A Deep Dive Into HTML & CSS
This week we got to really dive into writing HTML and adding flair with CSS. In class we got to design a very basic webpage. Mine was simply “Welcome to my site” & “My name is Jessica and I am...
View ArticlePutting it all Together
This week was fun since it was the first time I felt like I was “coding.” We took everything we had recently learned and put it all together in an effort to make a homepage. The beginning of this...
View ArticleA Lesson in Troubleshooting
This week, we got hands-on with HTML and CSS. I was eager to start linking my HTML with CSS and make a fancy website with different colors in the navigation bar and all these intricate designs. In...
View ArticleSomething New
Learning the CSS format and how it actually works was very unique. Although, I did more of the topics that were needed, I still learned a lot. As I said last week, I was still on the edge of...
View ArticleCSS
I found that I was a quick learner when it came to HTML and it was a basic programming language. CSS added a slight complexity but it wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle. With HTML you’re setting a basic...
View ArticleNew Language, Who dis?
This week we began working with CSS on Code Academy and I am pretty excited. I am a very visual person, so I like all projects I work on to be visually pleasing—visuals are actually the first thing I...
View ArticleWelcome to my MySpace
Good Design(?) Well, I made my first “homepage” using HTML and CSS, and I have to admit I was immediately transported back to my parents house in the early 2000s. I never used MySpace, but I loved...
View ArticleEverything Matters!
This week’s assignments and reading point to one significant element in programming and coding for me: “every single thing matters.” It was so evident how a single omission can disorganize and in some...
View ArticleGit In It
CSS was exciting to get to figure out this week. We have been working on HTML and the content of a page. Getting the chance to take our work a step further and develop a design for the content was...
View ArticleGit Gud
This week was interesting. It was good to have the chance to apply all of the HTML and CSS skills we learned from previous lessons. And I love how user friendly the lessons are after we complete them,...
View ArticlePractice, practice, practice!
As I glanced at the syllabus for this week’s assignments, I could not help but my find myself stressing out about creating a prototype homepage. Might I add, this feeling lasted for majority of the...
View ArticleComing together
This week for me represented a big step forward. I was quite nervous to build a prototype homepage from scratch — I was pretty sure I was unprepared to hand-code a full webpage. The assignments for...
View ArticleTalk is cheap. Show me the code.
Although this week has been filled with a lot of hard work, I believe that, through the projects, I was able to learn a lot of valuable information. There is a saying that the only way to become a good...
View ArticleAttempting CSS
For this week’s lessons on Codecademy, I felt more lost and behind than the previous week. It was definitely noticeable the difference in pace, since the lesson had just picked up from where it had...
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