Figuring things out, one line of code at a time.
One of the most challenging things about my coding journey has been balancing it with everything else I have to do. If I had my way, I'd spend all of my time coding and writing, but the reality is that I'm a single mom navigating a pandemic and launching a consultancy. While that last part… Continue reading Day ???: Flexbox
Did a little more reading in HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites" today, but I also wanted to add the new images to the submit page for this project. I intended to do it yesterday, but I needed to restructure the page so that the existing CSS styling rules would apply properly to this… Continue reading Day 13: Pretty Pics
Considering the way this week got away from me, I decided to finish it up with some reading on the basics of CSS. So I went back to "HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites" and did some digging into pseudo-elements, pseudo-classes and attribute selectors. I also realised that I'd been inadvertently using filter:drop-shadow to… Continue reading Day Ten: Pseudo CSS
Finished up basic styling with CSS today. Still not thrilled about the button placement, but I'll sort that out once I dig further into flexbox. Also next up, media query review! Updated code here (though codepen doesn't allow media uploads with its free accounts, so the backgrounds and images won't be visible). Today's progress.
I took yesterday off (because balance is key!) and jumped into CSS review this afternoon with Traversy Media's CSS Crash Course for Beginners. I was pleasantly surprised by how familiar everything was and it wasn't long before I realised that the first set of last years's CSS notes came in part from this same video.… Continue reading Day Seven: CSS Review
Based on what I've read and the podcasts I've been enjoying, it's pretty clear that the one challenge most beginner coders have in common is figuring out where to start.
Part of the problem is that it's pretty tough to know where to start if you don't know where you want to end up, but it's impossible for a newbie to figure that out until they've gotten started. It's an ouroboros of coding confusion and I completely understand why anyone might throw up their hands and walk away before their first console.log('hello world').
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