Adding JavaScript Into the Mix
- How is Java Script different from CSS? In what ways? How are they similar?
Java Script adds more ways to style and customize your page. CSS also allows you to style and customize your webpage but Java Script helps make it “jazzier”. CSS can only do so much and leave your page looking like a class early 2000’s webpage but JS can allow you to update content, control multimedia, animate images, and almost anything you can imagine. CSS has its limitations but with JS there is almost know limit.
2. How do you map that many different DOM methods and properties in your mind? How do you describe them to a non-developer?
I kind of imagine the different methods and properties of DOM as a tree on my brain, it does get confusing at times but the more you do it, the more you can keep a clear map and image. To non-developers, I would say to imagine an old VCR player or DVD player. Remember how it had a cord with the red, yellow, and white plugs? And how if you didn’t plug them in with the corresponding outlets on the TV OR if you just plugged in some of them the movie wouldn’t play or you would only get the image with no sound, or a sound with no image? That’s how I imagine the DOM in my head. All the different parts (aka, the red, yellow, and white plugs), work together when “plugged in” to show you the website on your side of the screen (aka the movie playing on the TV screen).
3. What do you find surprising about coding so far? Do you find anything easy? What? Why?
I’m actually surprised how organized coding can be, I always imagined it as a crazy screen of 0’s and 1’s scrolling past the screen, but it’s an organized tree of words and elements that make sense, such as “body”, “header”, and “footer”. I’m not actually finding anything “easy” per say, but I’m always learning something new and enjoying the journey.
4. What’s difficult about coding for you? Why?
I feel like I do get overwhelmed breaking down and wireframing complex web pages. Instead of taking it step by step, I just see the overall picture in my head and get a little too overwhelmed to know where to start, or I tend to get lost as soon as I start. But as long as I take a step back, I can figure it out, it’s also getting easier and easier each class with the help of my classmates and instructors.
5. What’s cool about Event Listeners? Why are they useful and what would you like to learn about them?
An event listener is a procedure in JavaScript that waits for an event to occur, such as hovering your mouse over a button or an image and having some text appear. I think these are cool because they can add some instruction to the user, or even more information about something without taking up more space on the web page. I would like to learn about different types of event listeners people use and more places I can use them.
6. Why are you motivated? Why are you in this class?
I’m motivated by my desire to learn and create, and now that I’ve “dipped my toe into the water” of coding, I want to keep going until I’m completely submerged. I’m in this class to create a future for myself and enter the world of coding.
