foundations (although I don't really know how they differ). But if you want to do more HTML with CSS, then I'd do the building the webpage. I just finished that course and it was pretty good.