Code is just instructions โ and you already know how to give instructions. Zen will show you how to turn your ideas into real things on a screen.
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Before you can build anything, you need to understand what you're actually doing. Spoiler: it's simpler than you think.
"Hey, I'm Zen. I build things with code โ websites, animations, digital art. Before I learned how, I had one question: what even IS this stuff?"
Code is just a set of instructions. That's it. When you tell your little sibling to make a sandwich โ get bread, add peanut butter, put it together โ that's basically code. You're giving step-by-step instructions to make something happen.
Computers are the same. They just follow instructions really, really fast. The language we use to write those instructions for websites is called HTML โ and it's made of something called tags.
Tags are like labels. You wrap them around things to tell the browser what they are. A heading. A paragraph. An image. Once the browser knows what something is, it knows how to show it.
Watch how a tag turns plain text into a real webpage element. Hit Run when you're ready.
Zen is building her first webpage. Put these steps in the right order โ from first to last. Drag them into place!
Zen always starts with a vision. If you could build one thing on the internet โ anything at all โ what would it be? Don't worry about how. Just dream it.
Zen has 4 full lessons, project challenges, and a bonus creative lab waiting for you. Join the crew to unlock everything.