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  • Distributed Version Control : GIT
  • Git is an actively maintained, free and open source, distributed version control system originally developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds (Linux). Distributed version control systems help software development teams collaborate on projects' source code by maintaining a full history of file changes across a decentralized file system. The distributed architecture maintains a full history of all changes in every developer's local working directory, aka repository. Redundancy. Git is flexible. Git works across all platforms, supports branching and tagging as first class citizens and operations within, such as merging or reverting. Open sites such as GitHub or GitLab are fantastic for...

  • HyperText Markup Language : HTML
  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the standard language for web pages and web applications. The language is written into a document that could be made in any type of word processing (i.e. textedit, notes), specialized webcoding application, or sometimes within a browser. That document is then saved on a webserver. A domain directs a visitor to that webserver and their browser renders the code. There is a basic structural semantic for levels of headings, paragraphs, sections, lists, everything. HTML is not meant to include stylization (font types, alignments, borders, everything). Adding that makes coding too unwieldly. The best way to...

  • Cascading Style Sheets : CSS
  • CSS describes how HTML elements are displayed. Because one piece of CSS code can alter the behavior of all of any single HTML element throughout all the pages of one website (or even multiple websites), writing CSS can save loads of time and effort customizing appearances. CSS can add background images or color, borders, change font attributes such as: style, color, and/or typeface, set margins, adjust website sizes for different devices, create image galleries, all sorts of great stuff. This is CSS: selector { declaration: value; } Or from the version of this website dated 2017.2.21: body { font-family: 'courier...