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SuperSimpleDev/html-css-course
Watch the course: https://youtu.be/G3e-cpL7ofc
Companion repo for a YouTube HTML/CSS beginner course, containing exercise solutions and lesson-by-lesson code snapshots. Aimed squarely at people who have never written a line of HTML and want to follow along with the video. Not useful on its own.
The dual-folder structure (exercise solutions + code snapshots) is actually well thought out — you can check your work against the solutions or reset to a known-good state mid-lesson without hunting through git history. The progression is concrete: it builds a YouTube-clone layout across the lessons rather than toy examples, so students end up with something they recognize. Each lesson folder has its own README pointing at what the exercises cover. The 1300 forks suggest it's genuinely used by students, not just starred and forgotten.
The repo is nearly useless without the YouTube video — the README is two sentences and a link, and file names like '7c.html' tell you nothing without the video for context. There are no written explanations, curriculum notes, or text-based alternatives for people who can't or don't want to watch video. Modern HTML/CSS topics that actually trip beginners up — accessibility basics, CSS custom properties, responsive design beyond flexbox/grid fundamentals — don't appear anywhere in the lesson structure. The copy-paste-to-catch-up approach baked into the '2-copy-of-code' folder is a learning crutch that lets students skip understanding what they got wrong.