Learn By Playing: CSS
If you’ve been in the web development world for about 24 hours you’ve probably heard 50 times that the best way to learn web development is by doing: getting your hands dirty and building projects. This is undoubtedly true but what if you could supplement that strategy with something more lightheartedly: learning by playing?...
Niching Down: Don’t Write Bad HTML
To learn web development you need to accumulate several skills. HTML is not only a mandatory, foundational skill for web development, it is also one of the easiest to learn.. until it’s time to niche down. Eventually, once you have a working knowledge of all the basics, it’s time to dive deeper into each skill […]
ELI5: React.js
Explain Like I’m 5 (ELI5) is a subreddit dedicated to putting complex concepts and subjects into laymen terms. It’s multidisciplinary, covering topics in fields from history to science and engineering. Whenever I’m ready to dive into a new, complex topic I like to seek primers first. It gives me a quick glance at all of...
Quick Progress Report: June 13, 2022
This week in my development world I did the following: Finished Codecademy’s Learn PHP course. It was loads of fun and like all programming endeavors, had ups and downs as I learned skills and concepts new to me. Learned git branches – their purpose and how to create new ones, delete old ones, switch between […]
How I Learned Git
Last night, after several frustrating nights of tutorial hell, Git finally clicked for me. I thought I would never get there; the imposter syndrome was eating me alive. It reminded me of high school, when I would stay up all night to finish a project that I should have been working on over the course […]