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The HTML Programming Course offers practical training in HTML and CSS for beginners and intermediates. The course is segmented into 5 levels (easy to advanced) that are structured to achieve a continuous progression of learning. It contains altogether 10 programming assignments, two in each level. An assignment takes about 90 to 120 minutes to complete. All material used in the course is real-life teaching material with a proven efficiency in classroom usage. The learners will gradually get familiar with an entire range of HTML and CSS vocabularies necessary to build a website. They will get to know many useful tips and tricks how to design an appealing and functional website with an easy-to-use markup language. Each assignment consists of four parts: it starts with a screenshot of the final website to give the learners an idea of what the result will look like. The website content section provides the textual content used for the programming assignment as well as the images with their file names and dimensions. The programming instructions are given in a numbered list, including 16 to 26 individual instructions per assignment. Finally, the HTML programming code is provided for the learners to check their own work against the original, to tackle programming problems and to correct coding errors. All assignments can be downloaded from the Web with the link and the password included in the book. The download contains the image files that are used in the original programming as well as the text files that allow for the text to be simply copied and pasted. The screenshots can be viewed in large size, and the HTML files can be opened directly in a browser or in an editor. The programming instructions are given in a way that leaves room for individual creative thinking and that trains the learners to independently remember what HTML code to use to achieve the desired result. The programming instructions follow along the progression of the levels. While the first instructions are still comprehensive and detailed as to what step to do, the nature of the instructions advances, too, up to a final free programming assignment that challenges the learners’ creativeness and skills acquired throughout the course. The course begins by introducing the fundamental HTML and CSS elements, such as the basic framework of an HTML file, character encoding and formatting textual data (font color, size, style etc.) with HTML and CSS. It continues progressively up to building a complete website layout with header area, navigation bar, nested containers, merged table rows and columns, and the use of central Cascading Style Sheets and CSS ID selectors to target multiple areas of the Web document. The programming course is suitable for classroom teaching and self-study. The course includes HTML5.