Sass: An introduction. A workshop at Port80

I think Port80 was the first conference I went to where I thought. “I should be working in this industry full-time” rather than the night-owl work I was doing at the time.

Jump forward a short 19 months or so and I’m really happy to announce that at Port80 this next year (2014) I’m hosting a half-day workshop on an introduction to Sass.

One May 15th I’ll be presenting a workshop on Sass.

It’d be great to see you there.

Get your tickets now from this handy little link.

What will you learn? 

First we’ll look at CSS pre-processors, why and where you would use them, what they do and how they work. After this we’ll move onto how to use the power of Sass to make your CSS authoring more efficient and hopefully more fun.

Things that will be covered

• Options for installing Sass on your machine
• The two syntaxes, Sass & SCSS
• Variables, mixins and includes
• Extends and placeholders
• Built in functions
• Media queries & nesting
• Compass, Bourbon and other frameworks
• Sass and front-end performance
• And more!

About me

Stu Robson is a front-end developer from the deepest parts of Wiltshire, having been a night-owl freelancer for two years he took the jump into working full-time in January 2013. If he’s not coding he’s tweeting. If he’s not tweeting he’s usually spending time with his partner, Sarah and son, Ethan.

Additional information

Please bring your laptop (hopefully with Sass installed) as this will in part be a practical workshop. Going through building a new project homepage using Sass.