Part 1
Basics

Let’s get going. Here’s a quick run-down of what we’ll be going through in the Basics section:

• We’ll start by looking at how to install Sass in Task 1, ​Installing Sass​, then we’ll look at how to convert a Sass file to a CSS file in Task 2, ​Compiling Sass into CSS​.

• Check out the next task for how to work with Sass in Task 3, ​Using Sass with Rails​.

• If you’re not familiar with the command line, we’ll look at a great Sass interface in Task 4, ​Avoiding the Command Line: Using Scout​.

• We’ll look at how to do comments in Sass in Task 5, ​Commenting​.

• Then we’re going to look at the idea of scoping and how this is much simpler in Sass. Scoping is introduced in Task 6, ​Selector Scoping​; we expand upon it in Task 7, ​Going Further with Advanced Scoping​.

• Learning how to change the exact CSS produced from your style sheets is covered in Task 8, ​Altering the CSS Output​.

• Then we’ll move on to variables in Task 9, ​Defining Variables​.

• We’ll put the skills we learned about variables to use in Task 10, ​Calculating a Layout​, and Task 11, ​Creating Themes with Advanced Colors​.

• Next we’ll look at how importing can keep your style sheets cleaner and more semantic in Task 12, ​Importing​.

• In the last tasks, we’ll look at a couple of ways you can use importing in Task 13, ​Building a Font Family Library​, and Task 14, ​Resetting CSS​.