Dec 13, 2020
The beginning of a Software Developers Journey
This. Is. The. Start
Day 2 Learning:
Austin Coding Academy. On day 2 we mainly focused on Flex and understanding the Box Model Object which is surprisingly simple. The idea that all CSS and HTML is are a bunch of boxes within another box is actually very simple to understand. At times it seems that you forget which box you are in and you begin to have a confused Russian Doll perspective but after taking a few minutes to look back and take an elementary approach, it’s not nearly as bad anymore. I thoroughly have enjoyed the beginning stages and am looking forward to Monday’s class.
PSUEDO Selectors:
Selectors are cool and all, but have you used a PSUEDO SELECTOR? My two favorite and most used are most definitely :hover and :nth-child(). Being able to manipulate the page in CSS really can bring a simple <a> tag to an engaging event for a user. :nth-child() is probably my favorite out of all of them. It makes applying styles to individual elements within the page MUCH easier and thank goodness for whoever implemented that into CSS.
“GoTcHa!”:
In all honesty I haven’t really experienced a GOTCHA moment from what I can recall, what I can recall is the endless frustration I had before class started trying to understand breaking down the page into sections. Wireframing literally has taken my development speed from a few hours to just under an hour for the main portion. It allows me to focus on the details much quicker and have a solid game plan. It may not be the “gotcha” that you speak of but wireframing is definitely a “gotcha back” tool that I’ll never skip over again.
