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This first class of the specialization is okay, but there's definitely usability improvements: the closed captioning regularly does not align with the speaker, and she speaks a bit fast. It's frustrating when I'm spending time trying to understand something just because the speaker spoke too fast and swallowed her words. On the plus side most of the closed captioning is correct (I've seen other Coursera classes with poor captioning). I am also disappointed that they talk about accessibility, and then proceed to never use the stuff discussed (like alt text for photos) in any of the later exercises. A small thing, and this might just be me, the summary videos at the end of each section feel pretty pointless because it just basically repeats a syllabus to you, but I guess that's a teaching style. The exercise I messed up the most was the padding size one, I guess check outside resources for that if you're confused (but maybe its just me). Oh there's also a silly bug in one of their exercises where it asks you to add a link to "meta.com", but the tests are looking for "facebook.com" I did learn some familiarity with css and html, so there's that. It isn't a whole lot of coding, but I guess as a beginning class you start somewhere. Hoping the next course is helpful.

Overall I have been satisfied with this course, and I intend to take the next course. I am starting from zero experience in anything tech related, and sometimes I feel like the course uses jargin or dives into concepts that I'm either supposed to already know, or catch on much more quickly. But, luckily (and possibly the point), I can review, re-read/watch content and google questions. I have many times extended my deadlines, and am learning at a slow pace, but that's the beauty of a casual online course like this.

Also, I'm obviously no expert in the field, nor am I a teacher, but sometimes I feel that if this is to teach beginners, providing less info at one time could be beneficial. For example, I understand why they start off explaining how the internet works, but at the same time, its a lot of confusing and complicated information that won't really effect learning how to code. Sometimes less is more.

This course is great for people entering web development or trying to get a refresher. The course material is quick and can become overwhelming at times if you have never done anything web related. This is okay! re watch the videos and take time to research anything that confuses you. Don't go down the framework/library rabbit hole, their are tons of frameworks and libraries out their. Coursera teaches Bootstrap and React (for obvious reasons). Learning these will bring you up to speed with what they do and how they work, once mastery is achieved over them, then you can proceed to learn the next. I cannot stress enough that there is no "Right" framework to use! start with one and move to the next if you wish. Front-End Web Development focus on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, if all of these are learned properly frameworks and libraries will come naturally.