Joy Kesten
Treehouse Guest Teacher
San Francisco
Joy is a middle and elementary school teacher. She's taught in LA and San Francisco. When she's not coding or teaching, you can usually find her surfing, hiking, or sailing around the Bay Area. Find her on Twitter @joykesten.
Topics & Specialties
Courses & Workshops I've Taught
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How the Internet Works
Knowing how the technology you use everyday works will make you a more thoughtful and powerful user of technology. In this course we'll explore how the Internet works, by investigating hardware like routers, switches, and servers and the TCP/IP protocols that define how information moves from computer to computer.
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How the Web Works
In order to surf the world wide web, you need an application called a web browser. You're probably familiar with this, you might even be learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to program for the web, but have you ever looked into how it works? In this course, we'll dissect each aspect of how the web works. You'll learn about URLs, domain names, IP addresses, the domain name system, and the HTTP protocol, to be fully prepared for web development or just a more knowledgeable web user.
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Computer Basics
In this course we're going to challenge what it means to be digitally literate by pulling back the curtain of how computers work. By the end of this course you should have a foundational understanding of computers and how we communicate with them.
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Treehouse Club: JavaScript
In the Car Sounds project, you learn how to edit pre-written HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code to add functionality to a web page. Some features you will use are buttons, audio tags, and JavaScript events.
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Treehouse Club: CSS
In this project, you will learn how to edit pre-written code to style a web page for desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. You’ll begin by seeing how to connect a CSS stylesheet to an HTML document. Next you’ll edit some CSS and be exposed to basic CSS structure. Finally, you'll use new tags to make text colorful, choose fonts, upload pictures, and more.
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Treehouse Club: HTML
If you’ve never written a line of code before, this is the place to start! In this project, you’ll learn how to edit pre-written HTML code. By the end of this course, you’ll be more comfortable with using Treehouse’s programming tool Workspaces and have a basic understanding of HTML structure.