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Get started with DEMOLAND and learn how to code websites!
Open chapter ↗DEMOLAND is an open source website template that allows you to distribute editable code demos (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) entirely within your web browser. This project was created by GD with GD to make teaching code easier, without the need for subscribing to any premium code distribution services.
DEMOLAND is a metaphor for a library containing books featuring chapters of demos. Each book is organized via JSON files, and each demo is split up into two HTML files (content and information). A Node.js file generates the homepage as a static document, while the code editor page fetches demos dynamically. The editor is built using CodeMirror 5.
Interested in launching your own DEMOLAND site? Clone the GitHub repository and launch your site via GitHub pages!
CREDITS
DEMOLAND was developed by GD with GD / Gabriel Drozdov. The site features Limkin by Too Much Type and Monaspace by GitHub. Text editors are built using CodeMirror 5. The original DEMOLAND site is available at demoland.gdwithgd.com.
If you launch your own DEMOLAND, I’d appreciate it if you left these credits in. And sent me an email just to share your work!
Welcome to DEMOLAND!
DEMOLAND is an open source website template that allows you to distribute editable code demos (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) entirely within your web browser. By GD with GD.
Introduction to Computation
What is code? What can we use it for? This book is an introduction to coding through the lens of web programming. We’ll cover object-oriented programming using JavaScript, and use HTML and CSS to create visual and interactive outputs.
Week 2
The basics
Introducing the basics of JavaScript: variables, data types, operators, conditionals, and functions.
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Week 3
Answers to Technical 1
Try to answer these questions on your own first! You can access the assignment here.
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Week 3
On a loop
How can we use code to do a whole bunch of things at once? With loops!
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Warm Up: Poem generator
2
Running functions
3
Visualizing results
4
Repeating code with loops
5
Try It Out: “while” loops
6
Try It Out: “while” loops solution
7
Building an interface
8
Different kinds of loops
9
Try It Out: “for” loops
10
Try It Out: “for” loops solution
11
Looping through arrays
12
Looping through arrays
13
Helper functions
14
Getting random values
15
Try It Out: Random numbers
16
Try It Out: Random numbers solution
17
Weekly Challenge: Funky dice
18
Weekly Challenge: Funky dice solution
Week 4
Technical 2
Topics: random numbers, input elements, accessing data from arrays, for/while loops.
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Week 4
Technical 2 Answers
Topics: random numbers, input elements, accessing data from arrays, for/while loops.
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Week 4
Constructing data
We can store, access, and modify data (relatively) easily using arrays and objects.
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The “select” element
2
Template literals
3
Modifying arrays
4
Playing with arrays
5
Modifying strings
6
Getting data from objects
7
Modifying objects
8
Weekly Challenge 1
9
Weekly Challenge 1 Solution
10
Weekly Challenge 2
11
Weekly Challenge 2 Solution
12
Weekly Challenge 3
13
Weekly Challenge 3 Solution
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1990s web design
2
2000s web design
3
flexducks1
4
flexducks2
5
flexducks3
6
flexducks4
7
flexducks5
8
flexducks6
9
flexducks7
10
flexducks-payoff
11
gridcats1
12
gridcats2
13
gridcats3
14
gridcats4
15
gridcats5
16
gridcats-payoff
17
discodogs1
18
discodogs2
19
discodogs3
20
discodogs-payoff
21
portfolio
22
2010s web design exhibit A
23
2010s web design exhibit B
24
2010s web design exhibit C
25
2010s web design exhibit D
Week 9
Design Process
How can you use what we’ve learned so far to create something new?
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Blank slate
2
Filling space
3
Applying styles
4
Making it move
5
Adding interaction
6
Randomizing styles
7
Repeating randomization
8
Typesetting content
9
Typographic hierarchy
10
Typographic hierarchy, flipped
11
Typographic hierarchy, skewed
12
Typographic hierarchy, blurred
13
Typographic hierarchy, randomized
14
Starting from nothing
15
Adding shapes
16
Incorporating new concepts
17
Incorporating new concepts, but fancier
18
Switching to an interactive experience
19
Adding sound
20
Adding sound, randomized
21
Incorporating sound into another design
22
Challenge
23
Variable fonts
24
Variable fonts and JavaScript