Coding. For me coding is like math to others, I just can’t seem to «get it». It doesn’t work as I want it to and even with the help of others, it still doesn’t work. I’ve dread this activity for most of the week, not giving myself any favors there. Coding to me is so frustrating I can actually feel my head slowly explode and tears of exhaustion pressing be hide my eye every time I launch or use live view, only to see that it looks NOTHING like how I image.
Activity
Take one of the wire-frames from previous Learning Activities and re-create in actual HTML and CSS. This will help you understand the importance between the design and the programming phase and how they work together. Don’t stress if you can’t get everything right, just do as much as you can.
This is the wire-frame I wanted to convert to code. A simple double column feed, top navigation, some test, some pictures and a calendar.
I use Brackes for writing code, it’s a simple program and very handy as it suggest tags as you write. And it doesn’t crash my laptop as Dreamweaver tends to do after a while. It’s been a while since last time I did any coding, where do I start? D:
Honestly, I hate repeating myself and write the same thing over and over and over and over again, can’t stand it! And for future projects I most make up a template with all the essentials, I simply have not the bother to even begin writing as it is right now.
As for the actual coding I use W3school for every step in the process and freefrontend for snassy blocks and CSS, tho copying from previous design will effect your own CSS, and as a new developer I reckon building from scratch so your don’t have to look through foreign code.
Left side we got HTML, right side CSS. The HTML went fine, I copied a calendar input from freefrontend.com and a navigator from W3school. It looked like it should, not that great, but I hoped some CSS could help me. Most of the CSS is from the calendar input and I didn’t realize how this would effect the rest of the code. When I finally remembered to link my style sheet and launched, I had to laugh, but it really caught my whole coding experience in a very symbolic angry, frustrating thunder and lighting.
Forward Focus
-I need to find interest in coding.
– Print out cheat sheets and paste them on the walls.
sources
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_topnav.asp
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