HTML 5 - Not understanding course

Question

Hey,

I'm very new to HTML and Sololearn and am starting to run into difficulties understanding the lessons.

I've started the basic HTML course and had a go at building my first code as a practice. I thought I was starting to understand the basics a bit and have moved to the HTML 5 section and suddenly feel very lost and am not understanding anything.

Should I be learning other courses alongside this such as javascript and CSS in order to understand HTML 5?

I was planning to move onto this later on but I feel like i'm missing something that I'm maybe supposed to know already?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hey Katie,

I would recommend sticking with HTML, I know as you get further some of the things covered get more difficult but experiment working with them in the code playground. CSS also pairs really nicely with HTML so it might be worth a try to work through the two of them little bits at a time. The reality is doing the tutorial for a language is a good way to quickly teach yourself the features of the language, but unless you actively play around with them it can be difficult to remeber everything you've learned. Try not to get discouraged and if there is any specific features that you are struggling to understand just post a question here on the discussion board 👍

Hopefully this helps!

Answer 2

this is a feeling i can relate to. when i first started html5 (almost done, now), i felt confused. html5 is an improved version of its predecessors, so the html5 course gives you an overview of its features which can be used and shorthands many lines of code of html4 which were troublesome. to me, html5 is the most important to know - and rather than using css while learning this, it actually helps you with it when making a website for example. this would be the same case with css3 and html -- its best to be up to date, and i choose html5 to finish first before starting any other language to make sure i have a good grip of the course, then i would try css, then js. everything will be easier to understand and falls into place along the way. i wish you the best of luck which whatever you choose to do. ^_^