1 00:00:00,330 --> 00:00:01,590 And welcome back. 2 00:00:01,830 --> 00:00:10,500 In the previous video, we went over the basic rules that all HTML files must follow and I kind of glossed 3 00:00:10,500 --> 00:00:19,290 over this DOCTYPE e-mail tag and I did that on purpose because I want you to develop another developer 4 00:00:19,290 --> 00:00:20,460 fundamental concept. 5 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:27,870 And that is the fact that most of the time, as developers, there's so much information out that there's 6 00:00:27,870 --> 00:00:30,560 no way that you can keep all of that in your head. 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,570 And as developers, we must get really, really good at problem solving. 8 00:00:35,580 --> 00:00:42,690 So for the DOCTYPE, let's say if I was working and somebody gives me this file and I say, OK, I got 9 00:00:42,690 --> 00:00:43,710 this, that's good. 10 00:00:43,950 --> 00:00:45,690 But I'm not sure what DOCTYPE is. 11 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:51,420 Well again, we want to get really good at Googling here, and I know it sounds silly, but trust me, 12 00:00:51,450 --> 00:00:57,660 as a developer you're going to be Googling a lot and going to get really, really good at looking for 13 00:00:57,660 --> 00:01:00,520 answers and understanding meanings behind code. 14 00:01:00,870 --> 00:01:08,570 So if I go into DOCTYPE, HTML and we Google that, one of the first things we get is the W3 three school. 15 00:01:08,610 --> 00:01:11,910 And this is a resource that I highly, highly recommend. 16 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:19,750 You'll actually explain what the DOCTYPE is and even show you a demo of what it does. 17 00:01:19,930 --> 00:01:23,560 You can read into this and get more familiar with it. 18 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:31,660 But the general rule and the concept behind DOCTYPE is that DOCTYPE says to the browser, hey, just 19 00:01:31,660 --> 00:01:37,360 a heads up, this file is going to use HTML five and we'll get into what all five is. 20 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:44,140 But right now ASML has evolved from back in the day when Tim Burton initially invented it to where it 21 00:01:44,140 --> 00:01:50,580 is now and it has developed and evolved so that it has a few more tags, it has a few more features. 22 00:01:50,590 --> 00:01:56,080 And this is the way for us to say, hey, browser, we're going to be using Aoshima five. 23 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:02,980 So please make sure that you load the website properly and we'll get into what those new tags are and 24 00:02:02,980 --> 00:02:04,630 some of the new syntaxes. 25 00:02:05,490 --> 00:02:11,790 But again, most likely in your day to day job, you're going to be writing this at the top because 26 00:02:11,790 --> 00:02:13,440 we're writing in all five. 27 00:02:13,830 --> 00:02:17,550 If that ever changes and something new comes along, we might change this. 28 00:02:17,550 --> 00:02:19,230 But DOCTYPE, that's what it is. 29 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,870 But the key concept here is that I really want you to start Googling it any time you see in my videos 30 00:02:24,870 --> 00:02:28,050 something that you don't fully understand or you want to dig a little bit deeper. 31 00:02:28,410 --> 00:02:34,260 You really want to grow those roots of your foundation so that you really understand how the landscape 32 00:02:34,260 --> 00:02:34,530 works. 33 00:02:34,980 --> 00:02:42,180 OK, so I just wanted to get that concept across that as a developer, you really want to understand 34 00:02:42,180 --> 00:02:48,810 how things work and what they mean and you'll come across in your day to day many things that it's very 35 00:02:48,810 --> 00:02:55,050 easy to just on the surface copy and paste or just look at an example and do it without fully understanding 36 00:02:55,050 --> 00:02:55,860 what it does. 37 00:02:56,460 --> 00:03:02,940 But the developers that give really, really good salaries, really good jobs and are considered senior 38 00:03:02,940 --> 00:03:07,470 developers are the ones that fully understand all the meaning behind the things that they do. 39 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:12,350 We're going to be taking that throughout the course and making sure that we develop those fundamentals. 40 00:03:12,660 --> 00:03:18,120 But any time, like I said, you have any questions or you don't understand something fully, I do encourage 41 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:26,130 you to Google and get the answers because there's a ton of free resources out there for you to get fully, 42 00:03:26,250 --> 00:03:28,170 fully comfortable with the topic. 43 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,350 I'll see in the next one by.