10 min · Free
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What you need, what you will make, and how to learn on a phone or a laptop.
You do not need a new computer to begin. A browser, a way to type, and an afternoon you can protect are enough.
This track ends with a market-price list — a single page that shows names and prices the way a stall or a small shop would. You will understand enough HTML, CSS and JavaScript to change it yourself.
What you need
- A phone, tablet, or laptop with a current browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge).
- A place to type code. On a laptop, VS Code is fine. On a phone, a notes app plus CodePen or a similar playground works for the first lessons.
- Permission to use a little data. We keep examples short so you are not downloading a course platform.
How to use each lesson
- Read it once without coding.
- Type the example yourself. Copying from a video will not teach your hands.
- Change one thing — a colour, a name, a number — and refresh.
- Only then go to the next page.
If a sentence uses a word you do not know, stay on that sentence. The web is not a personality test. It is a set of files talking to a browser.
What this is not
This is not a bootcamp promise and not a job guarantee. It is a way to stop waiting for the perfect course. When you finish, you will have a page you can send to someone on WhatsApp.
If you later want to work with CashPlanet on a live track — Census Lab, Herbarium, Proteme, Virtual Lab, African language speech, or the cultural and historical project — that door is Partnerships. Finish a small page first.
Next: how the web actually moves a page from a machine to yours.