Today was a fun first day. Learned how to create sites and upload them to github.
Day 2 was fun - learning how to edit free templates and exploring more css. Tables and lists. Also mastered creating branches and merging pull requests (my own) into github.
Day 3 hurts my head. I started off the day very excited to learn what twitter bootstrap *actually* was and then started using it. Then, fell on my face. Then, learned how to use grids. Then, learned how to really use inspect element to edit my html/css.
Learned transforms and animations in CSS. Was exhilarating. Learned quite a bit.
Got super frustrated during the evening looking at snippets of code and trying to understand them. Discovered "shorthand" html and scss and gave up around midnight trying to understand code. Trying not to cut/paste without understanding things. Gr.
Things are getting harder, but more awesome. Learned bootstrap today and how to do modal windows and carousels with javascript (a very brief intro).
Realized it's much easier to not bang my head over understanding code. It's better to cut/paste code into jsbin and manipulate it to figure out why things work.
Discovered Codecademy's javascript class - highly recommend!
Made a site for Marvin based on all my learnings this week! Check it out!
Functions will be the death of me. I figured out how to do things like onclick, onblur, find items in the DOM and change things in the DOM. Did not make anything pretty today. Just a bunch of workable pieces.
Today was a lot of fun! I spent 12 hours making THIS GORGEOUS SITE for Mike Annuzzi.
Coming soon!